Dan Poole

Dan Poole is a Sound designer and Composer from Australia based in London. He can be found composing and creating sounds for Indie video games and short films.

Recently, Dan has started his own studio called Dreaming Giants who are working on the Video Game - Lumi: Starbound Adventure!  A 3D action adventure game set on another planet about a space raccoon called Lumi. 

Dan is also currently working with Australian Video Game Studio Oppolyon on the game Ascending Inferno which is due for release on Steam late 2024.  For this Original soundtrack he is creating a unique soundscape combining heavy metal guitars with church organs and dance music. This project has recently been funded by Screen Australia Game Expansion Pack funding which is exciting for the whole team!

Dan has worked with Vanimals game studios in Beijing on ‘Undying’ which was released on steam in Dec of 2023 as the Sound Designer and Composer. Concurrently, he’s been creating music and sound design for Canberra based indie developer Kite shield Interactive’s project: “Mooncorp. Tower Defense”, which has just been partially funded by Screen Australia. He’s highly motivated, and has been composing music for screen and is working with Australian film director Ash Gray on her short film “Deus In Inferno” which is in post production. Excitedly, Dan has just won best composers award with co-composer James Ashley at The Toronto Indie Shorts Film Festival in 2023 for his work on Ash Gray’s previous film ‘Echoes’  

Dan is a Bachelor of Music Honours graduate from the Australian National University’s School of Music in Canberra, where he received the 2019 Australian and New Zealand Composers Award.  The four years of rigorous study prepared Dan for the fast paced environment that comes with being part of a creative team in the creation of sounds for both games and films.  After he graduated, Dan was fortunate to win 2021’s Friends of the school of Music professional Transition Award. Both of these were awarded for his musical achievements as supporting his professional and artistic development. The awards were used to fund his first orchestral recordings with the Budapest Scoring Orchestra in Hungary, a huge milestone in Dan's career so far.

Dan’s multi-genre compositions cover orchestra, chamber work, jazz combo, big band, pop, electronic, rock, singer-songwriter and hybrid-orchestral styles, allowing him to cover almost any screen based project. Dan was also the producer on the inaugural Space To Create First Nations Musicians recording week for Australia Council for the Arts as well as the copyist for Ngarra Burria’s First Peoples Composers Program with Dr Sainsbury. Another highlight of Dans career so far, has been giving talk on music and sound design for video games at the GCAP convention in 2022.

In 2023, Dan alongiside Kamil Czarnecki, founded indie game studio, Dreaming Giants. Now a team of five, they're diligently working on Lumi: Starbound Adventure, a 3D Platforming Collectathon set in an alien world where you can move platforms and create your own path around the lush environment.