First Taipei New Music Festival
第一屆「台北新音樂節」
Source: The Origins of Taiwan’s Independent Music (Verbatim Record of the Night of the Tower of Babel Lecture)
From: Youth Platform [Discover the Power of Change]
In August 1987, just one month after the lifting of martial law, Crystal Records organised the first Taipei New Music Festival. Chen Ming-chang, Wu Pai, Chao Yi-hao, Lin Chiang, Shih Ch’en-lan, Lin Wei-che, and “Black List Workshop” performed for the first time — Taiwan’s first independent music festival, concretely championing indigenised alternative music-making, advocating to “open new musical elements” while also “conveying humanistic meaning.” Through this, Crystal discovered new talents including Wu Chün-lin (Wu Pai), Chen Ming-chang, and Chu Yo-hsin — young people thoroughly out of step with mainstream Mandarin pop who would go on to define the new wave of Taiwan’s local music in the 1990s.
Programme booklet for the 1987 Taipei New Music Festival
Tags
External Links
- The Driving Force behind Taiwan’s Underground Music — Crystal Records’ New Music Path (Music Notes, Lo Yueh-ch’üan)
- “Crystal Records” Approaching Its 30th Anniversary — Unofficial Celebrations in the Works (Blow Music)
- On the Development of Independent Music through Crystal Records (Ho Tung-hung and Chang T’ieh-chih in conversation)
- The Meaningful Trajectory of Taiwan’s Creative Music (Media Digest)