a song sketch made for a TV project in development

Don't you love a hazy sky come early morning
Like Hollywood got cigarette burned
Don't you love the open road forever calling
With nothing on the horizon
The way it always should be

I'll be your designated drive
We can leave anytime you like
I'll be your designated drive
We can leave anytime anytime

I've got the run of the road
That's just a matter of fact
We don't need GPS no
We got the homing instinct
We got the stereo sound
We got the bass in the back
And it's never too early for that baby

I'll be your designated drive
We can leave anytime you like
I'll be your designated drive
We can leave anytime anytime
I'll be your designated drive
The headlights the moon at midnight
I'll be your designated drive
We can blow this party
Anytime

designatedDrive - demo

My version of the Doctor Who theme tune, for no reason at all.

Most likely remixes to follow. Cos it's fun.

Read about it, if you like, here: http://sleepdogs.org/2015/09/doctor-version/

DW2015TXA

A demo compiled from recording detritus. 

Broadwood grand piano, Casio PT-30, 12 string with only 6 strings, fridge. 

Drumsounds recorded by angeltech at the Victoria Rooms Bristol and ICA, London. Stretchy vocal noise recorded at Realworld by Ben Findlay and Claire Lewis.

I Remain Your Instrument

Heavily based on Shostakovich's 7th Symphony. Written for immersive theatre show Ice Road by Raucous. Bristol, October 2017. 

The play's action takes place during the siege of Leningrad, and this music accompanied a sequence where one of the characters begins to 'conduct' a bombing raid. The sound of bombers at the start has been made from double basses and cellos.

Ice Road : Bomb Run

A version of Blake/Parry's Jerusalem (obvs).  Made for Chris Goode and Company's stage adaptation of Derek Jarman's film Jubilee. Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, November 2017.

This went through various iterations, at first sounding a bit like Nine Inch Nails, until I started doing a (bad) ANOHNI impersonation and everything seemed to click (sometimes literally).

JerusalemTXA

Written for the Soundtrack of The Beard, a BBC Radio 4 afternoon play with a script also by me. September 2017.

This music accompanied weird things happening in an airport. It had Amara Karan and Amelia Bullmore talking over the top of it, wonderfully.

Airport (Ending)

A new mix of my version of the Doctor Who theme. For the story of the previous version, and further unforgivably geeky details about this one: http://sleepdogs.org/2015/09/doctor-version/

DOCTOR WHO / TXA / 2018

A faulty torch song first written in 2006 and recorded at:

BBC Bristol 2007 (wax cylinders) 
J&J Studios 2010 (drums, piano, cylinder effects) by Jim Barr
Rosebery Avenue 2014 (modified piano, cello, brass, iPad, SH101, vinyl)
Brunswick Club 2017 (vocals)

Love on the nightshift
A chart on the wall
You better work your hours in full
It’s the nightshift

The fuse in the basement
The wires on the roof
You’ve got the whole night long to prove
You can hack it

What is wrong with you?
No-one loves the nightshift
Quite the way that you do
(Oh my goodness)

What is wrong with you?
Blame it on the nightshift
(God knows I do)

Love on the nightshift
Your heart on the floor
You better pick it up before
Someone docks you

She’s going postal
He’s going home
We’re all alone, my friend
We’re all alone in the end

What is wrong with you?
No-one loves the nightshift
Quite the way that you do
(Call this number)

What is wrong with you?
Blame it on the nightshift
God knows I do

And when the dawn cracks wise
– that’s if we’re alive –
We’ll both raise a glass
To the night

Love On The Nightshift

Made from forgotten sounds dusted off from a dark recess of the laptop. Files processed so many times I don't know where they're from any more. Plus some birds.

(Hard Drive) Sea Shanty

Audio sketchbook from Timothy X Atack www.timatack.co.uk www.sleepdogs.org www.angeltech.co.uk

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