Daniel Brandt is an Greco-German audiovisual artist, filmmaker, composer, and drummer based in London and Berlin. His work explores the interplay of sound, image, and space across film, installation, and performance.
As co-founder of the ensemble Brandt Brauer Frick and solo artist, he has performed over 500 concerts worldwide — from Coachella, Glastonbury, Sonar, and Montreux Jazz Festival to the Berlin Philharmonie, Lincoln Center New York, Berghain and the Royal Albert Hall — blending classical instrumentation with electronic club culture.
His solo projects merge live cinema, multichannel sound, and immersive installations. His 2025 audiovisual stage work Without Us, commissioned by the Barbican Centre, fused film, light, and electroacoustic music into an apocalyptic live cinema experience. The sound installation Multi Faith Prayer Room, premiered at Art Basel Miami in 2022 and shown at V&A East Storehouse in 2025, created a space of collective listening and reflection using voices from 35 countries.
In 2017, he founded STRRR, an award-winning human-curated non-algorithmic online TV platform featuring artists and curators like Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ana Lily Amirpour and Daniel Blumberg.
For opera, ballet, contemporary dance and orchestra productions Brandt has worked with large-scale ensembles and institutions, including Deutsche Oper Berlin, El Sistema Symphony Orchestra Caracas, WDR Choir Cologne, Filarmónica Mexiquense, Stargaze Ensemble, Xi’an Symphony Orchestra, Ballet De Lorraine, Festival Van De Architectuur Ghent, Gluck Festspiele and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. He is a member of the piano ensemble Six Pianos, performing works by Steve Reich and original compositions at international concert halls including Cologne Philharmonie and Elbphilharmonie Hamburg.
Daniel has collaborated and/or performed with artists such as Mykki Blanco, Kom_i, Blixa Bargeld of Einstürtzende Neubauten, LCD Soundsystem, Ana Lily Amirpour, Hot Chip, Nina Kraviz, The Mizell Brothers, DJ Zinc, Aloe Blacc, Sophie Hunger, Emika, Jamie Lidell, Azekel, Marina Herlop, Gudrun Gut of Malaria, Max Dax, Catherine Ringer of Les Rita Mitsouko, Jules Buckley, Agnes Obel, Karel Burssens, André de Ridder, Volker Bertelmann, Vic Mensa, and Frank Ocean producer Om’Mas Keith. He has remixed music by or his music has been remixed by Pearson Sound, Yasmine Hamdan, Mouse On Mars, Pépé Bradock, Soul Clap, José González, Rashad Becker, Adam Freeland, Rocko Schamoni and Tangerine Dream.
His films & his scoring work have been showcased and awarded at international festivals, including Sundance, Berlinale, Sitges, Clermont-Ferrand, New York Independent, London Short Film Festival, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, SoundTrack Cologne, Berlin Music Video Awards, Art Düsseldorf among others across Europe and North America. In 2026 he was part of the group show ”States Of Love And Collapse” by Serpentine Galleries & Futur.Shock at London’s Fold.
Brandt's practice consistently pushes the boundaries between analogue and electronic, music and image, structure and spontaneity.