| Discovering
early in life that playing loud low notes on his clarinet outside would
make the neighbors' dog howl plaintively until he stopped, Dane spent
his formative years exploring ways to stimulate his environment through
sonic means. Drumming fingers on the dinner table at meal times plagued
his mother on a daily basis. Diagnosed with "noisy child"
syndrome at age ten, his recovery continues to the present day.
Borrowing tape recorders and microphones from school and Grampa, it
became clear that, after minimal disassembly, misuse of audio appliances
could bring great personal satisfaction as well as almost unlimited
auditory disturbance possibilities. The discovery of amplification in
his early teens expanded his horizons to include neighbors across the
vacant lot and down the hill. When unable to afford legitimate
instruments, he made his own acoustic assault weapons from spare parts
with wonderfully disastrous results. Wild noise-nights in his mother's
garage (where Mom forced him to live even before adolescence) with the
loudest kids in town became the plague of Eucalyptus hills. After
attending film school at California Institute of the Arts (with every
intention of becoming the American Bergman), he spent several years
starving, writing, earthquakeproofing and creating soundtracks for short
films until he accidentally became aware that someone would pay him for
making noises. A few years later, he formed Danetracks
Inc
and has since been the sound designer / supervising sound editor on over
sixty feature
films
ranging from Drugstore Cowboy, Bound, and Boogie Nights to Hand That
Rocks the Cradle and Defending Your Life. The miraculous advent of the
digital audio age has given him a vast pallet of tools to deconstruct
the world in the sound domain. These tools were used in their extreme
for the sound design of The Matrix. The challenges ranged from creating
the perceived sound of an absolutely white screen to a human's
perspective of being sent through a phone modem to the air movement and
impacts of bodies fighting in a world of bent physical laws. After
completing The Matrix, he is currently rehearsing with his one-man noise
band "Spontaneous DeGeneration" |
