Alex Wurmanis an award-winning American composer who hails from Chicago... (wikipedia)
What I did was to be a little more inside the box,
I got connected to this film by luck, ... I was telling my agent that I was dying to do something with a big melody.
It was a great way to allow the script and the music to coexist,
I'm not writing music that's composed for the penguins, ... I'm writing music for the people watching the penguins and thinking about how they feel. And I'm thinking about how I might feel in that situation.