The Best Symphony of Lights on Youtube - Hong Kong May 2008

Forty Four buildings in Hong Kong put on a light and sound show every night at 8 P.M. The show consists of colored lights on the outsides of buildings, lasers, spotlights, and fireworks (on special holidays), all synchronized to music. The buildings located on both sides of Victoria Harbour span a distance of 6.5 Km or 4 miles, so there is no one place to see all the buildings at the same time. The best locations for viewing the show are: Kowloon side - upper deck platform between Star Ferry and the Avenue of the Stars, or Island Side - from the waterfront at the Convention Center. The music for the show is played publicly at the above two locations, and on the radio at 103.4 and 106.8 FM. This multiple computer controlled show is 13 min 40 sec long, so this shorter Youtube version has had the building introductions removed, and a couple other segments cut short to make it fit. You've seen the TSO house at christmas; this show is on a much larger scale with more I/O controllers per building than the TSO house. It is nearly one mile across the harbour. This show uses 17 nights of the 55 nights of tripod mounted filming I have done so far. (They added a bunch of new buildings last summer so I had to start filming it all over again.) This show was filmed as late as May 2008. I have been filming this show for nearly three years in order to put up the best show that I can. If you come to Hong Kong for the 2008 Equestrian Olympic events, be sure to catch this amazing show. This is one of the things that makes Hong Kong an outstanding city.

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[VelocityRXB]

This show was the icing on the cake for me at the end of a great tour of China. HK is a amazing city. its clean, classy, easy to navigate, excellent public services and the people are very friendly. A home away from home for UK people. It far surpassed my expectations and I will definetly be going back.

[NikTheCat]

HK is very clean. It makes disney look like a dump.

[VelocityRXB]

A couple of Q's if I may-

1. What happens in the summer months when it is not dark by 8 do they push the start time back?

2. Do they place restrictions on aircraft coming in during this as I noticed some planes follow the route of the water when coming in to land and surely they do not do that when this is on!?

and 3. What is the name of that underground shopping area near the space museum subway? You get back up onto the road and you would never know it was there underneath you!

[y330gary]

1. It is always at 8pm. And in summer, it will always be dark by 8pm, so no worries.

2. Planes don't fly over there when land, however, they do during takeoff sometimes (depending where the aircraft is going). However, by the time the plane reaches that area, the plane is already well-above the buildings. But I believe small aircrafts and helicopters aren't allowed during that time.

3. Sogo, Kownloon

[NikTheCat]

Ah, you already answered the question. thanks

[NikTheCat]

HK is near the equator. There is no much change to the length of the day there. It gets dark around 7:30 in the summer.

[NikTheCat]

Hk is near the equator. There is not much change to the length of the day there. It gets dark around 7:30 in the summer.

I do not know of any airline restrictions. I filmed a helicopter fly above one, and below the other, operating lasers one night.

Space museum: Tsim Sha Tsui I think

[ratodagua]

LONDON & NEW YORK = BORING CITIES!

[lasha1974]

got back home this morning & i miss it already-what a top joint!!!!!!!!

[MrGalt]

It's down to 20 buildings participating now. I don't know what alternate universe you all went to where Hong Kong was clean and filled with friendly people, but I wish I could have gone to that one.

[Satori1800]

Thank you :)

jd

[MyVideoHubOnDell]

Do they hold this everyday?

[mcphersonlinda]

I enjoyed absolutely everything about Hong Kong. It's extrelemly clean and well organized, very exciting, people are friendly and helpful, buildings are magnificient, breathtaking views, great shopping, lots of culture, good food, reasonable prices..... it simply excels at all levels!!

[liandzbergis]

Can I have this as a visualizer for my winamp?

[abhirajOK911]

@VelocityRXB

I agree with you because a man actually left his taxi so that we could hire it!!

REALLY HONGKONG AND ITS PEOPLE ARE SIMPLY AWESOME.

[0Fkhan0]

@ratodagua - Tht is soo true even Note* dont know about the latter though lol London defo is...



[JayTin09]

I am missing HK so much! I used to stay in Nathan Rd in Tsim Sha Tsui...I hope I can go back to Hong Kong!! I love that place!!!

[Adamastorpitaco]

@MrSunnyChen They don't ^^.. even if they don't use it, it's still amazing! Must see!

[ngan87]

hk is so great!