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HBO's ‘The White Lotus’: Eerie music heightens drama of rich people's bad behaviour and emotional dysfunction

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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The HBO series The White Lotus faced stiff competition when it was launched in summer 2021.

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  • The HBO series The White Lotus faced stiff competition when it was launched in summer 2021.
  • When the show’s trailer was released in June 2021, its strikingly novel soundtrack stood out.
  • This could be heard in full on YouTube and Spotify before HBO aired the first episode that July.

Canadian composers in film and TV

    • Tapia de Veer joins Emmy-winning Canadian composers Christophe Beck and Mychael Danna, demonstrating the important role Canada has occupied in producing music for film and television.
    • In the early 2000s, he had a Canadian hit with the song “Supersex World,” but then turned to working on music for film and television, creating scores for series like Hunters, Humans and Utopia.

‘Haunting’ sounds

    • In doing so, Tapia de Veer presents the themes and sounds that dominate the six Season 1 episodes.
    • The “Aloha” theme combines vocal and percussive sounds the composer calls “tribal” and “primal,” with bird calls “for an island feel with a spooky tropical depth.”

Menacing undertone

    • It provides a menacing undertone to a surface layer of popular music that tourists to Hawaii may recognize, whether it’s Louis Armstrong singing “On a Coconut Island” or the Rose Ensemble performing “Aloha ‘Oe,” a traditional Hawaiian song composed by Queen Liliʻuokalani.
    • For example, when Tapia de Veer uses the human voice in the underscore, it is never with words but rather in bizarre vocalizations.

‘Renaissance’ set in Italy

    • Season 2’s main theme, “Renaissance,” features flowing piano, harp and (wordless) operatic voice.
    • In later episodes, this setting is localized by the use of the mandolin, an Italian folk instrument.

Disconcerting background tones

    • Stories of treachery and infidelity play out in the disconcerting background tones created by Tapia de Veer and longtime collaborator Kim Neundorf, who in Season 2 has contributed to or composed over 10 tracks.
    • Neundorf also worked with Tapia de Veer on the TV series Humans and The Third Day, as well as the horror film Smile.

Next season: 36 Thai gongs


    It will be interesting to hear what White and Tapia de Veer decide to serve up as the music for the next ‘White Lotus’ season in Thailand. Already, the composer has teased his inclination for including the sounds of Buddhist temples and for using his collection of 36 Thai gongs “to go deep with it [and] make it take a journey.”

Only Murders in the Building is a loving parody of the whodunit

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Friday, August 25, 2023
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Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, has returned for a third season.

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  • Only Murders in the Building, starring Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez, has returned for a third season.
  • Much of the innovation of Only Murders lies in its incorporation of the true crime podcast with the familiar whodunit formula.
  • True crime narratives search for their killers in communities of thousands, whereas the whodunit works with a strictly limited number of suspects.
  • Although the plot of Only Murders in the Building borrows the tropes of the whodunit, it is far from a conventionally cosy crime caper.

Playing the Game

    • For instance, Knox rules that “not more than one secret room or passage is allowable”.
    • Of course, the Arconia – the building the murders happen in – is riddled with such passages.
    • Knox’s rules, though tongue in cheek, reinforced a sense of the importance of “fair play” between author and reader.

An early 20th-century sensibility

    • The finale of season two, for instance, provides a dizzying succession of twists, identifying three potential murderers in rapid succession.
    • For all its postmodern self referential trappings and awareness of contemporary fan cultures, Only Murders’ main use of the whodunit is as a historical reference to the early 20th century.
    • These references to early 20th century culture emphasise the importance of the Arconia itself to the show.
    • Like the whodunit form, it is an early 20th century structure the characters find themselves getting lost in.

42nd College Television Awards Winners Announced by Television Academy Foundation

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Monday, April 3, 2023
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The Television Academy Foundation announced the winners of the 42nd College Television Awards, which recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges nationwide, at a star-studded awards gala that was livestreamed globally from the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California, on April 1.

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  • The Television Academy Foundation announced the winners of the 42nd College Television Awards, which recognizes and rewards excellence in student-produced programs from colleges nationwide, at a star-studded awards gala that was livestreamed globally from the Saban Media Center in North Hollywood, California, on April 1.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230402005052/en/
    Winners of the 42nd College Television Awards presented by the Television Academy Foundation at the Saban Media Center on April 1, 2023, in North Hollywood, California.
  • “Congratulations to all the winners of this year’s competition,” said Cris Abrego, chair of the Television Academy Foundation.
  • Our sincerest gratitude to all the presenters and partners who made this experience so memorable for our nominees and winners.”
    Emulating the Emmy® Awards selection process, entries for the College Television Awards were judged by Television Academy members.

COMPOSERS FOR ENCANTO, THE WHITE LOTUS AND MORE TAKE HOME ASCAP COMPOSERS' CHOICE AWARD HONORS AS 2022 ASCAP SCREEN MUSIC AWARDS KICK OFF ON @ASCAP SOCIAL MEDIA

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Monday, May 2, 2022
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NEW YORK, May 2, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Honoring the composers whose music elevates the magic of the moving image, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers today reveals the winners of the 2022 ASCAP Screen Music Awards. The event runs May 2-5 across @ASCAP social media and @ASCAPScreen on Instagram and opens with the winners of the highly coveted 2022 ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards. 

Key Points: 
  • The event runs May 2-5 across @ASCAP social media and @ASCAPScreen on Instagram and opens with the winners of the highly coveted 2022 ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards.
  • The ASCAP Composers' Choice Awards are the only honors of their kind among US performing rights organizations winners are voted upon by the ASCAP composer and songwriter community.
  • The ASCAP Screen Music Award winners will explore how composers have contributed to the incredible cultural impact of streaming series during the pandemic.
  • Throughout the four-day social media celebration, the ASCAP Screen Music Awards will feature exclusive behind-the-scenes videos, advice, acceptance speeches and other surprises from the winning music creators.

Roku Debuts All New Seasonal Experience on The Roku Channel

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Wednesday, December 1, 2021
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Additionally, The Roku Channel is partnering with iHeartRadio, Vevo and others to bring holiday music experiences and more to The Roku Channel in the U.S. for free.

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  • Additionally, The Roku Channel is partnering with iHeartRadio, Vevo and others to bring holiday music experiences and more to The Roku Channel in the U.S. for free.
  • The all-new Roku Original, Zoeys Extraordinary Christmas, makes its debut on The Roku Channel on December 1.
  • As part of the New Years Eve experience on Roku, Roku Recommends will close out 2021 with its first special.
  • In Q3, The Roku Channel was a top five channel on the Roku platform in the U.S. by active account reach.