The Convict's Theme (from 'Zone')

Written and Recorded in 1991

This tune was written for a students’ theatrical performance project 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. In the roughly drafted story,  there was a scene where a convict, who was found guilty in the trial scene set earlier, is brought to a facility for execution. It was also discussed that it should take a wagon for transferring the convict. Since the judicial decision in this story only reflects the decision of the state, I decided to write this theme music for the scene as a variation of the National Anthem of the state, in the parallel minor key.

Along with the National Anthem, this theme for string quartet was played as the background music in the actual performance that took place in December 1991. As you can watch in the video, I played a role of a state officer, who was in charge of transferring the convict from the court to the execution facility and put a headset on the convict's ears as a preparation for the execution.

Additionally, this tune was re-used in my conceptual work titled Music for a Story-telling a few years later, as the intro (and the outro) of a tune called The Wagon.