Dane A. Davis, MPSE

Dane was born quietly in La Mesa, California, in the late fifties. From then on he was always noisy. In early adolescence Dane borrowed reel-to-reel tape recorders and experimented with ways to use them improperly. Other than his grandfather’s clarinet, his access to legitimate musical instruments was very limited so he built and converted various illegitimate mostly unplayable instruments to use in conjunction with partially disassembled tape decks. His mother moved him into the garage where he lived noisily for more than a decade. In high school he began making Super 8 movies, which became a good excuse to keep making seemingly purposeless audio assemblages that now had a purpose as movie soundtracks. This took him to the California Institute of the Arts School of Film/Video, where he confronted modular synthesizers and many new noise-producing tools. While making his own films there he continued to create soundtracks for student films and eventually mixed most of the movies being made at the school.

After matriculation into the real world Dane continued making mostly non-musical soundtracks for experimental short films and started working as a sound editor on various longer film projects. 

In 1986 he founded Danetracks in Hollywood in a closet of the company he worked for during the day as a sound transfer operator. As more sound design and editing work for low-budget independent movies passed through his closet, he quit his day job, and continues today working primarily as a Sound Designer & Supervising Sound Editor on a variety of feature films. 

Dane has received much recognition for his sound work, including an Oscar, a British Academy Award and several MPSE Golden Reels. With his company, he also creates sound design for commercials, movie trailers, games and public installation art projects. In addition to all that noise he has a family, plays several actual musical instruments and continues serious work as a photographic artist. (You can view his work at www.danedavis.com)

Selected Filmography

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The Forgotten (2004)
(supervising sound editor)

Riding Giants (2004)
(lead sound designer) (sound designer) (supervising sound editor)

The Matrix Revolutions, (2003)
(sound designer) (supervising sound editor)

Enter the Matrix (2003) (VG)
(sound designer)

The Matrix Reloaded, (2003)
(sound designer) (supervising sound editor)

Treasure Planet (2002)
(sound designer) (supervising sound editor)

8 Mile (2002)
(supervising sound editor)

The Good Girl (2002)
(supervising sound editor)

Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001)
(supervising sound editor)

Go (1999)
(supervising sound editor)

The Matrix (1999)
(sound designer) (supervising sound editor)

Boogie Nights (1997)
(supervising sound editor)

Bound (1996)
(sound designer)

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991)
(supervising sound editor)

Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
(supervising sound editor)

Surf Nazis Must Die (1987)
(supervising sound editor)

Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986)
(supervising sound editor)

Prison Ship (1984)
(supervising sound editor)