DAN WOOL, Composer & Sound Designer
608 Paris Street SF Ca, 94112
danwool@gmail.com
415-613-0955
danwool.com
youtube.com/danwool

SUMMARY

25+ years creating music and sound design for feature films, television, documentary, performing arts, advertising and theme park installations. Extensive experience with music production, engineering, mixing, and on-site audio media sound installations.                

BIO

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 and sound design for broadcast television projects, multichannel-audio theme park installations and more than 35 feature films, including seven films for celebrated cult filmmaker Alex Cox (REPO MAN, SID & NANCY). Dan first gained notoriety as the principal composer in the soundtrack-group Pray for Rain. From 2010 to 2021 Dan collaborated with filmmaker and legendary special effects artist Phil Tippett to create the score for Tippett’s epic stop-motion feature film, MAD GOD. Dan 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, Dan has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell (PARLIAMENT-FUNKADELIC), Philip Chevron and James Fearnley (THE POGUES); Debra Harry (BLONDIE); and many Bay-Area artists, including All My Pretty Ones, Meredith Axelrod, Essence, The Glowing Stars, Indianna Hale, Joe Lewis, The Mermen.

In the Arts, Dan has created scores and sound-design compositions for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles, Amy Seiwert’s Imagery Dance (Sketch Series),  AXIS Dance Company,  Liss Fain Dance, RAWdance, choreographer Sonsherée Giles, choreographer Alice Sheppard and Ballet de la Compasión. In 2018 his music and sound design work for Phil Tippett and Lucy Raven’s experimental film OUT THERE screened at MoMA (NYC).

In 2023 Dan was nominated for an Annie Award (International Animation Society Award) for Best Music in an Animated Feature Film for his score for Phil Tippett’s Mad God. Dan has twice been nominated for an Isadora Duncan Dance Award (Izzie Award) – in 2017 for his work with Liss Fain Dance and in 2013 for his work with AXIS Dance Company.

SELECTED FILM & TELEVISION SCORE CREDITS: (feature films except as indicated)

• Eventos En El Campo (2023) (Short Film) Dir. Alex Cox
• Phil Tippett’s Mad God (2022) (IFC Films) Dir. Phil Tippett – Annie Award Nominated
• Inclinations (2019) (Short Film) Dir. Alice Sheppard
• Tombstone Rashomon (2017) Dir. Alex Cox
• Racing to Zero (2014) (Documentary) Dir. Christopher Beaver
• Hog’s Tooth (2014) (Short Film) Dir. Olek Lyzwanski – Cannes Film Festival Nominated
• Sin Pais (2010) (TV) (Short Documentary) Dir. Theo Rigby
• Immigration Tango (2010) Dir. David Burton Morris
• Repo Chick (2010) Dir. Alex Cox
• Searchers 2.0 (2007) Dir. Alex Cox
• The Wednesday Woman (2000) (NBC Television)
• Death and the Compass (1999) Dir. Alex Cox
• Kurosawa: The Last Samurai (1999) (Documentary) Dir. Alex Cox
• Three Businessmen (1998)Dir. Alex Cox
• Late Last Night (1999) Dir. Steven Brill
• The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery 1998 (CBS Television) Dir. David Burton Morris
• Since You’ve Been Gone (1998) (Miramax) Dir. David Schwimmer
• Standoff (1998) (Trimark Pictures) Dir. Andrew Chapman
• White Mile (1994) (HBO Television) Dir. Dick Berg
• Car 54, Where Are You? (1994) (Orion Pictures) Dir. Bill Fishman

SELECTED COMPOSITION FOR THE ARTS CREDITS

• “HERE. TAKE IT” (2022) Commissioned score for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 8.2 channel audio at Z Space, SF Ca
• “OUT THERE” (2017 – 2018) Composition for experimental media project by Lucy Raven and Phil Tippett. Presented at MOMA (NY) 2018
• “WHERE GOOD SOULS FEAR” Commissioned score for Kinetic Light. Choreographer Alice Sheppard. Performed at Performance Space New York
• “TACIT CONSENT” (2016) Commissioned score for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 22.1 channel audio at YBCA, (SF)
• “A SPACE DIVIDED” (2015) Commissioned score for choreographers Christian Burns, Liss Fain and Amy Seiwert. Presented in 10.1 channel sound at Z-Space (SF)
• “THE IMPERFECT IS OUR PARADISE” (2014) Commissioned score for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 10.1 ch sound at ODC Theater (SF) – Izzie Award nominated
• “WINDSHIELD PERSPECTIVE” Commissioned score and sound installation for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles
  
• “AWKWARD BEAUTY” (2013) Commissioned score for Amy Seiwert’s Imagery. Performed at ODC Theatre (SF). Choreographer Marc Brew.
• “FULL OF WORDS” (2012) Commissioned score for Axis Dance Company. Choreographer Marc Brew – Izzie Award nominated

SELECTED THEMED ENTERTAINMENT AUDIO MEDIA DESIGN & MUSIC COMPOSER CREDITS

• “FLY SICHUAN” Sunac Theme Park Flying Ride (Tianfu, China) Prod TIPPETT STUDIO (2020) Score composition, Audio Media design, including 20.1 ch ride-mix, 2.1 ch mixes for pre-ride & outer areas

• “FLY CHONGQIN” Sunac Theme Park Flying Ride (Chongqin, China) Prod TIPPETT STUDIO (2020) Score composition, Audio Media design, including 20.1 ch ride-mix, 2.1 ch mixes for pre-ride & outer areas

• “WANDA OCEAN PARK” – Prod TIPPETT STUDIOAudio Media design, Score composition and mix for custom 3D theaters in Jinan and Haikou, China at WANDA theme park. 5.1 channel sound

• “DREAM OF ANHUI” Wanda Theme Park Flying Ride (Anhui, China) Producer TIPPETT STUDIO (2017) Score composition (for live orchestra, choir & trad Chinese instruments), Audio Media design, including 20.1 ch ride-mix, 2.1 ch mixes for pre-ride & outer areas

• “HAVOC IN HEAVEN” – Sunac dark-ride (Guangzhou, China) Prod TIPPETT STUDIO (on hiatus as of 2023)
  Score composition, Audio Media design for multi-environment dark-ride (with point-source, 5.1 ch environments, and on-board audio) to be mixed onsite

• “MARS WORLD” – Kaisa Group (Shenzhen, China) Prod TIPPETT STUDIO (on hiatus as of 2023)
  Score composition, Audio Media design for dark-ride (circular platform with 12.1.1 ch audio), and flying-theatre (10.1 ch audio) to be mixed onsite

SELECTED MUSIC PRODUCTION CREDITS

• “INDIANNA HALE” Vinyl Album by Indianna Hale. Mixing and additional recording. Fur Tuxedo Records
•  “THE GET HAPPY STRING BAND” Album by The Get Happy String Band. Recording and Mixing
•  “PUPPET SHOW” Single by The Gothees. Mixing and programming
•  “A BIRD WITH FEATHERS OF BLUE” Album. Producer, and mixing
•  “ASSEMBLAGE” by All My Pretty Ones. Producer, recording and mixing
•  “CAST A LONG SHADOW” Love & Rockets, Zander Schloss, La Plebe, Mike Watt. Mixing for live concert video
•  “TONE POEMS” CD by All My Pretty Ones  Album. Producer, recording and mixing
•  “HANDSBREADTH” EP by All My Pretty Ones Album. Producer, recording and mixing
•  “ONLY I CAN SAVE YOU” Album by Todd Stadtman. Recording and mixing
•  “ANXOTICA” CD by Todd Stadtman. Recording and mixing
•  “GHOST RIDERS IN THE SKY” Featuring vocal by DEBBIE HARRY (Blondie) Arranger producer, mixing
•  “THE AMAZING CALIFORNIA HEALTH AND HAPPINESS ROADSHOW” Album by The Mermen. Additional mixing and engineering.

SELECTED SOUND DESIGN CREDITS (film and television):