Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショー by Kaohsiung City Government

Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショー by Kaohsiung City Government is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 金賞 in 舞台芸術・ステージ・スタイル・舞台美術デザイン Competition Category.

金舞台芸術· 2023

Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショー

by Kaohsiung City Government

Client: Kaohsiung City Government

A' Design Award 金賞 Winner in 舞台芸術 Category

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The Design

About Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショー

「千手ライトセーバー」は、24台のロボットアームによって演じられる光と音楽のショーである。六軸アームは、台湾の伝統的な戦太鼓のリズムを基にした音楽に合わせて動き、電子音と精密な照明が組み合わされる。本ショーは完全自動化されており、舞台上にスタッフを必要とせずに稼働する。パフォーマンスエリアは2660×720センチメートルで、配線、照明、機械的な動作経路はあらかじめ計画されている。動作精度は0.008センチメートル以内に保たれている。28日間にわたり、合計1,036回の公演が上演された。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 金賞

Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショーは、まさに素晴らしく傑出した第一級のデザインに授与される、計り知れないほど権威ある評価である A' Design Award 金賞の受賞作品です。金賞の受賞作品は、きわめて革新的で、先見性に富み、きらびやかに輝く創造物であり、デザイナーの天才性、叡智、卓越した技量を映し出しています。Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショーは、最も称賛される、流行を牽引する記念碑的な発明であり、前例のない価値をもたらすことが期待されます。この A' Design Award 金賞を受賞したデザインは、壮観で尊敬されるプロジェクトであり、芸術・科学・デザイン・技術の境界に大きく寄与し、それを前進させます。Thousand Armed Lightsaber 光と音楽のショーは、強い欲求を生み出し、情熱を呼び覚まし、創造性を促し、私たちを引きつけます。

Behind the Design

Press Kit

Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: The show content: With the industrial technology AIoT and the planning and integration of the design team, the automated equipment of the technology factory was transformed into the world's first fantastical music and light show like a thousand-armed Avalokitesvara. Future Prospects: Through the precise use of AIoT to present art performances with humanistic connotations, an avant-garde, all-artificial intelligent art event was created under the planning of venues, styles, and music. With this as the starting point, more different art performances will be presented in the future.
Dimensions & Packaging: The entire exhibition space is 5716cmx1851cm. To present the perfect performance of the Thousand-Armed Lightsaber, the exhibition area took up a space of 2660cmx720cm. In the long-striped stage, the design team preconfigured all the necessary wiring, lighting, mechanical route, and so on. With the proper spacing, the show was able to perform properly when all switches were activated.
Tags: AIoT, ASE Group, Thousand-Armed Lightsaber, Robotic arm, Light exhibition, Kaohsiung City Government, Taiwan Lantern Festival in Kaohsiung.
Production Technology: The six-axis robotic arm provided by the world's leading semiconductor packaging and test manufacturing service company, Sunbeam Group, was matched with highly sophisticated and informative music. The music was arranged and written by a well-known producer in the industry, and the performance was of high quality both mechanically and musically. This project was based on the famous war drum music in Taiwan folk art and created a (light saber drumming) that combines technology, electric music, and traditional art, bringing the dynamics of machinery and the energy of the lightsaber to the utmost.
Design Challenge: The venue of the exhibition is a local lantern festival with the theme of (Light). The mega event gathered various artists and curators to create different interpretations of (light). The challenge of this exhibition was that the robotic arm was provided by the ASE Group, which means that the exhibition was curated based on the precision industry. Therefore, the exhibition required high standards of accuracy and the error rate can only be 0.008 cm, otherwise, the slightest error will affect the components and lead to defects or mission failure.
Research: The design team with a forward-thinking balance between technology and humanity to create a magnificent performance of the (robotic arm). With precise lighting, movements, sounds, and color transformations, the design team achieved an unprecedented performance through the language of AI. As if a new possibility between mechanics and art emerged, the design team made the soft, rhythmic artistic dance present a brilliant performance mechanically and technologically with precise instructions and settings.
Inspiration: The work was derived from the rhythm and aesthetics of art performance, both dance and performance art, which coincides with the speed of the robotic arm. The theme took its inspiration from the lightsaber in the famous science fiction movie "Star Wars", which resulted in a thousand-handed lightsaber performance with the robotic arm as the main character.
Project Duration: The project started in January 2021 and finished in January 2022 in Kaohsiung City.
Operation Flow: A total of 28 consecutive days of performances were planned, and with 37 in one day, a total of 1,036 performances were presented. The show was fully automated with no staff present, except for one day of maintenance due to a power failure. Practically speaking, the (actors) did not complain at all about being tired or having to take time off for sudden illness. In addition, each performance achieved a level of precision and perfection that was almost ideal for the original production.
Team Members: Kaohsiung City Government
Image Credits: Kaohsiung City Government