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In late 2009, Bungie management came to composer Martin O'Donnell, asking him to write music for the game that would be called ''Destiny''. He came up with a concept he described as "centuries old", which was "music for the sake of music". O'Donnell wrote music that "told its own story", and would be released before the full game to introduce people to the music of Destiny. O'Donnell worked on it with his colleague and musical-partner Michael Salvatori, and later recruited famed musician Paul McCartney to the project. | In late 2009, Bungie management came to composer Martin O'Donnell, asking him to write music for the game that would be called ''Destiny''. He came up with a concept he described as "centuries old", which was "music for the sake of music". O'Donnell wrote music that "told its own story", and would be released before the full game to introduce people to the music of Destiny. O'Donnell worked on it with his colleague and musical-partner Michael Salvatori, and later recruited famed musician Paul McCartney to the project. | ||
O'Donnell took inspiration from the ancient concept "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis Musica Universalis]"<ref>https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-12-the-day-the-music-died-when-bungie-fired-marty-odonnell</ref>, or the idea that the seven spheres humanity knew about at the time moved in relation to music. O'Donnell also used [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomantic_figures nocturnal geomantic figures] as the namesake for the individual tracks.<ref>http://wshu.org/post/marty-odonnell-origin-story-music-spheres#stream/0</ref> | O'Donnell took inspiration from the ancient concept "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Musica_universalis Musica Universalis]"<ref>https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2016-04-12-the-day-the-music-died-when-bungie-fired-marty-odonnell</ref>, or the idea that the seven spheres humanity knew about at the time moved in relation to music. O'Donnell also used [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geomantic_figures nocturnal geomantic figures] as the namesake for the individual tracks.<ref name="Kate">http://www.wshu.org/post/marty-odonnell-origin-story-music-spheres#stream/0"</ref> | ||
At E3 2013, publisher Activision reworked O'Donnell's audio for a trailer at the last minute. They replaced the music with "library music" and hired an unrelated voice actor for the narration. O'Donnell expressed his frustrations on Twitter, stating the music was not his own. O'Donnell was fired from Bungie on April 11. 2014. A legal battle with O'Donnell and Bungie's CEO-at-the-time Harold Ryan began shortly after. This court case was resolved on September 4th, 2015 in favor of O'Donnell. <ref>https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/04/halo-destiny-composer-marty-odonnell-wins-lawsuit-against/</ref> | At E3 2013, publisher Activision reworked O'Donnell's audio for a trailer at the last minute. They replaced the music with "library music" and hired an unrelated voice actor for the narration. O'Donnell expressed his frustrations on Twitter, stating the music was not his own. O'Donnell was fired from Bungie on April 11. 2014. A legal battle with O'Donnell and Bungie's CEO-at-the-time Harold Ryan began shortly after. This court case was resolved on September 4th, 2015 in favor of O'Donnell. <ref>https://www.engadget.com/2015/09/04/halo-destiny-composer-marty-odonnell-wins-lawsuit-against/</ref> | ||
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==Poetry== | ==Poetry== | ||
During a trip to England, O'Donnell met a poet named Malcolm Guite at a festival on the Isle of Wight, where they had their first conversation about pre-Copernican astrophysics and C.S. Lewis. Quickly realizing they shared a passion for these ideas, O'Donnell asked Guite to write a collection of poems for ''Music of the Spheres''. Guite wrote a collection of fourteen poems which he called '''''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells; A Sequence for the Spheres'''''<ref>http://www.wshu.org/post/ | During a trip to England, O'Donnell met a poet named Malcolm Guite at a festival on the Isle of Wight, where they had their first conversation about pre-Copernican astrophysics and C.S. Lewis. Quickly realizing they shared a passion for these ideas, O'Donnell asked Guite to write a collection of poems for ''Music of the Spheres''. Guite wrote a collection of fourteen poems which he called '''''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells; A Sequence for the Spheres'''''<ref name="Kate">http://www.wshu.org/post/marty-odonnell-origin-story-music-spheres#stream/0"</ref> and gave them to Bungie to read over. O'Donnell loved the poems and Bungie purchased the rights to them. Guite had his name for his poetry in the first ''Destiny'' game's credits.<ref>https://www.bungie.net/en-US/Destiny/Credits</ref> | ||
As years passed and ''Music of the Spheres'' was seemingly not going to release, Guite considered putting ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' into a number of his books, but an author whom Guite had admired, Michael Ward, said the poems didn't fit thematically into any of the collections he proposed. ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' remained unpublished. | As years passed and ''Music of the Spheres'' was seemingly not going to release, Guite considered putting ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' into a number of his books, but an author whom Guite had admired, Michael Ward, said the poems didn't fit thematically into any of the collections he proposed. ''Seven Heavens, Seven Hells'' remained unpublished. | ||
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*''Music of the Spheres'' was mixed and mastered by December 10, 2012.<ref>https://twitter.com/MartyTheElder/status/807462515248545792</ref> | *''Music of the Spheres'' was mixed and mastered by December 10, 2012.<ref>https://twitter.com/MartyTheElder/status/807462515248545792</ref> | ||
*The intended shipping date of ''Music of the Spheres'' was in April 2013. The next window of release would have been August 2014. Neither windows happened. | *The intended shipping date of ''Music of the Spheres'' was in April 2013. The next window of release would have been August 2014. Neither windows happened. | ||
*An alternate mix of ''Hope for the Future'' by Paul McCartney with a boys choir is part of ''Music of the Spheres''.<ref>http://www.wshu.org/post/marty-odonnell-origin-story-music-spheres</ref> | *An alternate mix of ''Hope for the Future'' by Paul McCartney with a boys choir is part of ''Music of the Spheres''.<ref name="Kate">http://www.wshu.org/post/marty-odonnell-origin-story-music-spheres#stream/0"</ref> | ||
*The trademark for the name ''Destiny: Music of the Spheres'' was abandoned on May 12, 2014.<ref>https://trademarks.justia.com/860/18/destiny-music-of-the-86018154.html</ref> | *The trademark for the name ''Destiny: Music of the Spheres'' was abandoned on May 12, 2014.<ref>https://trademarks.justia.com/860/18/destiny-music-of-the-86018154.html</ref> | ||