Daniel Beban is a musician and sound artist. He performs on a number of different instruments in groups including Orchestra of Spheres, Devils Gate Outfit, Imbogodom, the Stinging Nettles, Farewell Spit and UMU. With these groups he has released recordings and toured extensively. He builds sound sculptures and invented instruments out of found objects and recycled materials.

Through his work as a radio sound engineer, Daniel has experimented at length with reel-to-reel tape machines, which forms the basis of much of his electronic work. In 2009 Daniel founded the venue Fred's, a centre for creative music and arts from 2009 to 2012. In 2013 he founded Pyramid Club, Wellington’s home for experimental music.

In 2019 Daniel was awarded the Lilburn Research Fellowship to research and write about improvised music in Wellington during the 1980s, resulting Future Jaw-Clap: The Primitive Art Group and Braille Collective Story (2024, Te Herenga Waka University Press).