Daft Punk's Thomas Bangalter Unveils His Identity as a Composer

Thomas Bangalter, best known as half of the electronic dance music duo Daft Punk, has released "Mythologies," a 90-minute instrumental score for traditional symphony orchestra, with nary an electronic sound in the mix. The album is arriving on Friday as an album on Erato, the distinguished French classical label. The ballet is a stylized parade of myths from the distant past, but for Bangalter the project also has a kind of post-apocalyptic, back-to-basics optimism: “After everything, the violin will remain.”