Written and Recorded in 1991 and 1994 / Remixed in 2012
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, or works for
a students’ theatrical project that failed to feature the whole works I wrote
for them when it was performed. This tune consists of pieces from both
occasions; brief intro from the former and the main body from the latter.
For presenting the story efficiently, I
thought it would be convenient to feature a form of news reading at the
beginning of the Part Three of Music for
a Story-Telling. In doing so, I thought it would be crucial for a news
programme to have a suitable theme music to begin with, so I picked up a piece
from the said past work and arranged it in this way. It was a bit fun to
arrange my own work for a specific purpose like this.
The main body of this piece is merely a repetition
of two chords and, needless to say, this piece is not written for listening
entertainment. For making this video, I used a couple of different takes I
recorded in both occasion; the demo recording of Music of a Story-Telling in 1994 and its initial attempt for the
students’ theatrical project in 1991. The earlier demo was meant to be used as
background music for an idea I have suggested, which I called The Talk Session.
The idea was dismissed by the director and it never performed nor even
rehearsed, but since the tune was originally meant to accommodate spontaneous conversations,
when I came up to the idea of news reading, I thought this might be the right
tune to re-work on.
Noise effects were all somehow created
and recorded by myself in 1994, for a different purpose.
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