Dan Wool

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Dan Wool

Dan Wool performing in "Longplayer" 2010
Background information
Genres Film Score, Performing Arts
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 Axis Dance Company ("Full of Words" with choreographer Marc Brew U.S. tour 2011/12), Liss Fain Dance ("Speak of Familiar Things" performed at YBCA SF and "The True and False are One", performance and sound-installation at Theatre Artaud 2010 and at YBCA 2011), 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 of 2010 Wool performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation, sponsored by the Long Now Foundation at YBCA.

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.

[edit] Filmography

(composer credits except as indicated)

[edit] Performing Arts and Sound Installation Credits

  • 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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