Transdemonium Parc Asterix, Paris
Alinka Greasley
Following the development of Total Audio Works for award-winning theatre installation Hotel Gasten, Liseberg Park, Gotenberg (1999), I was commissioned to devise a sonic environment ‘float through’ water drama, Oxygenarium, Parc Asterix. 

In most thematic applications audiences are pulsed through score at predetermined intervals synchronise with actors, animatronics and drama. Sound music effects triggered in isolation no thread between sequences

TAW is designed as 48 points looped audio, each broadcast simultaneously discretely mapped strategically positioned speakers. This uniquely enables an audience explore their own time, auditioning sound if travelling symphony – freedom move forwards or backwards - drama unfolding more natural organic form.

TAW developed using digital samples (as generative games) but sequenced non-linear-through-score.

In 2002, Asterix asked me look proposed ride-through experience inspired by Carolingian Renaissance. One sequence required power prayer be symbolised aspiring higher spiritual order manifested physically rising upwards 30m spiral. 

Conventional multi-point immersive audio confines listeners exploring fields within single horizontal plane. There instances where artists configure gallery installations vertical, none has through-scored music. 

The challenge create soundtrack multiple harmonic Gregorian phrases that rendered sensation journeying choral work made up layers strata. 
The final combined principals TAW, reconfigured vertical form, five separate surround systems stacked 6m levels. Transdemonium first public scored surround.
The use original composed configuration. Based on C14 scriptoria composer Guillaume de Marchant