Deadline.com

‘The Wild Robot’ Score Evoked Kris Bowers’ Worst Fears of Parenting – Sound & Screen Film

The Wild Robot is about an unlikely family of a robot and a goose. The music from the film reflects composer Kris Bowers’ own anxieties about being a new parent: He had a 6-month-old daughter when he ...
Wall Street Journal

‘Wild Robot’ Is Nominated for Best Original Score, a Rare Feat

It’s relatively rare for a non-Disney animated film to earn a best original score nomination. Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “The Wild Robot” and composer Kris Bowers got the nod thanks to theme ...
Variety

‘The Wild Robot’ Composer Kris Bowers Breaks Down How He Created a Score That Made Us All Cry

There were five of us in the studio with Kris Bowers during this recording of Variety’s Behind the Song, and by the time he finished taking us through “I Could Use a Boost,” there wasn’t a dry eye in ...
Deadline.com

Composer Kris Bowers Blends Sounds Of Wilderness, Family, & “Modern Household Devices” With ‘The Wild Robot’ Score – The Process

For Kris Bowers, the composer for DreamWorks/Universal’s The Wild Robot, the film’s principal themes emerged from reflection on a few different musical threads. One key facet of the story that he ...