A Million Tiny Glitches
a dream-pop odyssey
Conceived by Tanuja Amarasuriya & Timothy X Atack
A Million Tiny Glitches is an original dream-pop musical. It's the story of three friends: one dies, one retreats to a city of his own imagination, and one tries to make it all better. A strange and emotional dream quest through the fractured landscape of grief.
A Million Tiny Glitches has grown from our personal experiences of grief – vivid and mysterious, you feel it in your heart and your gut. We believe pop songs can hold emotion very directly without laying down rules of engagement, so we thought we’d make an electronic musical that goes deep and feels modern; that embraces sadness without being sombre. Something that's musically influenced by artists like Bjork, ANOHNI, Nine Inch Nails and FKA Twigs; and narratively inspired by storytellers like Haruki Murakami, Jim Jarmusch and China Mieville.
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Listen / buy on Bandcamp:
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or watch a lyric film for the song Breaking Up:
We did some R&D on the show back in 2017 and would love to find co-producers to support a full production. Here's a short video promo we made as part of that R&D, which gives some insight into the ideas behind the piece.
Cast & Credits (R&D)
Performed by Kayla Meikle, Simon Mokhele, Zoe West, Timothy X Atack, Madeline Shann
Songs and words by Timothy X Atack Directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya Movement Direction by Coral Messam Musician collaborator Elena Pena Video documentation by Paul Blakemore Production photography by Jack Offord
Produced by MAYK. Seed commissioned by the New Wolsey Theatre and Bristol Old Vic Ferment. Financially supported by Arts Council England. Thanks also to Pulse Festival, Ovalhouse London and Trinity Arts Bristol. Developed in residence at The Brunswick Club and at Watershed's Pervasive Media Studio.
