Composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer offers insight into creating the memorable music for the HBO hit and why Season 2 might sound different Jason Clark | June 10, 2022 @ 12:07 PM Chances are if you were watching HBO on Sunday nights last summer, you grooved to the most earworm-y main title music since “Mad Men” and wondered who blended those percussive beats to the haunting choral wails you just couldn’t get enough of while the cast’s names unfolded onto a palette of wallpaper seemingly blooming to life in sync with the main theme. That would be the Chilean-born, BAFTA-winning composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer, who was tapped by writer-director Mike White to score his suspenseful, Hawaii-set look at the downsides of white privilege and fraught vacationing. It proved to be a splendid match, though Tapia de Veer was not completely familiar with his oeuvre at first. “I knew ‘School of Rock,’ but I never saw it,” Tapia de Veer said over a recent Zoom call. “But I knew his face, and I started to watch his [HBO series] ‘Enlightened,’ and I loved that show and started really getting into his stuff. I started this project pretty late. When I came in, we were, like, about a month from mixing time, so I started working only with the script.” Read the full article here. Tags: Cristobal Tapia de Veer, The White Lotus HBO, the wrap
