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Dan Wool

Overview

Dan Wool is an American composer and sound designer. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, he is based in San Francisco, California. He has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London, Mexico City, and Anhui China creating scores for broadcast television projects, theatrical sound installations, and more than 45 feature films, including nine films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox. Wool has also composed music for television movies and episodic series for ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and HBO. He is often recognized for his work as a principal composer in the film score soundtrack group Pray for Rain.

Wool has also worked extensively creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and sound branding and also as a sound designer for short films and documentaries, including several for the BBC and Channel 4 (UK). As a music producer and engineer Wool has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic), Philip Chevron and James Fearnley (The Pogues), Debbie Harry (Blondie), and worked with various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, essence (singer), Indianna Hale, The Mermen, Kally Price and Todd Stadtman.

In the Arts Wool has composed scores and designed sound for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles (sound installation for the exhibition "Windshield Perspective" May–July 2013), Amy Seiwert's Imagery dance company: Sketch Series ("Awkward Beauty" performed at ODC Theatre 2013. Choreographer Marc Brew). AXIS Dance Company ("Full Of Words" performed on U.S. tour 2011/12), Liss Fain Dance ("Speak of Familiar Things" performed at YBCA SF, "The True and False are One" performance and sound-installation at Theatre Artaud 2010 and at YBCA 2011 and "The Water is Clear and Still" performance and sound-installation at Theatre Artaud 2012, Powerhouse Arena Brooklyn and YBCA SF 2013), RAWdance ("Two by 24", a site-specific dance performance at U.N. Plaza 2012), choreographer Sonsherée Giles (Afternoon of a Fawn performed at Theater KOSMOS, Austria 2010 and Temescal Arts Center 2011) and The Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasión (Fantasia Mexicana performed at Studio Eight 2011). In 2018 his music and sound design work for Phil Tippett and Lucy Raven’s experimental film OUT THERE screened at MoMA (NYC).In October 2010 Wool performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation at YBCA. In the years 2015 through 2018, he has been engaged by the U.S. Olympic Synchronized Swimming Team for ongoing compositional and musical services.

Dan has twice been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie Award) for Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound/Text, in 2017 for his work with Liss Fain Dance and 2013 for his work with AXIS Dance Company. In 2014 Dan received an award from Bay Area Dance Watch (Blessay Award) for “Best Dance Soundtrack”

Dan Wool is the brother of screenwriter/electrician Abbe Wool and stepbrother to Los Angeles musician Zander Schloss (Circle Jerks, Joe Strummer) and St. Louis luminary Chip Schloss.

Known for

Production

2006 Repossessed Production Producer 59
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Sound

2024 Humanzee Sound Original Music Composer 59
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2024 Humanzee Sound Sound Designer 59
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2024 Humanzee Sound Sound Mixer 59
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2021 Mad God Sound Music 63
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2017 Tombstone Rashomon Sound Music 59
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2012 Scene Missing Sound Sound Editor 59
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2010 Immigration Tango Sound Original Music Composer 58
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2009 Repo Chick Sound Original Music Composer 58
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2008 Dispatches from Nicaragua Sound Music 59
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2007 Searchers 2.0 Sound Music 59
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1999 The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery Sound Music 58
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1998 Nightmare in Big Sky Country Sound Music N/A
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1998 Since You've Been Gone Sound Music 58
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1998 Standoff Sound Music 59
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1997 Any Mother's Son Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1997 The Three Lives of Karen Sound Music 58
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1996 Her Last Chance Sound Music 58
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1995 She Fought Alone Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1994 Floundering Sound Music 58
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1994 White Mile Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1994 Car 54, Where Are You? Sound Original Music Composer 57
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1993 Love, Cheat & Steal Sound Music 58
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1992 Death and the Compass Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1992 Roadside Prophets Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1991 No Secrets Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1991 Zandalee Sound Music 56
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1987 Straight to Hell Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1986 Sid and Nancy Sound Original Music Composer 62
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