Taipei City Proposes Taipei Soundscape Project

Source: Taipei Sound Landscape Plan — Musicians Compose MRT Melodies (Cityzine)From: Cityzine
Date: December 21, 2015

Since 2015, the “Taipei Sound Landscape Plan,” jointly promoted by the Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs and the Taipei Metro Bureau, has aimed to use “sound” as a medium to portray the landscape and history of Taipei, allowing the public to “hear” the environment from different angles and create a deeper sense of urban identity. (See Taipei Sound Landscape Plan)

Through the “MRT Sound Landscape” initiative, three components were implemented in succession: softening the alert tones at fare gates, adding transfer and terminal station announcement melodies inside carriages, and inviting musicians to compose station entry music. In 2016, a fourth chapter, the “Station Ambient Music” plan, was launched — creating bespoke ambient music for distinctive MRT stations, attempting to use “sound” to realize the governance concept of music intervening in public space, and reshaping Taipei’s urban character.

 

 

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External Links

• No Time to Watch? Just Listen! Mayor Ko Promotes the Third Phase of the Sound Landscape Plan (ETtoday)
• Taipei Metro Sound Landscape — Station Ambient Music Premieres on December 31 (Central News Agency)
• About Soundscape (Mumu Creative)