TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan’s iconic tower, Taipei 101, marked the start of 2023 with the country’s most extravagant fireworks display and light show.
Fog and wet weather did not put a damper on this year’s fireworks extravaganza, which featured 16,000 firework shells and lasted over five minutes. Taipei 101 invited a world-class team of specialists from all disciplines to implement this year’s show.
This New Year’s Eve show was organized by experts from the “three golden awards” Golden Horse Award, Golden Melody Awards and Golden Bell Awards. In addition to the fireworks, the display included for the first time a 360 degree digital display, feature beamlights and lasers and was witnessed by an estimated 1 million viewers.
According to Taipei 101, the theme of this year’s celebrations was “Embrace the World, Create Your Dreams.” Light artist Uno Lai (賴雨農) has been hired to direct the show, and team members include video specialist Jason Ling (凌偉倫), as assistant director, composer and songwriter Chen Chien-chi (陳建騏), music, laser light specialist Wu Yu-lin (吳玉麟), and pyrotechnic designer Lee Xiu-chao (李秀超).
This New Year’s Eve performance lasted over five minutes after the countdown and consisted of colorful fireworks from Taiwan and Europe, equipped with the latest low-smoke fireworks technology. In addition, a new T-Pad LED light mesh was used to allow a digital display on all four sides of the building, unlike previous years when it was only visible from one side.
For the first time this year, the show combined beam lights, lasers and other outdoor light effect performances with fireworks and multimedia animations, architectural lighting and original music to create a multi-sensory immersive show.