Dan Jones
- Known for
- Sound
- Birthplace
- Lewisham, London, England, UK
Biography
Dan Jones is a British composer and sound designer working in film and theatre. He read music at the University of Oxford, studied contemporary music theatre at the Banff Centre for the Arts and studied electro-acoustic composition and programming at the Centro Ricerche Musicali in Rome. Having explored various means of generating music algorithmically, he is the author of one of the earliest pieces of software for generating fractal or self-similar music. He has won BAFTA and Ivor Novello Awards. He composed the score for the Peabody Award-winning documentary film Bobi Wine: The People's President His scores for feature films include Shadow of the Vampire (starring John Malkovich and Willem Dafoe), In Transit (also starring John Malkovich), Jericho Mansions (starring James Caan) and Menno Meyjes' Max (starring John Cusack), for which he received the Ivor Novello Award for Best Film Score 2004. He also scored Meyjes' follow up film Manolete (starring Adrien Brody and Penélope Cruz). He has written for all the major British television broadcasters and his work includes Sir David Attenborough's The Life of Mammals, the BBC series Strange, Pawel Pawlikowski's drama "Twockers", Charlie Brooker's Channel 4 horror series "Dead Set" and Francesca Joseph's "Tomorrow La Scala", Channel 4's three-part documentary " Visions of Heaven and Hell" shown in 1994. He collaborated with Sebastião Salgado, John Berger and Paul Carlin on the BBC Arena (television) special "The Spectre of Hope". He recently composed the music for the BAFTA Best Drama Serial Any Human Heart for Channel 4 which also won both BAFTA and Ivor Novello Best Television Score Awards. More recently, he composed the music for ITV's controversial Fred West drama, 'Appropriate Adult'.
Known For
Filmography
What a circus
Movie · Sound
Blacks or Whites
Movie · Sound
Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards
Movie · Original Music Composer
Six Weeks
Movie · Music Producer
Bobi Wine: The People's President
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Outlaws
TV · Original Music Composer · 17 eps
Close to Me
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
Flesh and Blood
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
World on Fire
TV · Original Music Composer · 13 eps
On Chesil Beach
Movie · Original Music Composer
Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist
Movie · Original Music Composer
Dark Heart
TV · Original Music Composer · 6 eps
The Miniaturist
Movie · Original Music Composer
B&B
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Miniaturist
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Replacement
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
SS-GB
TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps
Man in an Orange Shirt
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Lady Macbeth
Movie · Original Music Composer, Sound Designer
The Roof
Movie · Original Music Composer
My Scientology Movie
Movie · Original Music Composer
Silent Fear
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
The Great Fire
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
National Theatre Live: Antigone
Movie · Sound Designer
The Secret of Crickley Hall
TV · Original Music Composer · 3 eps
The Hollow Crown
TV · Music · 2 eps
The Fear
TV · Original Music Composer · 4 eps
Appropriate Adult
TV · Original Music Composer · 2 eps
Any Human Heart
TV · Music · 4 eps
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Movie · Music
A Matador's Mistress
Movie · Original Music Composer
In Tranzit
Movie · Music
Dead Set
TV · Music · 5 eps
Criminal Justice
TV · Original Music Composer · 5 eps
White Lilacs
Movie · Music
Four Last Songs
Movie · Original Music Composer
Learners
Movie · Original Music Composer
Murder by Numbers
Movie · Original Music Composer
Jericho Mansions
Movie · Original Music Composer
Black Plague
Movie · Music
Max
Movie · Original Music Composer
Tomorrow La Scala!
Movie · Original Music Composer
The Life of Mammals
TV · Music · 10 eps
Trance
Movie · Original Music Composer
Shadow of the Vampire
Movie · Original Music Composer, Orchestrator
The Weekend
Movie · Original Music Composer
Boogie Nights in Suburbia
Movie · Original Music Composer
Lost at Sea: The Search for Longitude
Movie · Original Music Composer
Visions of Heaven and Hell
Movie · Music