Timothy X Atack
Sleepdogs
Writer for screen, performance, books, and audio; composer & sound designer for film, TV, stage and radio
Worked on
Studio Residencies 2012: Geiger-Muller Sound System
Supported by a Studio Residency writer, performer and composer Timothy X Atack and musician, sound artist and instrument designer MrUnderwood developed a finite kinetic choir.I write scripts and books, and make music, plus the occasional film now and then. I'm co-founder of Sleepdogs, an interdisciplinary collaboration with fellow studio resident Tanuja Amarasuriya.
Writing includes:
Father Alberto and the Flying Girl (novel, Chatto & Windus) DELAY (stage play, Bristol Old Vic, Nick Hern Books) Babel's Cupid (stage play, runner-up Yale Drama Series prize 2021) Forest 404 (audio drama, BBC Sounds, winner of the WGGB and ARIA awards for best radio drama 2020) Heartworm (stage play, winner of the Bruntwood Prize for playwriting 2017)The Morpeth Carol (audio drama, BBC Radio 4, winner of the Radio Academy award for best drama 2014). I'm also a regular writer of Doctor Who audio adventures for Big Finish.
Composing and sound design for theatre, screen and other media includes:
Scores for BBC Radio and TV, Channel 4 TV, Paramount UK, Bristol Old Vic, Royal Exchange Theatre, Tobacco Factory Theatres; collaborating with Raucous, Neil Bartlett, Selina Thompson, Edgar Wright, Nikesh Shukla, Duncan Speakman, and Nik Partridge among many others. I've been composing sound designer for all Sleepdogs-produced projects to date. I make solo music under the name TXA and I'm in the Bristol bands Angel Tech and North Sea Navigator, producing and co-producing albums by both.
Currently interested in: audio storytelling for new technologies, spaces, and audiences; creative resilience under capitalism; stories about love, ghosts, and hope.
Ask me about: the writer's ambition vs the demands of product; music technology (synths, DAWs, virtual instruments); the emotional properties attached to tech (especially old-school tech.)