Poesy (Literary Works - Part ii)

 Written and Recorded in 1991

The original idea for writing this conceptual work divided into three parts came from my personal experience of a day in early November, 1990. In the initial stage, the work was supposed to be divided into four parts and this Part ii was assigned to describe a dream I had before I woke up on that day. Despite all four parts were composed and demo recorded in the first few months of 1991, I soon recognised some failures within the conceptual work as a whole.
When I gave another try for re-organising the entire work three years later, I decided to change the theme and to make it divided into three parts. Though this second attempt didn't go quite well, the new concept coined at that stage contributed to making a series of videos that could showcase the work finally titled Literary Works.

Under the new concept, the ‘dream I had before I woke up on that day’ has been converted to represent a literary style of poesy. Before the entire structure was fixed, I played a blueprint version of the entire work on the piano in front of the audience. This means that the core elements of the entire work, including ideas assigned to other parts, was largely written as a piano composition. In that sense, Poesy reminds me of the initial mood I have set for the work as a whole and selection of instruments, deliberately excluding the electric guitar, clearly explains what I was aiming at.