Originally from St. Louis Missouri, Dan
Wool is a San Francisco
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).
He is perhaps best known as the principal composer in the
soundtrack-group Pray for Rain (original members Gary
Brown, Paul Trupin, James
Woody).
Dan 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, 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, essence,
The Get Happy String Band, The Glowing Stars, Joe Lewis, The
Mermen and Kally Price.
In the performing arts, Dan has
been commissioned to create scores and sound-design compositions
for Axis
Dance Company, Liss
Fain Dance, RAWdance,
choreographer Sonsherée
Giles and The
Tea Dancers/Ballet de la Compasión. He has also
worked as a sound engineer and/or sound-designer on dance-compositions
with composer Beth Custer (Joe Goode, Jo Kreiter), composer
Rob Reich (Circus Bella, Gaucho, Tin Hat). In October of
2010 Dan performed in composer Jem Finer's "Longplayer" installation,
sponsored by the Longnow Foundation at YBCA.
Dan's work on choreographer Marc Brew's "Full
Of Words" performed by AXIS
Dance Company was
nominated for a 2013 Isadora
Duncan Dance Award (Izzie Award) for
Outstanding Achievement in Music/Sound.