"Finale" from 'Music for a Story-Telling' and 'Zone'

Written in 1991 / Recorded in 1991 and 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/or works for a students’ theatrical project called Zone. This tune was written solely for the latter occasion.

The theatrical project initially began with gathering random ideas for the performance and I wrote some original tunes in accordance with the basic story-line provided by the director, who was my close friend at that time. Writing of the tunes and the demo recordings completed within three days on late October 1991 and through this intensive creation, I developed my own version of the story-line for a certain extent. Meanwhile, the director developed his own version in a different way and he refused to use some portions of my original works nor my version of story-line. Finale was never used in the performance at all.

A few years later, I decided to re-use the things I wrote for Zone by re-writing the entire story-line based on my version mentioned above. Finale was also re-recorded but almost no modification was made to the new version, except for a tiny change made in the ending bit. More importantly, by applying the proper story-line stemmed from the original inspiration, the seminal flow of the composition became clearer - the decline of the old value, represented by Suetrea, the Poet's theme, being gradually taken over by the new value, represented by Khoros of the crowd under the influence of Kelp, the Intruder.

Actual footage filmed at the original performance of Zone is featured in this video at the transitional phase of the values mentioned above. The actor, who played the role of 'The Poet' appears from 1:45 and chaotic celebration sequence soon after the assassination scene follows. Musically, the Poet's theme played by the piano, which fades out in the transitional phase, and Khoros's them played by the organ, which fades in during the transition, are deliberately written in inharmonious keys. Visually, I also added the actual footage of 'finale' sequence from the original performance so that this video could play the role of 'finale' for both playlists; Zone and Music for a Story-Telling.