2026 Penghu Music Festival

About The Entry

Taking "Penghu's local legends and historical lore" as its design starting point, the 2026 Penghu Music Festival transforms the Guanyin Temple Recreation Area into a walkable island narrative. Fourteen thematic lantern areas link together the legend of the Hujing Sunken City, the Tshiō-hái torchlight fishing culture, and the basalt landscapes. Through large-scale light installations, kinetic art, and light projections, the project infuses local memory with a vibrant nighttime expression.

The entrance offers a whimsical prelude: a lighthouse and an octopus musician, with giant kinetic tentacles extending into a walkable corridor of light. "Resonance of the Waves" translates the crashing waves and cavernous echoes of the Fenggui Cave into cascading layers of light, allowing sound and illumination to jointly depict the coastline's rhythmic breathing. Meanwhile, the building's exterior walls serve as projection surfaces, capturing the basalt imagery and allowing the existing space to unfold on a different scale of viewing.

Through the color, flow, and spatial layering of light, the design guides visitors to read Penghu as they walk, pause, and interact. By interweaving natural landscapes and living culture into the nighttime tour route, light becomes a narrative language for local stories, allowing island memories to continuously endure within contemporary viewing experiences. "Island Legend" uses 360-degree rotating lights to echo the navigation function of a lighthouse, giving the entrance imagery a dynamic visual rhythm. "Intertidal Flavors" depicts the nocturnal scenery of residents harvesting with the tides through reflections of the moon, silhouettes of Tshiō-hái harvesters, and flowing water patterns. "Seafood Music Box" transforms the local tradition of pounding dried fish into an interactive mechanism—when visitors touch the wooden mallet, the Spanish mackerel randomly rises and falls along with the soundtrack, allowing local memory to be re-experienced through motion and sound.

Upon stepping onto the "Island Starlight Stage," visitors can also wear special effects glasses to see points of light transform into musical notes or hearts. These diverse modes of viewing and participation give each story its own distinct lighting expression.