Daniel Hart

Daniel Frederick Hart is an American musician, composer and classically trained violinist. He has released music as a soloist and with his bands the Physics of Meaning and Dark Rooms. 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. 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. He wrote the scores for Pete's Dragon, A Ghost Story (2017) and The Green Knight (2021). He lives in Los Angeles. He began playing the violin at age three.

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. He formed the band the Physics of Meaning, releasing two studio albums, 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.

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. The score mixes chamber orchestral arrangements of strings and horns with more traditional folk instruments, such as the banjo, mandolin, knee slaps and handclaps. 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.

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.

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.

On March 28, 2017, Daniel Hart released his composition for the soundtrack to the podcast "S-Town".

Discography Studio albums The Physics of Meaning The Physics of Meaning (2005) Snake Charmer and Destiny at the Stroke of Midnight (2008)

Solo The Orientalist (2011)

Dark Rooms Dark Rooms (2013) Distraction Sickness (2017)

Interview with the Vampire (Original Television Series Soundtrack)(2022)

Interview with the Vampire: Season 2 (Original Television Series Soundtrack)(2024)

The Vampire Lestat Butterscotch Bitch (2026) Your Biggest Fan (2026) The Long Face (2026) All Fall Down (2026)

Filmography Film Year Title Notes 2009 St. Nick Lead composer 2013 Ain't Them Bodies Saints Composer 2014 Comet Composer The Sideways Light Composer 2015 Uncertain Composer Return to Sender Composer Lost in the Sun Composer Tumbledown Composer 2016 Half the Perfect World Composer 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 2026 Mother Mary Composer

Television Year Title Notes 2016 The Exorcist Composer 2017 SMILF Composer 2018 Strange Angel Composer 2019 The Society Composer 2022–present Interview with the Vampire Composer 2024 Sunny Composer