Genuine Curiosity with Devonté Hynes & Thomas Bangalter
About this episode
Devonté Hynes and Thomas Bangalter discuss their experiences in music composition and production.
Topcis covered include: Devonté’s cello score as the fifth lead in The Invite , Daft Punk working with an 85 piece orchestra on Tron: Legacy (also starring Olivia Wilde!), finding the magic chemistry between strings and dialogue, monophonic vs. polyphonic, a great note from a Disney executive, extreme precision, the true effort it takes to bring soul to synthesizers, composing the Mythologies ballet score before the choreography existed, Random Access Memories being made like a film without cameras, the 250 tracks on Daft Punk’s “Touch,” spending two years with just a piano and GoPro, restoring Electroma in 35mm for Tribeca Film Festival, and curiosity as an antidote to the algorithm.
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