Daniel Blumberg is an English artist,[2] musician, songwriter[3] and composer[4] from London who works between drawing, improvisation, song form and film.

[6] Following his departure from Yuck, 'Unreal' by Hebronix,[7] a solo project by Blumberg produced by Neil Michael Hagerty, was released by ATP Recordings in 2013.

[11] Minus was recorded by Scott Walker's producer Peter Walsh with a group of radical musicians whom Blumberg met at Cafe Oto including Billy Steiger (violin), Tom Wheatley (double bass), Ute Kanngiesser (cello) and Terry Day (vocals).

[12] Minus received extremely positive reviews: The Times gave it 5 out of 5 and hailed it as a 'modern classic',[13] while Billboard described it as "one of the more unique and exquisite records you're likely to hear this year.

[15] On 11 April 2018, Cafe Oto's OtoRoku released a live album,[16] recorded on 28 February with Billy Steiger, Tom Wheatley and Ute Kanngiesser.

It was originally recorded live at Sarm Studios, London in 2014 and features Kohhei Matsuda on monosynth, Billy Steiger on violin and Tom Wheatley on double bass.

It featured the same core group of players as "Minus", with the addition of Elvin Brandhi performing vocoded vocals on the track "Silence Breaker",[24] and Peter Walsh returned to production duties.

GUO4 was released on Mute Records on 20 September 2019,[29] featuring text from Fran Edgerley of Turner Prize-winning collective Assemble[30] and a short film by Peter Strickland.

[45] Blumberg composed the score to Brady Corbet's 2024 film The Brutalist, which stars Adrien Brody as the Hungarian Jewish architect László Tóth who survives the Holocaust and constructs a new life in America.

The Hollywood Reporter dubbed it a "mighty score",[46] which Vogue wrote "swerves elegantly from tinkling jazz horns and piano to bellowing, cinema-shaking blasts of brass and drums that evoke the tumult of Tóth's inner world".

[47] The score plays a particularly prominent role in the film, being described by the Financial Times as "imposing" and by Sight and Sound "muscular and boisterous".

The Hollywood Reporter wrote, "Blumberg's stirring work honors him [Walker] with subtle echoes, also evoking comparison at times with the jagged edges of Mica Levi or the solemn grandeur of Terence Blanchard."[46].

[55] He also exhibited in digital media at Homecooking[56] for whom he created a series called SILVER DINNER combining drawing with music, performance and video in collaboration with Keiji Haino and Elvin Brandhi.

[57] From 20 June 2020 to 10 January 2021, Blumberg will show a large graphite drawing at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam for the exhibition 'Black Album, White Cube' alongside artists including Albert Oehlen, Scott King and Mark Leckey.