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, 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 re-workings of a couple of tunes I
wrote for the latter.
The initial recording of the main body of this tune, first
played by the piano then replayed by the strings, didn’t go well due to a
mechanical failure and my incapability at playing the keyboard. Needless to
say, it was failed to be featured in the theatrical performance at that time. In
this re-working, I simply converted the hand written sheet music, note by note,
to a digital programme to run the sequencer. I remember there was a certain
rule set for composing this quasi-classical tune but I cannot recall what it
was. In Music for a Story-Telling,
this tune is used as background theme music for monologues of a character
called Doctor Tarci. The middle part, where the Experiment is depicted with the
audio, was used in the original theatrical performance for enhancing the
actors’ strange moves.
As for the story-telling, viewers are expected to learn that
even someone like Doctor Tarci, a prominent figure in the fictional regime,
does not know a very simple and fundamental fact such as every life has its end
and it takes him conducting this silly Experiment, and a sacrifice of innocent
one’s life, to assure himself that death happens at the end of life.
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