ABOUT
Daniel Walter is a composer and sound artist creating music for stories, moving images, and physical landscapes. His collaborative practice ranges from film scoring and experimental records to site-responsive works in places like the Los Angeles Aqueduct.
He has composed music for over fifty film, television, and experimental video projects, including Ari Aster’s seminal silent short film MUNCHAUSEN, additional music for NBC’s hit thriller THE BLACKLIST, and lead composer on the Tom Brady-produced docu-series RELIGION OF SPORTS. For Getty’s 2024 PST ART, the largest art event in the United States, he composed a prismatic score for a 33-foot-wide triptych video installation about oceanic research at Scripps Birch Aquarium. He recently composed theme music for the original podcast Jacob Reed and Me, which premiered at the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival and was recommended by The Guardian. His commercial work includes campaigns for the Super Bowl and Olympics and trailer music for every major studio. Upcoming work includes music for two upcoming podcasts, including a six-episode true crime series, from Pushkin Industries, Malcolm Gladwell’s podcast company.
Beyond the screen, Daniel’s music makes hidden systems audible. In 2024, he was artist in residence with the Bureau of Land Management in the Eastern Sierras, recording soundscapes from the Sierra headwaters down the Los Angeles Aqueduct to the city itself. The resulting work, WATERFALL, premiered with a live show in Bishop, CA, and culminates in a permanent soundwalk installation in the Alabama Hills near Lone Pine in late 2026. In spring 2026, he presented a workshop on how music can evoke unseen systems at a media arts symposium at Harvey Mudd College. Prior to this, Daniel spent a 2022 composer residency trekking across remote Alaskan glaciers to develop a chamber piece that later premiered at New York’s Federal Hall, and in 2023 performed site-specific garden concerts of original music as the international duo OMOYA alongside Japanese singer and sound artist Maya Hall.
Additional recognition includes being one of 12 composers chosen from over 300 applicants for the ASCAP Film & TV Scoring Workshop and a nomination for a Jerry Goldsmith Award. Daniel has lectured on film scoring at UCLA and LMU.
