Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter says writing the score for ‘Tron: Legacy’ was “depressing” and “limiting”

Daft Punk‘s Thomas Bangalter has said writing the score for Tron: Legacy was a “depressing” and “limiting” experience. READ MORE: The enduring influence of Daft Punk: “They gave off this attitude of not giving a fuck” The musician and producer reflected on working on the 2010 Disney film during a recent episode of The A24 Podcast, in conversation with Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange. He explained that director Joseph Kosinski – who went on to make Top Gun: Maverick and F1, had expected Daft Punk to create an entirely electronic score, but Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo actually wanted to use the opportunity to work with a full symphony orchestra. “Initially, he was like, ‘Oh no I want you guys to do a full electronic score’,” Bangalter said. “By that time, I’d done that music for 15 years, [so I said], ‘No, we’re going to Hollywood. We’re gonna use Fantasia. Like, it’s Disney. So it’s like a full orchestra’.” He said he spent months working on synth tones for the score, but making it fit with the film was a huge challenge. “The problem was that when we started to experiment with picture, anything that was in the medium range, frequency-wise, would conflict with dialogue.” “I...