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[…] Writing ’Tronic Music JB:How did you get involved in Tron? WC: Disney’s project was being put together under the auspices of some animators from Boston who had originally done the Animal Olympics, which got lost on the public when we backed out of the Russian Olympic Games in 1980. The people there included somebody who was close to the director and who knew my music, and they approached me to do the subterranean world inside the computer. And I told them that honestly I wasn't interested in doing just electronic music. that I would like to hybrid the whole score with orchestra. They said. “Oh, you can write for orchestra too?" I bristled slightly and said sure, what do you think my training is? […]