Project: "Skywinding"__Concept, Music and Audiocontent for a Permanent Installation in the Top Floor of the Shanghai Tower, China

On it's top floor, more than 600 meters above the ground, the Shanghai tower hosts the world's highest culture, music, arts and science space "Summit 632". Lukas Taido was given the honor to be the first person to create music and soundart elements for this permanent audio installation, with it's unique audio system of 260 wave-synthesis driven, seperate loudspeaker channels.

"Skywinding" creates different musical situations and experiences taking place simultaneously at different parts around the "Eye of Shanghai", a large sculpture resting on the tuned mass damper, that reduces the swaying motion of the building. While all elements can never be heard at once, they still all belong to one common composition. Thus, the immersive architectural situation enables the musical composition being shifted away from a strictly chronlogical array to a rather space-determinded order and sequences. The visitors decide by walking around the space, or dwelling at a certain point, what parts of the music they hear at what point.