Tron

This is a jazz reinterpretation of Wendy Carlos’ Tron Scherzo:

• Michael Pinto _ Vibraphone
• Chris Tordini _ Bass
• Garrett Brown _ Drums

Based on this MTV interview with Olivia Wilde, it looks like French electronica duo Daft Punk may have a cameo in the upcoming Tron Legacy movie.

Daft Punk is doing the soundtrack for the sequel to the 1982 original, Tron, which broke new ground in computer animation.

Anybody else overly excited about the new Tron movie?

We’ve mentioned previously that Daft Punk was scoring the new Tron movie Tron: Legacy, due out in 2011. Here’s a preview of the look and sound of the film, from Comic-Con 2009.

This is unconfirmed info, but Daft Punk is rumored to have written 24 new songs for the film. The Comic-Con rumormill also has it that Daft Punk will be touring their TRON: LEGACY soundtrack. Director Joseph Kosinski was asked if Daft Punk would tour their soundtrack and he replied that there would “definitely be Daft Punk Tron-themed events on the horizon.”

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Billboard reports that Daft Punk has been signed to score the soundtrack for Tron 2 (TR2N):

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.”

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.

“We’re always trying to do something that hasn’t been done, or ultimately, that we aren’t doing ourselves yet,” notes Banglater.

The original Tron featured an original electronic score by synth pioneer Wendy Carlos.

What do you think about Daft Punk doing the score for Tron 2? Do you think that they are up to the task? Should they have gone back to Wendy Carlos to score the sequel?

This is off topic a bit, but you gotta love this remake of the classic Lightcycle scene from Tron. The original may have had a great soundtrack by Wendy Carlos, but this one has a low-budget cool of its own.

via Kotaku