Switzerland - Every seven years the small Swiss monastery town of Einsiedeln turns itself over to a large-scale open-air production of Calderón's
Welttheater. A modern re-work was written for the summer of 2013, and to fully support the scale and complexities of the piece, sound design was again put in the capable hands of award-winning Tom Strebel of Basel's audiopool, using the ubiquitous TiMax2 SoundHub audio localisation matrix system from Out Board.
This year for the first time Strebel also used TiMax Tracker performer-tracking which controlled the TiMax SoundHub delay-matrix in real-time to achieve fully automated vocal localisation across the entire 2,700 capacity audience. Strebel comments, "For me, TiMax is now indispensible for theatre production because of