Assassination Theme (from 'Zone') 1991

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. The basic structure for this tune came from another track I wrote for the project called Talk Session Theme, which was rejected by the director along with an associated idea I have provided with the tune. Ironically, despite he was reluctant to set the assassination scene as the climax of the performance, he could not resist the pressure from other participants so that the scene was left to be performed.

The original demo recording of this track was played as background music in the scene and the melody written in the whole tone scale gave a cue for the lighting technician to change the colour, from green to red, for informing the actors the timing of the bang at the end of the recording.

For making this video, I tried to insert a roaring, performed by an actor who played the role of the assassin, as natural as possible within the flow of music. I also made an effort to synchronise the movement of actors in order to reconstruct the original theatrical performance with better audio quality.