GANGSTA' NOIR is influenced by the Film noir genre of cinema and the sound scores that accompanied these films. Film
noir cinema (mostly shot in gloomy grays, blacks and whites) thematically showed the dark and often inhumane side of human
nature. Saturated with cynicism and doomed love, the films emphasized the brutal, unhealthy, seamy, shadowy, dark and sadistic
sides of the human experience. An oppressive atmosphere of menace, pessimism, anxiety - the suspicion that anything can go
wrong - dingy realism, futility, fatalism, defeat and entrapment all contributed to the heavily stylized characteristics of Film Noir
Recording Notes
For this one work I edited together the best takes of the two orchestra recordings of my composition.