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‘The Wild Robot’ Composer Kris Bowers & Songwriter Maren Morris On Recreating The “Diegetic Sounds In Nature” & The “Bitter-Sweetness” Of Writing “Kiss The Sky”
Composer Kris Bowers & songwriter Maren Morris discuss the evolving score and original song Kiss the Sky for 'The Wild Robot'.
It’s not difficult to find a connection with Roz, voiced by Lupita Nyong’o, in The Wild Robot, especially for songwriter Maren Morris, who had a young child when she began writing the original song “Kiss the Sky” for the film. She had basically cut together this long sequence that was the entire flight training montage, and the middle of it had that conversation between Roz and Longneck (Billy Nighy). I remember going to their studio in New York, and it looks like a warehouse where it’s just a bunch of pipes and springs and slats of wood, and all kinds of random things that they build these percussion sets out of, and I thought that’d be a fun way to mirror a lot of the diegetic sounds in nature.
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