Dan Wool

Wool began his film scoring career Sid and Nancy (1986), directed by Alex Cox.{{cite web |title=Interview with Alex Cox |url=https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2016/04/29/on-straight-to-hell-straight-from-its-cinematographer}} He continued collaborating with Cox on nine films, including Straight to Hell (1987), Highway Patrolman (1991), and Tombstone-Rashomon (2017).

He was a principal member of Pray for Rain, a San Francisco-based music collective that specialized in film and television soundtracks.

Wool has composed music for network television films and episodic series for ABC, CBS, FOX, NBC, and HBO.{{Cite web |title=Credits: Television – Dan Wool |url=https://prayforrain.com/television-credits/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |language=en}}

From 2010 to 2021, Wool collaborated with visual effects artist and filmmaker Phil Tippett, composing the score for Tippett’s stop-motion experimental film Mad God (2022).{{cite web |date=7 December 2022 |title=Interview with Phil Tippett about the making of MAD GOD |url=https://www.filmindependent.org/blog/mad-god-vfx-maestro-phil-tippett/}} The film was released in 2021, and its soundtrack was distributed by Waxwork Records in 2022.{{Cite web |title=Mad God Review - LA Times |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2021-12-03/mad-god-review-phil-tippett |access-date=3 December 2021 |website=The Los Angeles Times}}{{Cite web |title=Phil Tippett's MAD GOD CD |url=https://waxworkrecords.com/products/phil-tippetts-mad-god-cd |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=Waxwork Records |language=en}}

In 2023, Wool was nominated for an Annie Award for Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production for his work on Mad God.{{Cite web |last=Giardina |first=Carolyn |date=2023-01-17 |title=Annie Awards: ‘Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio’ Leads Feature Competition With Nine Noms |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/annie-awards-2023-animation-nominations-announced-1235300828/ |access-date=2025-04-16 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}

Wool also composed the score for OUT THERE, a 2018 experimental short film by Tippett and Lucy Raven that was screened at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City.{{Cite web |title=Phil Tippett in Conversation with Lucy Raven {{!}} MoMA |url=https://www.moma.org/calendar/events/4749 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=The Museum of Modern Art |language=en}}

Wool has provided sound design, original music, and on-site mixing for several immersive theme park rides and attractions. Notable clients include Tippett Studio, Sunac Group, and Wanda Group.{{cite web |title=Tippett Studio |url=https://www.tippett.com/ |website=tippett.com}}{{cite web |title=About SUNAC |url=https://www.sunac.com.cn/en/about.aspx |website=sunac.com.cn |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Theme Park – Dan Wool |url=https://prayforrain.com/theme-park-2/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |language=en}}

His work includes the "Fly Chongqing" and "Fly Sichuan" dome attractions in China, created in partnership with Tippett Studio.{{Cite web |title=Theme Park – Dan Wool |url=https://prayforrain.com/theme-park-2/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |language=en}}

Wool has composed and designed sound for several dance companies and choreographers, including:

• AXIS Dance Company{{cite web |date=2 January 2011 |title=AXIS Dance Company "Full of Words" |url=https://axisdance.org/rep-item/full-of-words/}}
• Liss Fain Dance (seven immersive, multi-channel installations)
• RAWdance
• Sonsherée Giles
• Alice Sheppard
• Amy Seiwert’s Imagery (Marc Brew’s Sketch Series)
• Disability Dance Works
• Ballet de la Compasión

In October 2010, Wool participated in Jem Finer's 1000-year-long composition Longplayer, performed live at YBCA and sponsored by the Long Now Foundation.{{Cite web |title=Long Player - The Long Now |url=https://longnow.org/longplayer/ |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=longnow.org}}

He composed a sound installation for the A+D Museum in Los Angeles titled “Windshield Perspective” (May–July 2013).{{cite web |title=A+D Museum (LA) Windshield Perspective |url=https://aplusd.org/exhibition/windshield-perspective/}}

From 2015 to 2018, Wool composed music for the U.S. Synchronized Swimming Team.{{Cite web |title=Turner Duckworth - Dan Wolf |url=https://turnerduckworth.com/drf/news-articles/duckworth-dozen-dan-wool/ |access-date=16 April 2025}}

As a producer and engineer, Wool has collaborated with:

• Bernie Worrell (Parliament-Funkadelic)
• Philip Chevron and James Fearnley (The Pogues)
• Debbie Harry (Blondie)
• Bay Area musicians including All My Pretty Ones, Beth Custer, Enrique, Essence, Indianna Hale, The Mermen, Kelly Price, and Todd Stadtman

• Annie Awards:
• Nominated – Outstanding Achievement for Music in a Feature Production for Mad God (2022){{Cite web |title=52nd Annual Annie Awards |url=https://annieawards.org/legacy/50th-annie-awards |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=annieawards.org |language=en}}
• Isadora Duncan Dance Awards (Izzies):
• Nominated – AXIS Dance Company (2013){{cite web |title=Izzie Award Nomination for AXIS Dance's "Full of Words" |url=https://dansetrack.com/isadora-duncan-dance-awards-2013-winners-performers/}}
• Nominated – Liss Fain Dance{{cite web |title=Izzie Award Nomination for Liss Fain Dance's "Your Story Was This |url=http://www.izzies-sf.org/2017}}
• Blessey Award (Bay Area Dance Watch):
• Best Dance Soundtrack (2014){{Cite web |title=Bio – Dan Wool |url=https://prayforrain.com/bio/ |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250122081044/https://prayforrain.com/bio/ |archive-date=2025-01-22 |access-date=2025-04-17 |website=prayforrain.com |language=en}}

(feature film composer credits except as indicated)

• Territory: Immersive VR (2024) (VR Experience)
• Humanzee (2024) (Short Film)
• Eventos En El Campo (2023) (Short Film)
• Phil Tippett's Mad God (2022)
• Fly Sichuan (2020) score composition for Fly Ride (theme park ride)
• Fly Chongqing (2020) score composition for Fly Ride (theme park ride)
• Inclinations (2019) (Short Film)
• Phil Tippett's Mad God Part 3 (2018) (Short Film)
• OUT THERE (2018) (Short Film)
• Tombstone Rashomon (2017)
• Dream of Anhui (2016) score composition for Fly Ride (theme park ride)
• Phil Tippett's Mad God Part 2 (2015) (Short Film)
• Racing to Zero (2014) (Documentary)
• Phil Tippett's Mad God Part 1 (2014) (Short Film)
• Hog's Tooth (2014) (Short Film)
• The Inheritance (2014) (Short Film)
• The Mayor (2013) (Short Documentary)
• The Caretaker (2012) (Short Documentary)
• Sin Pais (2010) (TV) (Short Documentary)
• Immigration Tango (2010)
• Repo Chick (2010)
• 5 Westerns (2008) (TV) (Short Documentary Series)
• 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 for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element
• Harry Zen Stanton (2006) Music 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) (Documentary)
• Way Past Cool (2000) (TV) Score Mixer
• Late Last Night (1999) (TV)
• Kurosawa: The Last Emperor (1999) (Documentary)
• 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)... a.k.a. 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) ... a.k.a. 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 (13 episodes)
• 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)

• Sage (2024) (Short Film) 2 channel mix
• Walking In The Age Of Uncertainty (2023) (Short Film) 5.1 channel mix
• Eventos En El Campo (2023) (Short Film) 5.1 channel mix
• Fly Sichuan (2020) ("Fly Ride") 20.1 channels. Mixed on-site Tianfu, China Produced by Tippett Studio
• Fly Chongqing (2020) ("Fly Ride") 20.1 channels. Mixed on-site Chengdu, China Produced by Tippett Studio
• Inclinations (2019) (Short Film) 2 channel mix
• OUT THERE (2018) (Short Film) 5.1 channel mix
• Dream of Anhui (2016) ("Fly Ride") 20.1 channels. Mixed on-site Hefei, China Produced by Tippett Studio
• The Hack (2011) (Short Film) 2 channel mix
• 5 Westerns (2008) (TV) (Short 5-part Documentary Series) 2 channel mix
• Repo Code (2006) Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element. 2 channel mix
• Harry Zen Stanton (2006) for Repo Man Anniversary Edition DVD Element. 2 channel mix

• Here. Take It (2022) Commissioned score composition and sound design for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 8.1 ch sound at Z Space (SF). Choreographer Liss Fain
• OUT THERE (2017-2019) Sound-design composition and mix for on-going experimental film by Lucy Raven and Phil Tippett. Preliminary screening at EMPAC (Albany, New York). Premiere screening at MOMA (NY)
• Where Good Souls Fear (2017) Commissioned score composition for Disability Dance Works. Choreographer Alice Sheppard{{cite web |title=Alice Sheppard Where Good Souls Fear |url=https://arika.org.uk/where-good-souls-fear/}}
• Tacit Consent (dance score) (2016) Commissioned score and sound-design composition for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 20.1 ch sound at YBCA (SF). Choreographer Liss Fain Co-presentation with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Tacit Consent (installation) (2016) Visual and sound installation at YBCA (SF) in collaboration with set-designer, Matthew Antaky and sound-installation and projection-designer Frédéric O. Boulay Co-presentation with Yerba Buena Center for the Arts
• Under An Untouchable Sky (2015) Commissioned score composition for Alice Sheppard. Choreographer Alice Sheppard
• A Space Divided (2015) Commissioned score composition, sound and music supervisor for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 8.1 ch sound at Z Space (SF). Choreographer Liss Fain
• The Imperfect is Our Paradise (2014) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Choreographer Liss Fain
• After The Light (2014) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 8.1 ch sound at Z Space (SF). Choreographer Liss Fain
• Awkward Beauty (2013) Commissioned score composition for Amy Seiwert's Imagery. Choreographer Marc Brew
• Windshield Perspective (2013) Commissioned score and sound installation for The Architecture and Design Museum (A+D Museum), Los Angeles. Presented in 8.1 ch sound. Curator Greg Goldin{{cite web |title=A+D Museum (LA) Windshield Perspective |url=https://aplusd.org/exhibition/windshield-perspective/}}
• The Water is Clear and Still (2012/13) Commissioned score composition for Liss Fain Dance. Presented in 10.1 ch sound at Z Space (SF). Choreographer Liss Fain
• Two by 24: Love on Loop (2012) Commissioned score composition for RAWdance. Choreographers Wendy Rein and Ryan T. Smith
• 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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• [http://www.prayforrain.com www.prayforrain.com]
• {{IMDb name|4402|Dan Wool (Pray for Rain)}}
• [http://www.danwool.bandcamp.com www.danwool.bandcamp.com]
• [https://www.youtube.com/danwool Dan Wool's YouTube Channel]

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