I just finished my flute concert this year in Hsinchu, in a historical remains – the sixth fuel factory, which is built by Japanese during the WWII. The building was later used for KMT army’s stay after the war. However, since KMT has never been able to “recover” mainland China, the solders staying in this building have to build their homes in the factory. “Buldings in the building” is therefore a unique architectural feature of this historical remains.

The solders die away, but their reuse or reconstruction of the building stays. Some scholars discovered this architectural phenomena and suggested to take care of this unique place. National Chiao Tung University proposed a six-years project to maintain and reuse this place, and I had this opportunity to cooperate with the Institute of Applied Art of NCTU, which took responsibility of this project and to give this concert.

In this concert, I invited the flutist for baroque flute, C.H. Chien, to play all flutes in the history together. We played baroque flutes, 8-keys flute, after-Mayer flute, after-Ziegler flute, modern Boehm flute, Schwedler flute, and Schwedler Reform flute, in other words, almost all types of flutes in the history. We also gave small talks in-between the concert. Our goal is to arouse reflection on how we should maintain or reuse such historical objects, flutes or the factory building.

On that day, the weather was very cold and windy. Still, some audience stayed there till the end of the concert. Thank you very much!