Composer’s note When I visited my homeland of Taiwan in the winter of 2016, I received a telephone call from the Ensemble Kontrapunkte of Vienna asking me to tell it immediately what the title of the work it had commissioned from me was to be. A poetic image emerged quite spontaneously: I feel like a migratory bird, fly year after year ten thousand kilometres away from Vienna over the Alps and across Eastern Europe, Arabia, Russia, the Mongolian steppes, the Tibetan plateau, South-East Asia and ...