Music of the Spheres: Difference between revisions

When the struggles between O'Donnell and Bungie went public, ''Destiny'' fan OS_Epsilon began a project to reconstruct ''Music of the Spheres'' from publicly available material. After several months, OS_Epsilon released a 40 minute cut to Reddit on March 11th, 2016, which impressed O'Donnell. OS_Epsilon kept working on it for another year with the help of fellow fan Tlohtzin Espinosa. OS_Epsilon and Espinosa's work was released in March 2017, called the "[https://soundcloud.com/tlohtzin123/sets/music-of-the-spheres-definitive-edition-martin-odonnell-michael-salvatori-and-paul-mccartney Definitive Edition]".<ref>[https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2017-06-05-the-teen-who-spent-over-a-year-piecing-together-destinys-unreleased-music Eurogamer report on the work of OS_Epsilon and Espinosa]</ref> O'Donnell stated that while it was "not quite definitive", it was still close to the real work.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/DestinyTheGame/comments/619zav/music_of_the_spheres_definitive_edition/dfdlnh2/ O'Donnell's comment on the Definitive Edition]</ref> .

Seeing the progress of OS_Epsilon and Espinosa, O'Donnell went to Twitter and encouraged anyone who had a promotional copy of ''Music of the Spheres'' to share it. <ref>[https://twitter.com/MartyTheElder/status/936349365496459264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkotaku.com%2Fajax%2Finset%2Fiframe%3Fid%3Dtwitter-936349365496459264%26autosize%3D1 O'Donnell's tweet encouraging people to share ''Music of the Spheres'']</ref> On December 23, 2017, Espinosa was contacted by someone who owned a copy of ''Music of the Spheres'', and he worked with OS_Epsilon to release it on December 25, 2017. <ref>[https://kotaku.com/four-years-later-destinys-music-of-the-spheres-has-lea-1821572335 Kotaku report of ''Music of the Spheres'' being leaked]</ref> Many fans feared the legal ramifications this would lead to, but for four months, the leak remained online. In April 2018, OS_Epsilon was contacted by Bungie with a Cease and Desist letter, which led to a fan outcry for the music. Bungie's community manager Cozmo23 responded to the backlash on Reddit by saying they were taking down the leaks so Bungie could officially release ''Music of the Spheres''. <ref>''[https://www.pcgamer.com/the-unreleased-destiny-album-music-of-the-spheres-has-leaked PC Gamer report on the official release of "Music of the Spheres"]''/</ref>