Daniel Hart (musician)

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 (2016), 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