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‘The Wild Robot’ Composer Kris Bowers on Family, Power of Music and Message Not to Forget ‘Wealth of Black History’ Lost in Altadena
Awards Circuit Podcast: Composer Kris Bowers on "The Wild Robot" Oscar nomination and the Altadena wildfires.
Bowers —who previously won an Oscar for producing the 2023 documentary short subject “The Last Repair Shop,” about the importance of music education in public schools (specifically, LAUSD) — wants to ensure that his community receives the support it needs. He drew inspiration from the film’s animation style, hand-painted and reminiscent of early Disney classics, and tried to match it with a musical language that felt traditional and modern. “It felt like this hand-painted style that called back to [Hayao] Miyazaki or to, you know, early Disney films needed to be mirrored by a similarly traditional approach to scoring, but then wanting to figure out how to modernize that.”
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