Tyrion Archer Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 Hello, fellow Bionicle fans – I present to you my own custom-made version of some of my favorite film music of all time: the unreleased scores from the Bionicle Trilogy, composed by musical mastermind Nathan Furst. This does not include the score to the fourth film, Bionicle: The Legend Reborn, which I consider to be The Last Airbender (Shyamalan film) of the Bionicle franchise. In all honesty, I even found the score to that film to be pretty forgettable, which is unusual for me considering I like a lot of scores from really bad movies (Eragon, The Last Airbender, Transformers, Star Wars Prequels). Anyway, my take on this hard-to-find score combines the elements from all known sources of stand-alone music from the films: the menu loops from the DVDs, the end credits medleys from the films themselves, and a number of original cues downloaded from Nathan Furst’s website and SoundCloud, plus one from YouTube. The pieces are arranged so that they segue into one another in an attempt to make it as cohesive a listening experience as possible. I used Audacity to merge the cues and perform editing. My goal with this fan-made score is not only to provide as much of the salvageable music as possible in the best quality available, but also to present it in a format that is at least somewhat consistent with the standards of an actual original score album. Apart from the end credits medleys, no music was taken directly from the films. Believe me, if I could just somehow magic away the dialogue and sound effects from the film audio I would upload the complete scores in a heartbeat, because this truly is a masterpiece of a score that deserves to be listened to in its full glory exactly as it plays out in the films. Most unfortunately, a method for such a procedure only exists for DVDs that have the music completely isolated on two sound channels (as far as I know), and the Bionicle DVDs are not among those. Sadly, it is highly unlikely at this point that an actual album will be released; Mr. Furst himself has even stated that most of the score will not be released for a number of undisclosed reasons. Hopefully my custom Bionicle score project, along with the projects by other fans that proliferate the internet, will help to fill the void in case a release of an official album does not come to pass. I hope you enjoy it. The score consists of 13 tracks and is just over 40 minutes long, which is the average length of a typical OST release for one film. I have not uploaded it to a file sharing service, as I'd like to see what people think of it before I consider that. You can listen to them on YouTube by following the links below. Track 1: The Mask of Light Track 2: Mata Nui Track 3: Unity, Duty, Destiny Track 4: Legends of Metru Nui Track 5: The Great Disks Track 6: Lhikan Track 7: Time Track 8: A Web of Shadows Track 9: Visorak Track 10: The Last Stand Track 11: Keetongu Track 12: End of the Beginning Track 13: We Are Toa It is fairly likely that I will add frequent updates of these tracks. Almost every time I listen to them there is almost always a segue or something where I think “eh, that could have been better…” Just FYI. An update will also occur in the event that Nathan Furst releases more stand-alone music from the films on one of his music sharing outlets, if he manages to find more; lately he seems to have been having trouble finding the music in his archives. There is actually one specific unreleased piece of music that I think would make this custom album perfect: the entire ending/epilogue music from Legends of Metru Nui. It is one of my personal favorite pieces in the entire trilogy, and I think it sums up all three films perfectly. I would be very happy if I could add that track to the end of this album, as it already contains a good portion of my favorite cues and themes from the trilogy and I feel it would give the album a good sense of completion. I desperately hope that Nathan Furst comes across a copy of that track and decides to post it online. Seriously, that track is amazing. If you have any information on the possible existence of a non-SFX, dialogue-free copy of that beautiful track please share your info with me. I highly doubt it exists online at this time, but I'm just putting that out there. Quote Previous usernames:JoffreyIAmGroot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSkeletonMan939 Posted February 20, 2015 Share Posted February 20, 2015 (edited) Nice work with the transitions! I think it's weird how so much of the menu music never actually showed up in the films. I'd be shocked to learn if anything online was new or different from what we've all seen before. Sometimes scores to small-time DTV movies do leak, but not in this case, unfortunately... For what it's worth... the DVD fortunately had most of the SFX and dialogue isolated in the center channel during the part you love (the ending of LoMN). It's missing the last ~20 seconds, but the track is labeled "A New Constellation/Mata Nui" in my custom edit if you're curious (I think you already mentioned you took a look at my DVDrip though). Edited February 20, 2015 by TheSkeletonMan939 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Archer Posted February 21, 2015 Author Share Posted February 21, 2015 Nice work with the transitions! I think it's weird how so much of the menu music never actually showed up in the films. I'd be shocked to learn if anything online was new or different from what we've all seen before. Sometimes scores to small-time DTV movies do leak, but not in this case, unfortunately... For what it's worth... the DVD fortunately had most of the SFX and dialogue isolated in the center channel during the part you love (the ending of LoMN). It's missing the last ~20 seconds, but the track is labeled "A New Constellation/Mata Nui" in my custom edit if you're curious (I think you already mentioned you took a look at my DVDrip though).Thanks! Yeah, I don't think there was a single menu loop from LoMN that showed up in the film at all. I always loved the alternate recording of Lhikan's theme that played in the main menu loop though, and was pleasantly surprised that the Metru Nui Explorer had a non-SFX version of it. Quote Previous usernames:JoffreyIAmGroot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrion Archer Posted February 23, 2015 Author Share Posted February 23, 2015 Here are alternate versions of some of the tracks. The track "Time" was removed (with the menu loop included there transferred to the end of "Lhikan") and replaced with "We Are Toa", the Web of Shadows end credits segment was removed from "The Last Stand", and the new ending track is "The Way of the Bionicle", which is a combination of the end credits medleys of both Web of Shadows and Legends of Metru Nui. Track 6 (Alternate Track Listing): Lhikan Track 10 (Alternate Track Listing): The Last Stand Track 13 (Alternate Track Listing): The Way of the Bionicle Quote Previous usernames:JoffreyIAmGroot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheSkeletonMan939 Posted February 24, 2015 Share Posted February 24, 2015 The transitions still aren't perfect. But all things considered, you've done a great job so far. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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