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


The music in The Wild Robot drew from composer Kris Bowers’ own anxieties about being a new parent.

Bowers admitted he first wrote a piece of music imagining sending his newborn daughter off to college eventually. Bowers learned about them from fellow composer Thomas Kotcheff, and thought their approach to making sounds would evoke the wilderness setting of the movie. “They’re playing oxygen tanks, metal pipes, wooden planks, teacups, glass bottles, all this kind of stuff.

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