Mayday Martha, Ma Shifang, Li Mingdao, and Liang Haoxuan, curator of the Beiliu Permanent Exhibition. (Photo: Courtesy of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei City Government)
Reporter Weng Zihan/Taipei Report
"Sing Our Songs Pop Music Story Exhibition MUSIC, ISLAND, STORIES: POP MUSIC IN TAIWAN" will be officially launched at the Taipei Pop Music Center on September 18, with the participation of curator Leung Ho-hwan and three co-curators Lee Ming-dao, Ma Shifang and Mayday Martha, selecting 111 of the most resonant classic songs in the history of Taiwanese pop music and 1326 precious exhibits full of intimate memories of musicians, such as performance costumes and playing instruments.
▼ This exhibition selects classic songs and 1326 pieces such as performance costumes and playing musical instruments. (Photo: Courtesy of the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei City Government)
The permanent exhibition invited well-known producer Wang Xiwen as the arranger, with the copywriting directed by Lu Jianzhang, to string together 111 songs and 12 audio guides for the exhibition's mix, and invited 14 heavyweight musicians such as Li Zongsheng, the godfather of music, Wen Xia and Wen Xiang, Tao Jingying, Liu Ruoying, the golden melody award for best contribution, Tao Xiaoqing, Chen Qizhen, Zhang Aijia, the mother of folk songs, Mayday Axin, Wang Lihong, and Wu Bai, the king of rock and roll, to record audio guides for each exhibition area, and the English tour was recorded by a new generation of singers 9m88 with OZI.
"Live of Life - Concert" leads the audience into the concert scene, with the large five-sided projection screen of the Nine Palace Matrix with stage lighting design, somatosensory laser and other technologies, showing the immersion experience, recreating the concert scene of four groups of artists such as Mayday, TizzyBac, Brothers True Color and Tian Fuzhen, so that the audience can experience the scene and feel the real touch of the music live performance.
Leaving the concert stage area, the audience can walk into the backstage exhibition area built with the most common Truss stage engineering structure in the backstage of the concert, the exhibition area hangs a well-known concert stage design drawing, the audience can use the mobile phone to scan the wall, with AR-expanded reality technology to get a glimpse of the concert stage design of five groups of artists such as Xiao Jingteng, Wu Bai & China Blue, Lin Youjia, Chen Qizhen and Lu Guangzhong.