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 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 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 sound-branding and also as sound-designer for short films and documentaries, including several for the BBC and Channel 4. As a music producer, and engineer Wool has collaborated with international artists such as Bernie Worrell, Philip Chevron and James Fearnley, Debbie Harry, and worked with various bay-area recording artists such as All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, essence, 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, Los Angeles, Amy Seiwert's Imagery dance company: Sketch Series. AXIS Dance Company, Liss Fain Dance, RAWdance, choreographer Sonsherée Giles and The Tea Dancers/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.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 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 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.

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