- Dan Wool
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Originally from St. Louis, Missouri where he played in the punk rock band The Strikers, Dan Wool is a San Francisco, California, based musician best known for his work as principal composer in film score soundtrack-group Pray for Rain.
Among Wool's film and television soundtrack credits are the scores to several films by celebrated cult-film maker Alex Cox, (including Sid and Nancy, Straight to Hell, Searchers 2.0, Death and the Compass, and Repo Chick) as well television movies for all major U.S. networks (ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC) and HBO. He has also worked extensively on music and sound-design for advertising and as a producer and engineer for 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 created music and sound scores for Axis Dance Company (choreographer Marc Brew), Liss Fain Dance (choreographer Liss Fain) and Dancer/choreographer Sonsherée Giles.
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
(composer credits except as indicated)
- Sin Pais (2010)
- Immigration Tango (2010)
- Repo Chick (2010)
- 5 Westerns (2008) (TV) 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)
- Way Past Cool (2000) (TV) Score Mixer
- Late Last Night (1999) (TV)
- Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999)
- 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
- 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 Credits
- Full of Words (2011) Commissioned score composition for Axis Dance Company. Choreographer Marc Brew
- Fantasia Mexicana (2011) Sound design and compostion 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
Categories:- American composers
- American film score composers
- American punk rock musicians
- Living people
- Musicians from St. Louis, Missouri
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