Dan Wool

Originally from St. Louis, Missouri, where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based composer and sound designer who 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 (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.

Dan Wool
Dan Wool performing in "Longplayer" 2010
Background information
GenresFilm Score, Performing Arts, Sound Design, Advertising, Experimental Music, Electronic Music, Pop Music, Spaghetti Western,
Occupation(s)Composer, audio engineer, music producer, sound designer
Associated actsPray for Rain
WebsitePrayForRain.com

Wool has also worked extensively creating sound and music for international and domestic advertising and sound-branding 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), 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", 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 in 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 and St. Louis luminary Chip Schloss.

Filmography

(feature film composer credits except as indicated)

Performing Arts and Sound Installation Credits
  • LRPT (2017) Sound-design composition and mix for on-going experimental film by Lucy Raven and Phil Tippett. Preliminary screening at EMPAC (Albany, New York)
  • Where Good Souls Fear (2017) Commissioned score composition for Disability Dance Works. Choreographer Alice Sheppard
  • Dream of Anhui (2016) Score composition, sound-design and mixer for 20.1 channel theatrical sound installation. Hefei, China Produced by Tippett Studio Director Phil Tippett
  • Tacit Consent (dance score) (2016) Commissioned score and sound-design composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain Co-presentation with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  • Tacit Consent (installation) (2016) Visual and sound installation at YBCA (SF) in collaboration with set-designer, Matthew Antaky and sound-installation and projection-designer Frédéric O. Boulay Co-presentation with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
  • Under An Untouchable Sky (2015) Commissioned score composition for Alice Sheppard. Choreographer Alice Sheppard
  • A Space Divided (2015) Commissioned score composition, sound and music supervisor for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
  • The Imperfect is Our Paradise (2014) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
  • 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
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