Daniel Blumberg, the latest winner of the Oscar for Best Original Score for 'The Brutalist', is an unexpected choice in the film industry. Despite his accolades, including a Bafta and Ivor Novello award, he has intentionally distanced himself from mainstream success. Blumberg's career as a former indie pop star has transformed into one of atonal improvisation and minimalist melodies. His eclectic home in Hackney reflects his artistic journey, filled with instruments and meticulously organized creativity, demonstrating a blend of charm and chaos in his creative life.
Blumberg, 35, is the least likely Oscar winner you could imagine. Not because he lacks the talent, but because he has spent his career walking away from mainstream success.
He has reinvented himself as an atonal improviser of scratchy, screechy weirdness. If that sounds like a tough listen, it's all combined with sublime minimalist melodies to create music as beautiful as it is challenging.
Before the Ivor Novello, the only thing I'd ever won was most improved footballer' when I was six, he says. Honestly, I'd never thought about Oscars in my entire life.
His tiny flat in Hackney, east London, is an Aladdin's cave of keyboards, guitar pedals, harmonicas, mics, drawings, art books, and DVDs. It manages to be scruffy and immaculate at the same time.
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