Guests were treated with a nutritious three-course meal, an autumn-inspired cocktail menu and a WSJ Magazine tote bag that contained a $1000 Roche Bobois gift card. The 12th annual Innovator Awards honored industry heavyweights such as Margot Robbie, Maya Rudolph and Anitta for their outstanding achievements in their respective fields. “When you have courage, you just do whatever you feel like doing.” “It’s when you’re not really thinking about other people, and what they’re gonna say if you’re gonna fail or not,” Anitta told Variety on Wednesday night at the Museum of Modern Art. To Anitta, the Brazillian singer honored for her musical contributions at the WSJ Magazine 2022 Innovator Awards, it’s the freedom of “not being afraid.” What defines the actions of an innovator? ![]() “I’m not a specialist, I would like to do other projects… but I do love horror a lot.” “I love horror it might be my favorite thing to watch.” However, he doesn’t want to be typecast. “Maybe I’ll get more calls for horror,” he wonders aloud. He now hopes that “Smile” will do the same thing for him in the film industry. Tapia de Veer credits his Emmy-winning score for “The White Lotus” for opening doors for him in the US. “In a pilot, you have to define everything too, it has to be pretty much all there as if it was a movie.” The main difference arises as episodes progress and new music is created further down the line. “In a feature you have one moment for every piece of music and then it’s over,” he says. He insists that the approach is exactly the same and likens making music for a film to scoring a pilot. In many ways, Tapia de Veer’s TV work primed him for features. ![]() Tapia de Veer onboarded longtime collaborator Kim Neundorf to help lighten the load and together they have crafted “a really interesting score” that has been “adapted to Sicily.” “They asked me to write music that incorporates operatic elements and instruments that evoke the Italian location,” he says. The composer began by retooling the theme song and then fell in love with the project all over again. Initially, he wasn’t sure he could return due to “Smile” commitments. Lucky to be working with super talented people who let me do the weirdest shit with my hands □ /FotHHGtlfEĪs fun as that exercise was, Tapia de Veer will revert to more traditional instruments for the second season of “The White Lotus.” I have the luxury of scoring a madly disturbing movie with all the time in the world. “And for a horror movie, it was just a language that I could understand and use.” In fact, the daxophone’s disruptive tones became one of the film’s central motifs. “I learned how to make the growling and screaming sounds pretty fast,” he says. “So I basically just improvised.”īefore too long, the composer was generating all kinds of sinister sounds. “I know how to use a bow,” Tapia de Veer says. ![]() First, the Emmy-winning “Black Mirror” and “The White Lotus” composer had to track down - and then learn how to play - the instrument. “I told Parker about it very early on and he was really into the idea of emulating an evil laugh or groan,” he says. Instead of questioning Tapia de Veer’s unique choice of instrument, the director was immediately supportive. “I was interested in it because you can play notes that sound like human voices,” he says, before adding drily: “it’s pretty weird sounding.” The daxophone became the lead instrument for the score, although synthesizers were still used sparingly. Instead, Tapia de Veer turned to the daxophone, which is essentially a thin plank of wood that is played with a violin or double bass bow. “It’s very hard to plug in a synthesizer and not sound like John Carpenter when you start doing creepy things.”Ĭreepy strings were also off the table given their hallowed status in horror. ![]() “In the last few years, there has been an obsession with retro sounds from the ’80s,” he says. To achieve that formidable goal, the Chilean-born composer knew that he had to sidestep the genre’s obsession with synthesizers. “Besides being the creepiest score of the year, Parker wanted it to be original,” Tapia de Veer says of the director’s original brief. Built around an obscure instrument that mimics human growls and groans, the otherworldly soundscape adds a layer of dread to “Smile” that lingers long after the credits roll. And while pundits largely put the film’s success down to Parker Finn’s spooky premise and a razor-sharp marketing campaign, its secret sauce is arguably Cristobal Tapia de Veer’s inventive score. With global box office receipts already exceeding $100 million, “Smile” is the breakout horror hit of 2022.
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