The Trial (from ‘Music for a Story-Telling’)

Written in 1991 and 1993 / 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 it at its actual performance. This tune consists of a well-balanced mixture of re-arranged bits from the both occasions. The intro and verse section for Wella are both taken from the former, whilst verse section for the Judge and closing section are from the later. Since I took the arpeggio part by the acoustic guitar an important element of this tune, I newly wrote a line for the bass guitar to take a solo in the middle. 

As for the function of this tune in the story, this one is assigned to depict the scene of a criminal trial. Viewers are expected to sympathise for Wella, the defendant, for being tried unfairly to be found guilty of nothing. According to the sentence delivered by the Judge, he is now facing to be brain washed as the punishment for found guilty of, in defendant’s words, ‘having been realized that he had been deprived of his own freedom.’ Though both Wella and the Judge are minor characters in the entire story, the author intended to present a stark contrast between the regime and general interests of its citizens through this dialogue, which is set in relatively early stage of the conceptual work for establishing the framework of the story.