Drum roll in Taiwan
(WorldNews Music)

Sound - among other vital aspects - helps a space become a place. Would Yellowstone National Park be as much a natural wonder without the gurgling and sputtering of the mud pots, or the hissing that gives way to an ominous rumble as the Old Faithful geyser erupts? Would a New York minute feel just as hectic without blaring horns and sirens? As a place changes, so does the music. But what happens to repurposed spaces? Like a palimpsest, they bear traces of the old. `You just have to learn how to listen,` says a local friend in Taiwan as I quiz her on the Ten Drum Ciaotou Creative Park. The park in Kaohsiung, a port city in southern Taiwan, sits on the site of a former sugar mill. The...