Daniel Hart (musician)

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Daniel Hart
Birth nameDaniel Frederick Hart
BornAugust 1976 (age 48)
Emporia, Kansas, U.S.
Genres Chamber pop, Indie rock, indie, film score
Occupation(s)Musician, composer
Instrument(s)Vocals, guitar, violin
Years active2002–present
Labels Milan, Lakeshore, Walt Disney Records, Bu Hanan Records, Trekky, Varese Sarabande

Daniel Frederick Hart is an American musician, composer and classically trained violinist. [1] He has released music as a soloist and with his bands The Physics of Meaning and Dark Rooms. [2] [3] [4] He has also toured and recorded with numerous bands, including St. Vincent, Other Lives, John Vanderslice, Swans, The Rosebuds, Annuals, Glasser, Broken Social Scene, Pattern Is Movement, Mount Moriah, The Polyphonic Spree and Sarah Jaffe. [3] [5] [6] In 2012, he wrote and recorded the score for David Lowery's film Ain't Them Bodies Saints , which premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2013. [7] [8] He wrote the scores for Pete's Dragon (2016), A Ghost Story (2017) [9] and The Green Knight (2021). He lives in Los Angeles. [9]

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Early life

Hart was born in Emporia, Kansas, where his parents worked as church musicians. [10] He began playing the violin at age three. [2] He graduated from Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts. [4] After graduating college, he joined AmeriCorps and worked for a non-profit in New York City. [4] [11] [12]

Career

Music

Hart moved to North Carolina in 2002 and, along with David Karsten Daniels, John Ribo, Perry Wright and Alex Lazara, founded the Bu Hanan record label. [9] [13] He formed the band The Physics of Meaning, releasing two studio albums, [13] and toured extensively with several bands. He played violin with The Polyphonic Spree, including opening for David Bowie in 2004. [14] [9] He was also a member of St. Vincent's band from 2007 through 2010, and contributing to the albums Marry Me, Actor, and Strange Mercy . [5] [6] He released his first solo record, The Orientalist, in 2011. [2] In 2013, his new band, Dark Rooms, released their eponymous debut album. [15] Hart also performed and recorded with the group Project Mastana, playing violin on their record Backroads to Bollywood.

Composing

In 2009, director David Lowery asked Hart to write two compositions for his first feature film, St. Nick. Since then, Hart has scored all of Lowery's films. [5] [16] [17]

In 2012, Hart scored Lowery's breakout feature Ain't Them Bodies Saints , and Hart was subsequently named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 Faces of Independent Film" in 2013. [18] The score mixes chamber orchestral arrangements of strings and horns with more traditional folk instruments, such as the banjo, mandolin, knee slaps and handclaps. [19] [5] [7]

Following the release of Ain't Them Bodies Saints, Hart scored half a dozen independent feature films over the next two years, including Comet (2014), Return to Sender (2015), Uncertain (2015), and Lost in the Sun (2015), Tumbledown (2015), and The Girlfriend Game (2015).

Hart and Lowery next teamed up in 2016 for Disney's Pete's Dragon , an adaptation of the 1977 musical film of the same name. [20] Hart's score was written for a 94-piece orchestra and 32-person choir, by far the largest ensemble for which Hart has written music. Hart composed the score in three months, working "seven days a week, eleven to twelve hours a day" to finish it in time. [21]

Hart's next project was Season One of Fox's TV series The Exorcist , which debuted on September 23, 2016, and is based on the William Peter Blatty novel of the same name. [22] [23]

In February 2017, Hart was nominated for IFMCA's Breakthrough Composer of the Year, for his work on Pete's Dragon and television series The Exorcist. [24]

On March 28, 2017, Daniel Hart released his composition for the soundtrack to the podcast "S-Town". [25] The music is moody and brooding, and contemplative, a perfect foil to the subject matter of the podcast itself.

Discography

Studio albums

The Physics of Meaning
Solo
Dark Rooms

Filmography

Film

YearTitleNotes
2009St. NickLead composer
2013 Ain't Them Bodies Saints Composer
2014 Comet Composer
The Sideways Light Composer
2015UncertainComposer
Return to Sender Composer
Lost in the Sun Composer
Tumbledown Composer
2016Half the Perfect WorldComposer
Pete's Dragon Composer
2017 A Ghost Story Composer (additional music provided by John Congleton)
Heroin(e) Composer
2018 The Old Man & the Gun Composer
2019 Light of My Life Composer
2021 The Green Knight Composer
2023 Peter Pan & Wendy Composer
2024 An Almost Christmas Story Composer; short film
TBA Mother Mary Composer

Television

YearTitleNotes
2016 The Exorcist Composer
2017 SMILF Composer
2018 Strange Angel Composer
2019 The Society Composer
2022 Interview With the Vampire Composer
2024 Sunny Composer

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