"The Death" from 'Music for a Story-Telling'

Written in 1991 and 1994 / Recorded in 1991, 1994 and 2013

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 originally written solely for the latter occasion.

The original demo recording for the students' project was used in the climax scene - the assassination of the antagonist - in the performance and that version is also available on YouTube under a title of Assassination Theme (from Zone). When the tune was converted to Music for a Story-Telling, a theme attributed to Kelp, the main character, was added in the middle, partly because of the story's requirement but mostly in order to break the monotonous repetition of the same motif, which was effective as mere background music for a brief theatrical scene but lacked a good structure for an individual composition.

For making this video, I made a new recording so that I could make a subtle change in the chord progression, whilst I also gave a room for the old demos from 1991 and 1994 to be preserved in the final quarter of the video. Footage of the assassination scene from original students' performance is also featured in this video.