Dan Wool
Dan Wool | |
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Dan Wool performing in "Longplayer" 2010 | |
Background information | |
Genres | Film Score, Performing Arts, Sound Design, Advertising, Experimental Music, Electronic Music, Pop Music, Spaghetti Western, |
Occupations | Composer, audio engineer, music producer, sound designer |
Associated acts | Pray for Rain |
Website | PrayForRain.com |
Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based composer who has worked in New York, Los Angeles, London and Mexico City creating scores for more than 45 feature film and broadcast television projects, including seven films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox (Repo Man, Sid & Nancy) Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Searchers 2.0, Death and the Compass, and Repo Chick among others, as well as television movies and episodic series for all major U.S. networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC) and HBO . He is perhaps best known for his work as principal composer in film score soundtrack-group Pray for Rain.
Wool has also worked extensively creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and also as 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), The Mermen, Kally Price and Todd Stadtman.
In the performing 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" choreographer Marc Brew U.S. tour 2011/12, nominated for a 2013 Isadora Duncan Dance Award, a.k.a "Izzie Award", for Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound), 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", 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 October 2010 Wool performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation at YBCA. In 2014 Wool received an award from Bay Area Dance Watch (LiveBlessay Award) for "Best Soundtrack (Dance) 2012-2013"
Dan Wool is the brother of screen-writer/electrician Abbe Wool and stepbrother to Los Angeles musician Zander Schloss and St. Louis luminary Chip Schloss.
Filmography
(feature film composer credits except as indicated)
- Mad God (2014) (Short Film)
- Hog's Tooth (2014) (Short Film)
- The Inheritance (2014) (Short Film)
- The Mayor (2013) (Short Documentary)
- The Caretaker (2012) (Short Documentary)
- The Hack (2011) (Short Film) Sound Design
- Sin Pais (2010) (TV) (Short Documentary)
- Immigration Tango (2010)
- Repo Chick (2010)
- 5 Westerns (2008) (TV) (Short Documentary Series) Music and Sound Design
- Dispatches from Nicaragua (2008) (TV) Walker DVD Element
- Searchers 2.0 (2007)
- Journeyman (2006)
- Missing Scenes (2006) Producer, Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
- Repo Code (2006) Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
- Harry Zen Stanton (2006) Music and Sound Design for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
- Death and the Compass (2005) Commentary for UK DVD
- Dalai Lama: Discourse on the Heart Sutra (2004) (DVD)
- Mike Hama - Private Detective: Mike Hama Must Die! (2002) (TV)
- Never Trust a Serial Killer (2002)
- The Wednesday Woman (2000) (TV)
- A Hard Look (2000) (TV) (Documentary)
- Way Past Cool (2000) (TV) Score Mixer
- Late Last Night (1999) (TV)
- Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999) (Documentary)
- Three Businessmen (1998)
- The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1998) (TV)
- Nightmare in Big Sky Country (1998) (TV)
- Since You've Been Gone (1998)
- Standoff (1998)
- Perfect Body (1997) (TV)
- Any Mother's Son (1997) (TV)
- Perversions of Science (1997) TV Series
- The Three Lives of Karen (1997) (TV)
- Pretty Poison (1996) (TV)
- Sweet Dreams (1996) (TV)
- Death and the Compass (1996) (TV)... aka Muerte y la Brújula, La (Mexico)
- The Winner (1996) (Japanese directors-cut only)
- A Boy Called Hate (1996)
- Her Last Chance (1996) (TV)
- She Fought Alone (1995) (TV) ... aka Scared by Love
- My Dubious Sex Drive (1995)
- White Mile (1994) (TV)
- Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
- Floundering (1994)
- Love, Cheat & Steal (1993) (TV)
- Key West (1993) TV Series (13 episodes)
- Roadside Prophets (1992)
- Death and the Compass (1992) (TV) for UK broadcast
- The Linguini Incident (1991) (restaurant source music)
- Zandalee (1991)
- No Secrets (1991)
- Trust Me (1989)
- Tales from the Crypt (1989) TV Series (episode "The Bribe")
- Straight to Hell (1987)
- Sid and Nancy (1986)
Performing Arts and Sound Installation Credits
- After The Light (2014) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
- Awkward Beauty (2013) Commissioned score composition for Amy Seiwert's Imagery. Choreographer Marc Brew
- Windshield Perspective (2013) Commissioned score and sound installation for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles. Curator Greg Goldin
- The Water is Clear and Still (2012/13) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
- Two by 24: Love on Loop (2012) Commissioned score composition for RAWdance. Choreographers Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith
- Full of Words (2011) Commissioned score composition for AXIS Dance Company. Choreographer Marc Brew
- Fantasia Mexicana (2011) Sound design and composition for dance-program for The Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasión.
- The True & False are One (2010) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
- Longplayer (2010) Performer in an excerpt of Longplayer. Composer Jem Finer
- Speak of Familiar Things (2010) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
- Afternoon of a Fawn (2010) Sound-design for dance performance by Lisa Bufano and Sonsherée Giles. Choreographer Sonsherée Giles.
- Profound/Refound (2008) Sound-design installation accompanying art exhibition by sculptor and painter Ben Smith
External links
- www.prayforrain.com
- www.prayforrain.com/advertising
- Dan Wool (Pray for Rain) at the Internet Movie Database
- Bandcamp