Daft Punk Scores TR2N Soundtrack

March 04, 2009 02:41 PM ET

David J. Prince, N.Y.

Daft Punk, the French electronica duo known for their robot personas, have been tapped by Walt Disney Pictures to compose the score for "TR2N", an update of the studio's 1982 science fiction classic "Tron", Billboard has confirmed.

The film, currently in production, is tentatively scheduled for a 2011 release.

The "TR2N" score marks Daft Punk's first foray into the studio since 2005's "Human After All." After an extended hiatus, the duo reemerged in 2007 for an extensive world tour, spawning the Grammy-wining live set "Alive 2007." The group's 2001 track "Harder Better Faster Stronger" was adapted by Kanye West for his single "Stronger," and the pair appeared on the 2008 Grammy Awards with the rapper.

The musicians, Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo and Thomas Bangalter split their time between Paris and Los Angeles, where they have have assembled a new recording studio for the TR2N project.

Daft Punk have worked in film before, most notably as directors of their feature "Electroma," although that film used none of the group's own music. As Banglater explained to Billboard in 2007 about the pair's next musical project, "The cool thing is that we're always trying to do something that hasn't been done, or ultimately, that we aren't doing ourselves yet. It is challenging to get back in the studio and work with ideas we haven't expressed before. Some ideas take time, but some just take a few weeks, so we'll see."

The original film, which pioneered the use of computer graphics, was scored by Wendy Carlos, an electronic musician and composer whose "Switched on Bach" album was one of the first to highlight the Moog synthesizer as a musical instrument.

Comment:
Mikael Carlsson comments:

March 05, 2009

Cool. And here is the actual origin of this scoop: http://upcomingfilmscores.blogspot.com/2009/03/daft-punk-tron-20.html :-)

Mulholland Drive: Silencio Dub

"NO HAY BANDA!!! There. Is. NO. Band. But yet we hear a band"

This is the scene in David Lynch's masterpiece Mulholland Drive where the stunningly beautiful Betty & Rita (Naomi Watts & Laura Elena Harring) go to a late night theater called Club Silencio. The performer does a monologue varying in English, Spanish, and French about how everything is an illusion. I have done a little remixing and refixing to add a slight more musical substance to the scene. Beats and processes all done by myself. Enjoy :-)

The Alphabet Dub

Credits:

Directed by:
David Lynch

Writing credits:
David Lynch ... writer

Cast:
Peggy Lynch ... Girl

Produced by:
H. Barton Wasserman .... producer

Cinematography by:
David Lynch

Film Editing by:
David Lynch

Sound Department:
Robert Cullum .... sound mixer
David Lynch .... sound
Robert McDonald .... sound editor

Animation Department:
David Lynch .... animator

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Sound Remix & Music: Ky Olsen

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Plot:

(from imdb user jodiac ):

Another Phobia Envisioned by David Lynch, 29 May 2002
Author: jodiac from Lexington, KY

David Lynch says this film was an attempt at visualizing the "fear of learning." In it, a young girl is tortured by the alphabet in a competely abstract nightmare. Lynch has always been fascinated by the darker side of dreams, the seemingly nonsensical black procession of symbols and fears, and this film simply adds another phobia to the canon.

We are shown images of a head with information going in one side, and this eventually causes the head to erupt into a black mess. Lynch juxtaposes the most innocent of subjects (the alphabet), which usually marks the beginning of our schooling, with disconcerting images of blood and vomit. Disturbing? Yes. Lynch apparently formed the idea after hearing of a girl who was found reciting the alphabet during a nightmare.

On a more profound level, the film examines a fear that perhaps appears for most later in life: the dread of knowledge. There's quite a bit of truth to the oft-repeated line "ignorance is bliss." Gradually, we realize that the more we learn, the less we understand, and therefore, the less control we have over our situations. It's a problem that has vexed people since the conception of "science." We ask questions out of curiosity, find there are no accessible answers, create a religious penumbra that satisfies a great deal with a few simple passages, and then science comes along and we are confronted once again with the inconsistencies of our faith. Thus, we fear that which turns the rock-solid black and whites of our existence to a confused mass of gray.

Also, The Alphabet hints at what linguists and intellectuals and songwriters have known for centuries; words are wholly inadequate to describe even the simplest of human perceptions. And once one has etched that list of letters into one's mind, in a sense, there is no turning back. Life becomes shapes patterned on paper, and conceptions of reality will no longer be formed purely and internally; they are immediately attached to an imperfect language and remained tethered to that which will never truly suffice.

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The Film:

Lynch on The Alphabet



Original Film



The Alphabet Dub
(Original Film with audio remix and music)


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Sources:

The Alphabet on IMDB.com

The Alphabet on Lynchnet.com

David Lynch Home Page