JourneyLIVE is a GRAMMY®-nominated, audience-interactive, immersive video game symphony where live musicians respond to real-time gameplay.
You wake alone, surrounded by miles of burning, sprawling desert, and soon discover the looming mountaintop that is your goal. Faced with rolling sand dunes, age-old ruins, caves and howling winds, your passage will not be an easy one. A cloaked avatar, you travel and explore this ancient, mysterious world alone, or with a stranger you meet along the way. While the goal is to get to the mountaintop,the experience is the discovery of who you are, the story of this place, and your purpose.
Visconti Arts teams up with composer/conductor Austin Wintory to present an original,interactive live performance of his GRAMMY®-nominated score to the video game Journey. Described as "the most beautiful game of its time" by IGN, critics have called Journey one of gaming's crowning achievements. It is the fastest selling game to date on the Playstation Network.
Never the same each time it is played, Journey LIVE is an interactive parable, an anonymous online adventure to experience a person’s life passage and their intersections with others. In this unprecedented collaboration, live musicians respond to the actions of game players in real time on stage (90 minutes in performance).
Mirroring the breathtaking synergy between score and action in this transformative video game experience,this arrangement is constructed in short trigger points that allow the ensemble to be responsive to the actions of live game players in real time. In live performance, players join the musicians, with the game's stunning visuals projected live on screen, as the ensemble seamlessly underscores their journey. Each performance is just as unique as each potential audience.
For a distillation of all that is promising, unique, and breathtaking in the video game experience—an experience in which gameplay, art, and music weave together on an almost operatic level—Journey LIVE is an orchestral event like no other.
“Journey is an interactive parable, an anonymous online adventure to experience a person’s life passage and their intersections with others.”