Rome Design Awards Platinum

2025

WAKIN CHAU THE YOUNGER ME CONCERTS TOUR 3.0

Entrant Company

B'IN LIVE CO., LTD.

Category

Lighting Design - Entertainment Lighting

Client's Name

STARS FERRY MUSIC PRODUCTION LTD.

Country / Region

Taiwan

Wakin Chau’s “The Younger Me Concert Tour 3.0” marks a milestone in his 40-year music career, guiding audiences aboard a musical vessel to revisit their own life journeys. With a fully upgraded stage narrative, lighting plays a central role in shaping emotion, pacing, and spatial depth.

In this 3.0 edition, lighting is conceived as the primary narrator, depicting four decades of emotional memory through beams and color. At times, the lighting extends visual content, linking imagery with fluid transitions; at other times, it becomes the stage protagonist, with beam shapes, directions, and rhythms reflecting the subtle textures of Chau’s voice. Beams act like lighthouses guiding the voyage, symbolizing both the journey and the music that carries the audience’s hearts.

Lighting also drives the spatial storytelling. Fixtures above the audience extend the stage environment throughout the venue, immersing every spectator in a shared ocean of light. To enhance accessibility and audience participation, LED sticks are programmed with zone-based control, producing flowing patterns that evolve with the music. The audience is no longer merely observing the stage—they become part of the performance, co-creating the journey.

At the center of the stage, over forty individually controllable kinetic spheres form a three-dimensional visual language resembling ocean buoys. Through precise choreography, they create depth, parallax, and dynamic tension. Unlike overwhelming full-LED visuals, the spheres provide a purer, more breathing visual rhythm, naturally drawing focus back to the performance’s core: the singer and the songs.

For the audience, this 3.0 tour is a collective voyage across forty years of memory. Light, like the tide, brings music and audience together into a single ocean, allowing everyone to rediscover the spark of those early moments and, within this wondrous journey, see their own “Younger Me”—the inner youth who continues to sail forward.

Credits

Creative Director
HaoChe Shih
Lighting Designer
YuFan Liu
Lighting Designer
YuinChi Tok
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