"Heroes of Noir"

"Film Noir may be characterized by the use of black and white, the use of low key lighting, close-ups, abstract angles and deep-focus of shooting. In both artistic movements, we are faced with characters that have a dark, evil side to them.  The narrative in Film Noir is often delivered through the medium of flashbacks, and a large portion of the plot takes place at night, predominantly when it is raining. Finally, the most common thematic plot points are the detective, the femme fatal, and an investigation into a crime; a crime that tends to be a murder."

"Film Noir emerged in the 1940’s in America, heavily influenced by German Expressionism. Common tropes that appear in both Film Noir and Expressionism are the repetitive crime drama, and romances with the sense of skepticism and paranoia. These are underpinned by the use of sharp lines and deep shadows to accentuate the sets."

From: The Third Man_Analysis, by Rafaella Siagkri
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Photo image: from the movie, The Third Man, by Carol Reed(1949), the spiral staircase scene.

Media resource: https://ksamaarchvis.wordpress.com/2018/03/28/the-third-man_analysis/
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Roland synthesizers used on this track, as follows:

○ SH-2000 ─ lead voice
○ SH-5 ─ bass tone
○ CR-78 ─ rhythm percussion
○ System 100 ─ sound effects
○ CSQ-100 ─ programed sequence of SH-5

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"Lifework is music: a dream for the development of electronic musical instruments." 

─  Ikutarō Kakehashi ─ (1930 - 2017) Inventor, engineer, educator, founded Roland Corporation (1972), Japan.
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○ This Soundcloud page is an electronic music archive dedicated to Ikutaro Kakehashi and his life work. A recognition to the many electronic musical instruments that Mr. Kakehashi and the Roland Corporation had invented, their dedicated work created a revolution in music making technology.

○ Note: all of the electronic music instruments used in the making of this music were from the Roland Corporation; they were used exclusively in producing the timbre and sound-effects of the music. These Roland synthesizers included both early analog and modern digital synthesizer models, such as, the SH-5, System 100, Jupiter 4, or the Alpha-Juno, JV-1080 and the JD-800, among several others.

○ Any other music equipment of a different manufacturer's name served only to control pitch and articulation of the various Roland synthesizers.

○ Final sound modification came from off-board effects units, mainly reverb, delay and chorus, and these were all Roland equipment, except for only a few.

* (Note: in the studio photo images the Korg Prophecy keyboard functioned only as a secondary midi controller and the Synthesizers.com sequential controller, model Q960, was used for processing only control-voltage, trigger and gate information; they provided no audio output)

○ The music compositions were all improvised, live recordings, including earlier works that were recorded using a multi-track midi software: Opcode's Studio Vision.

○  These music works  are unedited audio tracks that are available for download as high fidelity wave files.

♪ All rights reserved © Blair M. Cleveland, SOCAN member 1998.
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Film score and soundtrack works:

○ Cable TV Documentary: "The Steam Dream", 1992 ─  Maclean-Hunter Ltd.

○ Spoken Book: "David Cole's Story", 1997 

○ Feature Film: "Famous Dead People", 1999 / https://www.imdb.com/name/nm4958025/?ref_=ttfc_fc_cr7

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Heroes of Noir

Roland Sound Studio