Tron

byJoe Silva
September 15, 2022

Decades on from a time when you couldn’t simply produce a film soundtrack on a laptop, sound design supervisor Michael Fremer reflects on what it was like to work with composer Wendy Carlos for Disney’s 1982 sci-fi action-adventure, ‘Tron’

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