Space-Moving Theme (from 'Zone')

Written and Recorded in 1991

This tune was written for a students’ theatrical performance called Zone, to which I was deeply involved during the autumn of 1991. In its initial phase, we started off with gathering random ideas for the project and I wrote some original tunes in accordance with the basic scheme provided by the director, who was my close friend at that time. One of the impressive ideas suggested from the director was that the theatrical performance takes place in several 'zones' and when it comes to shifting from one zone to another, the performers have to make strange moves because the laws of gravity are different between inside the zones and the outside space. Given such a unique explanation, I tried to create background music that would meet the requirement for this particular scene and in doing so, I tried the effect of rests inserted between successive notes for snare drum, in order to make the flow of music unpredictable. The melody I wrote for this experimental work was designed to re-appear in the later part of the performance; the assassination scene.

The demo version featured in this video was actually played as background sound-effect in the original students' performance and the footage of the actors' performance in that scene is also presented in this video, though they are not designed to synchronise here.