Written in 1991 / Recorded in 1994
Basically, as far as the music concerns,
my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-Telling is a
collection of re-workings of my past compositions written in 1991; either works
I wrote for a band that couldn’t exist long enough to perform it, and works for
a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole works I wrote
for them at the actual performance. Basic ideas for this simple tune were all
taken from the former’s acoustic section in the middle. For re-writing, I newly
added the programmed percussion part in order to enhance exotic atmosphere that
would fit in to the purpose of this piece within the conceptual work.
As viewers can clearly see in the video,
this tune features exchanging of words between a couple of characters; a female
character called Mikhi and a male character called Kelp. From the contents of
their conversation, viewers could easily guess that the couple is chatting to each
other soon after they made love. With a photo of forest placed in the beginning
and closing of the video, it would not be difficult to guess that it must have
taken place somewhere in the forest, both of them are possibly still naked and
they must be whispering for most likely they are cuddling each other…
It would be also not difficult to make a
stark contrast between male and female characters’ perceptions on having sex
from words assigned to each of them. Mikhi tries to see things positively in
various ways, largely due to her infatuation, whilst Kelp shows his
indifference by repeating seemingly plausible but mostly meaningless words.
Seemingly, her infatuation comes from excitement for looking forward to
building a new personal relationship while he’s rather exhausted than seeing
for the future because his purpose – to have sex with this particular girl –
already belongs to his past.
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