Nuit Blanche: supermarket music, human voices, a market after dark

PX Mart’s supermarket music is getting an unlikely dance floor. Chung-Han Yao’s Midnight Music Box remixes it into electronic tracks beside the old Yuanshan carousel. Sensors read people’s movement and change the music and lights. Your shopping soundtrack has acquired a nightlife.

Further south, Chi-Wei Lin’s Tape Music makes a score travel through people. Participants pass a long woven strip, reading and sounding its instructions in turn. Without a conductor or shared clock, delays, misreadings and the group’s adjustments produce the structure. The October 31 programme includes a 19:00–19:20 session at Tatung University’s Shan-Chih Hall.

At Qingguang Market, Wei-Yi Chen, Ssu-Han Wang and Qi-Fang Huang begin Searching for Nagashi with a game: look for a song, a sound, a memory. The performance moves through the market’s people and sounds, asking what remains when a place changes. Its short sessions start at 19:00, 20:00 and 21:00.

Start around 17:00 at Yuanshan MRT for the carousel, leave the park around 18:15, and reach Shan-Chih Hall before 19:00. Then head to Qingguang. Catch the 20:00 market performance and eat afterwards on neighbouring Shuangcheng Street; or have dinner first and choose 21:00. This is our suggested order within the larger festival.