
The annual achievement announcement concert "Our Youth Time" was staged at the National Concert Hall
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The Ministry of Culture has promoted the NSO "Time Cabaret" to re-interpret the songs familiar to the elders with symphony in 2024. In 2025, AI technology was introduced to transform the paintings of the elders into dynamic images on the stage. This year, it further integrates AI music generation, real-time interaction with drawings and art-assisted therapy applications.
With the performance of the NSYO National Youth Symphony Orchestra musicians, the memories of the elders have also become a flowing scenery on the stage. (Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)
[Reporter Ling Meixue/Report from Taipei] The Ministry of Culture promotes the "Action Plan for the Technology Industry for the Elderly" and today (10th) together with the NSO National Symphony Orchestra announced the application results of technology and art for the elderly, showing how digital technology can lower the threshold for the elderly to participate in artistic creation. In addition to AI music generation, it also combines real-time interactive streaming of drawings with generative AI animation. The official launch will be a concert in the evening to present "Our Youth Time".
The Ministry of Culture and NSO jointly announced the results of the application of technology and art for the elderly. Representatives from the Ministry of Culture, the Ministry of Health and Welfare and other units, concert performers, and senior citizens invited to participate took a group photo. (Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)
The Ministry of Culture said that in 2024, NSO launched the "Time Cabaret" to re-interpret the songs familiar to the elders with symphony. In 2025, AI technology was introduced to transform the elders' paintings into dynamic images on the stage. This year, it further combined AI music generation, real-time interaction with drawings and art-assisted therapy applications to continue to deepen the integration of digital technology and artistic and cultural activities for the elderly.
"Wanxiu Laundry" Zhang Ruifu, who once released an ASMR album to record the daily sounds of a laundry, walked into the National Concert Hall with Grandpa Wanji to experience creating music through percussion instruments and AI technology. (Photo by reporter Ling Meixue)
The annual achievement presentation concert "Our Youth Time" brings the life stories of the elders and the application achievements of science and technology to the stage of the National Concert Hall. The content is based on the five elders’ growth, love, leaving home and family memories. Through songs spanning different eras such as "Night in Shanghai", "Another Kind of Nostalgia", "Treasure Island Mambo" and "Wandering"; AI technology is also used to convert the paintings of elders from various arts and cultural experience activities into dynamic images, and paired with live symphony performances, the memories of the elders become a flowing scenery on the stage.
The performance was conducted by NSO co-conductor Chen Weizhong, who led the NSO and National Youth Symphony Orchestra (NSYO) musicians, as well as singers Lin Ziyin, Zhou Dingwei and children's singer Cai Yunzhen, to present a stage experience that integrates music, images and technology.

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