Pushkin.

Never before as a TV show come along,

but they soundtracks so incredibly haunting

that I couldn't shake it.

That's what happened when I first heard the score

for writer and director Mike White's HBO show White Lotus.

Crystal Ball Tapia DeVier is the composer and musician

behind all the sounds in the score that range

from percussive African and Latin instruments

to guttural human chance.

When I first heard the show's theme that you're hearing now,

I was all in.

It sounded like some sort of crazy deranged version

of Herbie Hancock's watermelon man.

Crystal Ball Tapia DeVier is a Chilean composer

based in Canada who studied classical music

and the music conservatory in Quebec.

After dabbling in electronic music production

and playing drums in various bands,

DeVier's first big break as a composer

came from his score for the British thriller Utopia.

On today's episode, I talked to DeVier

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