Taipei Music Center: Music is Life, Living in Music
Taipei Music Center (TMC) opened on 1 April 2020, when the world was being hit hard by the consequences of the pandemic. Against the hardship presented, TMC grows and thrives by the day. TMC is an all-rounded industry compound. This multi-purpose architecture has numerous functions, such as providing performance spaces, preserving cultural records, and stimulating industry development.
Music belongs to everyone, which is why TMC was built to be local while international, welcoming, and friendly to all. TMC is where Taiwanese artists find profound support for their production, performances, and talent cultivation. It is also the most familiar corner for the general public to get in touch with the music culture and enjoy music performances.
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Adjacency to the Future – Concert Hall
The Concert Hall is a medium-sized auditorium at TMC, specially designed for live music performances. Built as an angular-shaped shell with five stories above ground, it can accommodate about 5,000 people, a solution to the lack of similarly sized venues in Taiwan. In order to provide musicians with an optimised place to perform at, TMC is equipped with four main infrastructure facilities: A large elevator platform, a wide-ranging mother truss, a large-sized sound insulation wall, and the renowned L-Acoustics K2 System, all contributing to a convenient working environment and a high-quality stage. TMC fosters and supports diversified forms of music performances, including concerts, musicals, talk shows, and more. The Concert Hall aims to shape the future by providing a blank canvas for emerging musicians to experiment and explore and by encouraging artists of all music genres to expand their audience pool as well as to enrich their creativity.
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Tributes to the Future – Cultural Cube
The six-story Cultural Cube is the first exhibition hall in Taiwan that acts as a carrier of the past and a bridge to the future, cataloging the history of Mandopop. It has curated a permanent exhibition and several special exhibitions, with the former integrating an infrared audio guide and interactive facilities, taking visitors on a journey to learn about how Mandopop has evolved and developed over the decades. TMC will continue bringing in outstanding arts and music related exhibits from the international community, so that fans in Taiwan can be more in line with the global cultural context and generate more profound feelings toward arts and music.
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Strides into the Future – Creative Hub
The post-production phase of music-making is equally critical as executing a live performance. With the hope to fully support the music ecosystem, TMC connects the upstream, midstream, and downstream of the industry chain, providing resources while cultivating a new generation of talents as its priority.
The luminous crystalline structure of the Creative Hub symbolises the vitality of the music industry. This multi-functional area consists of various spaces and professional facilities, including four live houses which accommodate between 200 and 1,600 people. Also present are music classrooms, a rehearsal studio, offices, a recording studio, and a music-themed restaurant. The Creative Hub acts as a cradle for musical talents and appeals to the public for its peripheral food and retail services.
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Take Live House D for a vivid example: with a 200-people capacity, it comes with a giant LED screen, a movable stage, along with basic truss structures. Live House D is positioned as a base for cultivating talents, receiving up-to-date knowledge, and providing the industry with a relatively small gig venue to test new ideas.
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Outdoor Fun
The Plaza is an outdoor space located between the Creative Hub and the Cultural Cube. Spanning up to 100 meters long and 35 meters wide, it can accommodate up to 3000 visitors. The Plaza is connected to the Concert Hall through a bypass, providing a gathering place for the public to rest and freshen up. It is also an ideal venue for diverse activities such as creative markets, music vendors and street performances to take place, enhancing TMC’s public-oriented essence while bringing people closer.
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Photo by Taipei Music Center (TMC)
Exploring Taipei Music Center
TMC is a hub of inspiration where artists and talents deliver extraordinary performances. It provides not only industry professionals with an arena to showcase their works and bestow young creators to have the chance to engage with arts through music, but also a sanctuary for music lovers to own ultimate live experiences. Here, music enthusiasts and fellow citizens are gathered at a variety of networking events to connect, to create, to interact, and to reach further and dream bigger, manifesting our goal of “Music is Life, Living in Music.”
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TMC’s Store – Photo from La Vie