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JJ Lin JJ20 World Tour Concert

JJ Lin JJ20 World Tour

JJ20 World Tour marks Singaporean singer JJ Lin’s 20th anniversary in music, celebrating his legacy of 14 albums and countless hits. The two-year tour spans 40 cities with 77 shows, drawing 2.6 million fans. The concert unfolds through five themes Memory, Dream, Universe, Wholeness, and Journey brought to life with two fully automated rotating platforms that bring JJ closer to the audience before aligning into a straight path, symbolizing the Road to JJ20. Continuously evolving, the tour introduced drone performances in late 2023, extending the spectacle beyond the stage and into the sky.

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Zhou Shen 9.29Hz World Tour Concert

Zhou Shen 9.29Hz World Tour

Zhou Shen 9.29Hz World Tour is a concert stage design created for a series of thirty live shows. The main stage measures 79.2 metres wide, 19.2 metres deep and 2.2 metres high, and includes a curved LED screen, a rotating piano stage, performance lifts and a kinetic lighting ceiling. The stage is built from modular flame-retardant components that can be transported and reassembled in different venues. Local cultural elements and audience interaction are included in each show. The modular approach supports reuse and reduces waste.

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Hua Chenyu Mars Concert Sunrise Version Stage

Hua Chenyu Mars Concert

Hua Chenyu Mars Concert is an open air concert stage design created for a large outdoor venue. The layout is arranged in four zones: a main stage 106 meters wide and 28.5 meters high with five levels of performance space, a circular home stage 19 meters in diameter, an extension stage 30 meters long that crosses the audience area, and a circular structure 100 meters in diameter that encloses the whole setting. Mirrored LED screens are combined with movable platforms and mechanical elements. Reflective and transparent materials link the stage with the sunrise landscape.

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2021 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert Stage

2021 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert

Mars Concert is an outdoor concert stage design built on a lawn in Haikou, China. The layout is divided into three parts. The main stage is 25 meters tall, 74 meters wide and 33 meters deep, and takes the form of a treehouse at a Martian base. A smaller home stage measures 18 meters in length and width, with two levels and a total height of 10 meters, and hosts interactive performances. An extension platform 60 meters long and 6 meters wide links the two stages. The sound system is integrated into the stage to serve both near and distant seats.

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Accusefive 2024 SUPER LIVE TOUR Concert

Accusefive 2024 SUPER LIVE TOUR

Accusefive opened their Super Live Tour with a spectacular show under the night sky. As New World played, a stunning 30 second firework display lit up the stage, leading to a breathtaking 90 second firework finale. The seven story high main stage featured a 3D spiral structure, layered with sound, lights, lasers, and visuals, immersing fans in Accusefive's universe. Taking two months, they recreated Quan Qing’s grandpa’s fishing boat, Shun De Hao, steered by the band's mascot Accuse Pig, circled the whole stadium to engage with fans up close.

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Mayday 5525 Live Tour Concert

Mayday 5525 Live Tour

Mayday's 5525 tour celebrates their 25th anniversary with a transformative journey through time and music. Known for evoking personal memories, their concerts explore themes like identity, environment, and humanity. The stage features a 12 meter diameter and five 5 meter 3 dimensional LED spheres, symbolizing the band's spirit and fan connection. This immersive setup merges music and visuals, enhancing emotional impact and artist interaction. This concert isn't just a show; it's a narrative in sound and light, inviting reflection on memories and universal themes.

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David Tao Soul Power II Concert

David Tao Soul Power II

In 2003, David Tao's Soul Power concert was hailed as legendary. Eleven years later, Soul Power II was conceived to recapture the essence of live music and the artist's soul. More than a remake or upgrade, Soul Power II is driven by a profound understanding of the artist's unique spirit, aiming to craft a heartfelt experience for modern concert goers. Inspired by the Tower of Babel, the stage features an 8 meter turntable with eight columns, using love to connect people globally. The flexible segments and dynamic stage design create an immersive, powerful musical journey.

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Carbon Silicon Singularity Stage Design

Carbon Silicon Singularity

The work explores the moment when organic life encounters emerging silicon based forms of existence, including AI and algorithmic systems. Using the Singularity as a conceptual metaphor, it examines how this convergence reshapes ideas of life, identity, and ontology. Rather than presenting silicon as a replacement for the organic, the work emphasizes hybridization, coexistence, and mutual influence. At its core, it stages an evolving dialogue between carbon and silicon, imagining a speculative future shaped by new possibilities of embodiment.

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Thousand Armed Lightsaber Artificial Intelligence

Thousand Armed Lightsaber

Thousand Armed Lightsaber is a light and music show performed by twenty-four robotic arms. The six-axis arms move in time with music based on traditional Taiwanese war drum rhythms, combined with electronic sound and precise lighting. The show is fully automated and runs without staff on the stage. The performance area measures 2660 by 720 centimeters, with wiring, lighting and mechanical paths planned in advance. Movement accuracy is held within 0.008 centimeters. A total of 1,036 performances were presented over 28 days.

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Maritime Glow Exhibition Events

Maritime Glow

Maritime Glow is a large-scale outdoor performing arts production created for a lantern festival in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. The Love River acts as the stage and the open sky serves as the curtain. Projection technology transforms the stage into a boat, and 400 lights present 381 meters of visual images. Local opera, Taiwanese rock, Hakka music, indigenous songs, musical theatre, traditional martial arts and dance are combined in one show. More than 600 performers from eleven groups and two schools take part. The story presents the past, present and future of Kaohsiung.

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2023 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert Stage

2023 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert

The 2023 Hua Chenyu Mars Concert is a concert stage design based on the theme of the Martian Coordinate System. The four-sided stage forms a rectangular prism measuring 47.5 meters long, 27.5 meters wide and 22 meters high, with a total hanging weight of over 200 tons. Sequentially arranged luminous panels and strip-shaped mirror devices at the top and bottom resemble scales on a coordinate system. Ten custom lighting fixtures span 30 meters, and 12 adjustable lighting columns represent the months of a year. The structure balances transparency with load-bearing capacity.

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Frost and Flame Performaning Art and Stage Design

Frost and Flame

The color palette transitions from cool to warm tones, representing the tragic impacts of global warming. However, the re-freezing of the text credit at the conclusion of the performance provides a glimmer of hope, symbolizing the potential power of humanity's collective efforts. This unique fusion of traditional ink with environmental awareness elevates classical ink painting into the sphere of contemporary art, highlighting its vitality while integrating with the body language of modern dance in the digital era.

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