Danny L Harle

Danny L Harle is the recording alias of Daniel Eisner Harle, a British music producer and composer from London. His work spans electropop and hyperpop, and he is associated with the PC Music label.

Career

He releases music through the London-based PC Music label and is known for making some of the label’s more accessible, chart-oriented tracks. He has released two singles on PC Music and records and performs under the Danny L Harle name.

Harle is also a member of Dux Content with A. G. Cook, and the act also includes MC Boing. He writes, performs and DJs in electronic music under that project.

Education and composition work

Harle studies at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he works with Roger Redgate, Dimitri Smirnov and Jeremy Peyton-Jones. While there, he plays bass guitar and double bass. Earlier, he attends the Canford composition course in 2009 and the St. Magnus Composers Course in 2010, receiving tuition from Malcolm Singer, Sally Beamish, Alasdair Nicolson and Peter Maxwell-Davies.

His music extends beyond pop production into chamber, acoustic and electro-acoustic composition. His works are performed by ensembles including the Hebrides Ensemble, the Allegri Quartet and COMA, as well as players from the London Symphony Orchestra. He also performs in various ensembles at venues including the ICA, Kings Place and Queen Elizabeth Hall.

Selected works and other projects

In 2012, his first chamber opera, As Above, So Below, is commissioned by Birkbeck, University of London and performed at the Wellcome Institute for the Pain Project, a global research project into the cultural history of pain. His piece Prayer for amplified violin and live electronics is arranged for Aisha Orazbayeva and premieres at the London Contemporary Music Festival in 2013.

He also creates scores for film, television and sound installations, and helps produce several pop albums. In 2013, he assists in the production of Tori Amos’s musical The Light Princess at the National Theatre. His song Broken Flowers is played on BBC Radio 1 during Eclair Fifi’s In New DJs We Trust show.

Musical influences

Harle’s acoustic and electro-acoustic work is influenced by composers including Mitterer, Sciarrino, Nicholas Collins, Stravinsky, Luzzaschi and Philippe de Vitry. His broader interests range from the fourteenth-century Ars Subtilior style to video game soundtracks from the 1990s.