Daft Punk ~ TRON: Legacy (2010)

Daft Punk ~ TRON: Legacy (2010)

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

Music by Daft Punk

Daft Punk: Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter

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The French electronic group Daft Punk composed the film score of Tron: Legacy, which features over 24 tracks. The score was arranged and orchestrated by Joseph Trapanese. Jason Bentley served as the film's music supervisor. An electronic music fan, Kosinski stated that to replicate the innovative electronic Tron score by Wendy Carlos "rather than going with a traditional film composer, I wanted to try something fresh and different", adding that "there was a lot of interest from different electronic bands that I follow to work on the film" but he eventually picked Daft Punk. The duo were first contacted by producers in 2007, when Tron: Legacy was still in the early stages of production. Since they were touring at the time, producers were unsuccessful in contacting the group. They were again approached by Kosinski, eventually agreeing to take part in the film a year later. Kosinski added that Daft Punk were huge Tron fans, and that his meeting with them "was almost like they were interviewing me to make sure that I was going to hold up to the Tron legacy". 
The soundtrack started being composed before production had even begun, and is a notable departure from the band's previous works, as Daft Punk puts more emphasis on orchestral elements rather than relying solely on synthesizers. "Synths are a very low level of artificial intelligence," explained member Guy Manuel de Homem-Christo, "whereas you have a Stradivarius that will live for a thousand years. We knew from the start that there was no way that we were going to do this film score with two synthesizers and a drum machine." "Derezzed" was taken from the album and released as its sole single. The album was released on December 3, 2010, and sold 71,000 copies in its first week in the United States. Peaking at number six on the Billboard 200, it eventually acquired a gold certification by the Recording Industry Association of America, denoting shipments of 500,000 copies. A remix album for the soundtrack, titled Tron: Legacy Reconfigured, became available on April 5, 2011 to coincide with the film's home media release.

Audio CD

Original Release Date: December 7, 2010

Label: Walt Disney Records

Genre: Soundtrack, House, Neo-Romantic, Contemporary, Electronic

Format: 2 x CD, Enhanced, Digipack

© 2010 Walt Disney Records (WDR)

with London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Gavin Greenaway

Amazon MP3 exclusive version, with PDF digital booklet and bonus track "Sea of Simulation."

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Album Track listing:

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Exclusive CD 1

1. Overture  |2:28
2. The Grid (Voice Actor: Jeff Bridges)  |1:36
3. The Son of Flynn  |1:35
4. Recognizer  |2:37
5. Armory  |2:02
6. Arena  |1:33
7. Rinzler  |2:17
8. The Game Has Changed  |3:25
09. Outlands  |2:42
10. Adagio for TRON  |4:11
11. Nocturne  |1:41
12. End of Line  |2:36
13. Derezzed  |1:44
14. Fall  |1:22
15. Solar Sailer  |2:42
16. Rectifier  |2:14
17. Disc Wars  |4:11
18. C.L.U.  |4:39
19. Arrival  |2:00
20. Flynn Lives  |3:22
21. TRON: Legacy (End Titles)  |3:17
22. Finale  |4:23
23. Father and Son  |3:12
24. Outlands Part II  |2:53
25. Sea Of Simulation (Amazon Exclusive)  |2:41

Special Edition CD2

1 Encom Part I  |3:53
2 Encom Part II  |2:18
3 Round One  |1:41
4 Castor  |2:19
5 Reflections  |2:42

Total Length: 1:20:18

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Special Edition CD2

Credits:
Arranged by ("adagio For Tron") Joseph Trapanese, Toby Chu
Arranged & Orchestrated by Joseph Trapanese
Art Direction - Steve Gerdes
Bass: Allen Walley, Mary Scully, Paddy Lanngian, Stacey Watton, Steve Mair, Steve McManus
Bassoon: Julie Andrew, Richard Skinner
Cello (Celli): Chris Worsey, Frank Schaefer, Jo Knight, John Heley, Jonathan Williams , Martin Loveday, Paul Kegg, Tony Lewis
Cello (Solo): Anthony Pleeth
Clarinet: Dave Fuest, Nicholas Bucknall, Richard Addison
Conductor (Orchestra): Gavin Greenaway
Contrabassoon: Stephen Maw
Contractor (Orchestra): Jo Buckley
Cor Anglais, Oboe: Jane Marshall
Creative Director (Daft Arts Project): Cédric Hervet
Design: Steve Sterling
Directed by (Of Soundtracks) Desirée Craig-Ramos
Edited by (Music Editor) Salty Boldt
Edited by (Score Editor) David Channing
Engineer (Assistant): Chris Barrett, Lori Castro, Satoshi Noguchi, Tom Bailey
Flute: Anna Noakes, Eliza Marshall
French Horn: Mike Kidd, Nigel Black, Richard Bissill, Roger Montgomery
French Horn, Tuba (Wagner): John Thurgood, Mike Thompson, Philip Eastop, Richard Berry
Harp: Karen Vaughan, Skaila Kanga
Leader (Orchestra): Thomas Bowes
Mastered by Pat Sullivan
Mixed by (Score) Alan Meyerson
Oboe: David Theodore, Matthew Draper
Other (Business/legal Affairs): Scott Hotzman, Sylvia Krask
Other (Daft Arts Project Assistant): Sam Cooper
Other (Music Creative), Other (Marketing): Glen Lajeski
Other (Music Preparation): Booker White
Other (Orchestration Consultant): Bruce Broughton
Other (Project Director For Daft Arts): Paul Hahn
Other (Stufio Music Librarian): Jill Streeter
Other (Technical Advisor For Daft Punk): Daniel Lerner
Percussion: Frank Ricotti, Glynn Matthews, Paul Clarvis, Stephen Henderson
Piano, Celesta: Dave Hartley
Piccolo Flute, Flute: Nina Robertson
Producer: Daft Punk, Mitchell Leib
Producer (Executive): Joseph Kosinski, Sean Bailey
Producer (Music Production Supervisor): Monica Zierhut
Producer, Composed by Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo, Thomas Bangalter
Recorded by (Score) Geoff Foster
Supervised by (Music) Jason Bentley
Timpani: Dominic Hacket, Gary Kettel
Trombone (Bass), Contrabass: Dave Stewart
Trombone (Tenor): Lindsay Shilling, Mike Hext, Richard Edwards
Trumpet: Derek Watkins, Kate Moore, Roberts
Trumpet, Piccolo Flute: John Barclay
Tuba, Other (Cimbasso): Owen Slade
Viola: Andy Parker, Bob Smissen, Bruce White, Don McVay, Edward Vanderspar, Garfield Jackson, Katie Wilkinson, Nick Barr, Pete Lale, Rachel Bolt, Vicci Wardman
Violin: Boguslaw Kostecki, Cathy Thompson, Dai Emmanuel, Dave Woodcock, Debbie Preece, Debbie Widdup, Dermot Crehan, Emlyn Singleton, Everton Nelson, Jim McLeod, John Bradbury, Jonathan Rees, Jonathan Strange, Kathy Gowers, Liz Edwards, Lorraine McAsian, Maciej Rakowski, Mark Berrow, Mike McMenemy, Patrick Kiernan, Peter Hanson, Philippa Ibbotson, Rita Manning, Roger Garland, Rolf Wilson, Sonia Slany, Warren Zielinski

Tron: Legacy is a 2010 American science fiction film released by Walt Disney Pictures. A sequel to the 1982 science fiction film Tron, it is directed by Joseph Kosinski, produced by Tron director Steven Lisberger, and written by Adam Horowitz and Edward Kitsis, based on a story by Horowitz, Kitsis, Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal. The cast includes Tron veterans Jeff Bridges and Bruce Boxleitner, who reprised their roles as Kevin Flynn and Alan Bradley, as well as actors and actresses such as Garrett Hedlund, Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett, Michael Sheen, and James Frain. The story follows Flynn's son Sam (Garrett Hedlund), who responds to a message from his long-lost father and is transported into a virtual reality called the Grid, where Sam, his father, and the algorithm Quorra (Olivia Wilde) stop the malevolent program CLU from invading the human world.

Interests in creating a sequel for Tron arose after the film garnered a cult following. After much speculation, a concerted effort to devise Tron: Legacy began in 2005, when producers hired Klugman and Sternthal as writers for the film. Kosinski was recruited for the directing role two years later. Since he was not optimistic about Walt Disney Studios' Matrix-esque approach to the film, he opted for a loan, which he used to cultivate a prototype and conceptualize the universe of Tron: Legacy. Principal photography took place in Vancouver over 67 days, in and around the city's central business district. Tron: Legacy was wholly shot in 3D, and 10 companies were involved with the extensive visual effects work. Chroma keying and other techniques were used to allow more freedom in creating effects.

Disney aggressively promoted Tron: Legacy, which was received with mixed reviews by film critics, who generally praised the special effects and soundtrack but were critical of the character development and the performance of the cast. The film grossed over $400 million during its worldwide theatrical run.

Grammy award winning electronic duo Daft Punk - who takes music as seriously as TRON fans take computer references - is scoring the upcoming film TRON: Legacy. It's no accident that the group's two visionary musicians, Guy-Manuel de Homen-Christo and Thomas Bangalter, are TRON fans too. Having grown up with an admiration for the ground-breaking TRON film in the 80s, Daft Punk took on the scoring of the next chapter of the story with extraordinary thought and precision. The critically acclaimed French duo composed and produced the album. The Duo assembled a symphony of one hundred world class musicians in London and recorded the orchestra at AIR Lyndhurst Studios, Britain's premier scoring facility.

Special Thanks to: Justin Springer, Stephanie Caswell, Nancy Dolan, Alexandra Flores, Kaylin Frank, Ryan Gaines, Candice Hanson, Ryan Hopman, Kirk Ringberg, Amy Ross, Don Welty, Keith Wilson, Reggie Wilson and the entire staff at Walt Disney Records and the Disney Music Group.

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In 1989, Kevin Flynn, software engineer and the CEO of ENCOM International, disappears. Twenty years later, his son, Sam, now ENCOM's primary shareholder, takes little interest in the company beyond playing an annual trick on the board of directors; but is requested by his father's friend, ENCOM executive Alan Bradley, to investigate a message originating from Flynn's abandoned Video arcade. There, Sam discovers a secret chamber in which Sam unintentionally teleports himself to the Grid, a virtual reality created by his father.

On the Grid, Sam is sent to compete against a masked program called Rinzler who, having realized that Sam is a human User after seeing him bleed, takes him before CLU, a duplicate of Kevin Flynn who rules the Grid. CLU nearly kills Sam in a Light Cycle match; but the latter is rescued by Quorra, an "apprentice" of Flynn's, who conveys him to his father outside CLU's territory. There, Flynn reveals to Sam that he had been working to create a "perfect" computer system and had appointed CLU and Tron (a security program created by Bradley) its co-creators. During this construction, the trio discover a species of naturally-occurring "isomorphic algorithms" (ISOs), not conceived by Flynn, bearing the potential to resolve various mysteries in science, religion, and medicine. CLU, having deemed them an aberration, betrayed Flynn, captured Tron, and destroyed the ISOs. Meanwhile, the "I/O portal" permitting travel between the two worlds had closed, leaving Flynn captive. Now in control of the system but stalemated, CLU arranged the message sent to Alan, in order to lure Sam onto the Grid, to open the portal for a limited time. Additionally, as Flynn's 'identity disc' is the master key to the Grid and only way to go through the portal, CLU expects Sam to bring Flynn to the portal so that he may take Flynn's disc and go through the portal himself to impose his system on the human world.

Against his father's wishes, Sam returns to CLU's territory to find Zuse, a program who can provide safe passage to the I/O portal. At the End of Line Club, its owner Castor reveals himself to be Zuse, then betrays Sam to CLU's guards. In the resulting fight, Flynn rescues his son, Quorra is injured, and Zuse gains possession of Flynn's disc. Zuse attempts to bargain with CLU for the disc, but CLU simply takes the disc and destroys the club. Flynn and Sam stow away aboard a "solar sailer" transport program, where Flynn restores Quorra and reveals her to be the last surviving ISO. Quorra relates to Sam her history with Flynn and expresses her desire to see a sunrise. Shortly thereafter, the transport stops inside a large warship where Flynn, Sam, and Quorra discover that the transport contains inactive programs, scheduled for rectification (to be reprogrammed or repurposed) to serve CLU and follow him to the real world.

Aboard the warship, Quorra is captured and Flynn recognizes Rinzler (due to his fighting style) as Tron, reprogrammed by CLU, while CLU announces his intention to invade the material world. Sam then reclaims Flynn's disc and rescues Quorra, whereupon CLU, Rinzler and several guards pursue the protagonists in Light Jets. Upon making eye contact with Flynn, Rinzler remembers his past and collides with CLU's Light Jet; but CLU uses Tron's spare baton to escape while Tron falls into the Sea of Simulation, where the colored lights on his armor change from CLU's orange to Tron's original blue. CLU confronts the protagonists at the I/O portal, where Flynn reintegrates with his cybernetic duplicate, destroying them both. Quorra, having traded discs with Flynn, gives Flynn's disc to Sam and they escape to the real world.

In Flynn's arcade, Sam backs up the system, and having deactivated it asks a waiting Alan to take control of ENCOM, naming him chairman of the board. Quorra meets Sam outside, and they depart on his motorcycle. From the rear seat, Quorra witnesses her first sunrise.

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