{"id":922466,"date":"2026-10-06T07:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922466\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T07:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T07:00:09","slug":"white-lotus-theme-composer-visits-vancouver-for-viff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/922466\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;White Lotus&#8217; theme composer visits Vancouver for VIFF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Crist\u00f3bal Tapia de Veer is an artist far beyond the unforgettable &#8220;ooh-loo-loos&#8221; of the viral <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=l2wj6lJtg_8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The\u00a0White Lotus theme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Chilean-born, Montreal-raised, and now Quebec rural mountain-living composer is also\u00a0known for creating scores to other hit series\u00a0such as Black Mirror\u00a0and The Lord of the Flies.<\/p>\n<p>We caught up with the three-time Emmy Award winner\u00a0as the musician visits the Vancouver International Film Festival on Oct. 5, for a <a href=\"https:\/\/freerunartists.com\/an-evening-with-cristobal-tapia-de-veer-at-viff-sold-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">sold-out evening talk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Tapia de Veer shares how growing up with only access to cheap instruments has influenced his sound, and if he&#8217;ll ever consider writing works about wealthy resort-goers in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Watch my interview with\u00a0Juan Crist\u00f3bal Tapia de Veer on TikTok<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@vancouverisawesome?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"@vancouverisawesome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">@vancouverisawesome<\/a> Cristobal Tapia de Veer, better known as the man behind the infamous &#8220;ooh-loo-loos&#8221; of the &#8216;White Lotus&#8217; theme song, is in Vancouver for a sold-out event on Oct. 5 at VIFF. He tells us how his Chilean roots influence his approach to composition, and why he&#8217;s not interested in making art about the wealthy anymore. Visit vancouverisawesome.com for more. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/viff?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"viff\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#viff<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/vancouver?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"vancouver\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#vancouver<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/whitelotus?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"whitelotus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#whitelotus<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/tag\/filmscore?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"filmscore\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">#filmscore<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/music\/original-sound-7693311859466455815?refer=embed\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\u266c original sound - Vancouver Is Awesome\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">\u266c original sound &#8211; Vancouver Is Awesome<\/a>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>With a file from Nick Laba<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Juan Crist\u00f3bal Tapia de Veer is an artist far beyond the unforgettable &#8220;ooh-loo-loos&#8221; of the viral The\u00a0White Lotus&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":922467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[194298],"tags":[49,48,55],"class_list":["post-922466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vancouver","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-vancouver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=922466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/922466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/922467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=922466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=922466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=922466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}