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Guitarist, Music Producer, & Audio Engineer.

Custom production, instruction, mixing, and mastering. Specialized in songwriting, instrumentals, and beats crafted across Rock, Folk, Pop, and Hip-Hop genres.

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Visual art

Exploring tension between engineering and artistry. Raw perception of our cities and natural landscapes.

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About

Daniel Villani

Toronto-born multimedia artist fusing live guitar, music production, and watercolour art.


From picking up the guitar at age ten: navigating high school jazz bands, theatre pits, and local bar stages, to mastering the studio craft of recording, mixing, and audio engineering.

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music

From 6 Strings to Electronic Beats

Music for me has always been about versatility and execution. My foundation was built on live performance: choosing music over my other passions, playing clarinet throughout four years of high school, holding down the rhythm as the guitarist in Grease the musical, and performing at local Toronto staples such as Supermarket and Longboat Hall.

My production style evolved directly out of necessity. I started by recording my own live guitars, which gradually expanded into creating custom and premade electronic beats. By approaching the workstation with an engineer’s attention to frequency and mixing, I cross-pollinate genres such as hip-hop, R&B, grunge, and folk. The result is music that preserves both technical clarity and the expressive, unquantized pocket of a human performance.

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An engineer's mind with an artist's hand

As an engineer, technical drawing is about control—everything is measured to serve a fast-paced development landscape that often flattens architecture. Watercolour is the exact opposite: it is a space where the image cannot be controlled and instead unfolds organically through time. Watercolour captures the atmosphere of a city or landscape torn between construction and erosion. Rather than reproducing a building or landscape exactly as it is designed, I paint to capture how it makes me feel. This practice guides my eye across both our built environments and natural landscapes.

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