Dan Jones (composer)

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Dan Jones is a British composer and sound designer working in film and theatre. He read music at the University of Oxford, studied contemporary music theatre at the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied electro-acoustic composition and programming at the Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome. Having explored various means of generating music algorithmically he is the author of one of the earliest pieces of software for generating fractal or self-similar music.

His scores for feature films include Shadow of the Vampire (starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe), Menno Meyjes' Max (film) (starring John Cusack), for which he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score 2004.

He has written for all the major British television broadcasters and his work includes Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals, the BBC series Strange, Pawel Pawlikowski's drama "Twockers" and Francesca Joseph's "Tomorrow La Scala". He collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, John Berger and Paul Carlin on the BBC Arena (television) special "The Spectre of Hope".

In 1997 he teamed up with British trip hop group Alpha (band) producing orchestral arrangements for their albums ComeFromHeaven, The Impossible Thrill and Jarvis Cocker's cover of "This is Where I Came In" for Massive Attack's Melankolic label.

He has also created music and soundscapes for large scale public artworks. He is the co-creator of "Sky Orchestra" where music is played from seven hot air balloons positioned over a city, making it one of the largest sound works in the world. His music has also been used by the Rambert Dance Company, The European Space Agency and was incorporated in Isaac Julien's Paradise Omeros which is exhibited at Tate Modern, London.

He is a founder member and co-artistic director of Sound and Fury Theatre Company whose productions pioneer the immersive use of experimental sound design.