Dean Hurley
American composer, music producer and sound designer
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Dean Hurley is an American composer, record producer, musician, sound designer, re-recording mixer, and songwriter.[1][2][3] He received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for the third season of Twin Peaks.[4] He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director David Lynch.[5][6] Hurley has worked on many different types of films as a film score composer, sound supervisor, sound designer, re-recording mixer, sound mixer, and supervising sound editor. Notably he composed the film score of the 2023 feature film Divinity, along with DJ and record producer DJ Muggs.[7]
- Composer
- record producer
- musician
- sound designer
- re-recording mixer
- sound supervisor
- sound mixer
- supervising sound editor
- songwriter
- Sacred Bones Records
- Boomkat Editions
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He produced for the Veils on their album Total Depravity (2016). In 2017, Hurley released the album Anthology Resource Vol. 1: △△, which features original material created for Twin Peaks, and in 2019 he released Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond on Sacred Bones Records.[8][9] He has worked with a variety of musicians aside from Lynch and the Veils, such as Romance, John Carpenter, Chromatics, Sky Ferreira, Zola Jesus, Gloria de Oliveira, Dlina Volny, Donovan, Trouble, Chrystabell, Jaye Jayle, Jorja Chalmers, Tiny Ruins, Sam Gendel, among others.
Select filmography
| Year | Title | Contribution | Note |
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| 2023 | The Sweet East | Sound designer and composer | Feature film |
| The Mystic (1925) | New film score[10] | Feature film | |
| Divinity | Composer, along with DJ Muggs | Feature film | |
| 2020 | Happily | Sound designer and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2020 | Looks That Kill | Composer | Feature film |
| 2019 | Flying Lotus Feat. David Lynch: Fire Is Coming | Sound designer | Video short |
| 2018 | Stuntman | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Documentary |
| 2018 | What Did Jack Do? | Composer and re-recording mixer | Short film |
| 2017 | Twin Peaks (season 3) | Sound mixer and supervising sound editor | TV series |
| 2017 | The Putin Interviews | Re-recording mixer | TV series |
| 2015 | The Music of David Lynch Benefit Concert | Re-recording mixer | TV special |
| 2014 | Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2014 | Duran Duran: Unstaged | Sound mixer | Video short |
| 2012 | Change Begins Within | Re-recording mixer | TV special |
| 2011 | Blue Velvet: The Lost Footage | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2010 | Dior: Lady Blue Shanghai | Composer | Short film |
| 2009 | My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
| 2008 | Fight or Die | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | TV series |
| 2006 | Making 'The New World | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Documentary |
| 2006 | Inland Empire | Sound supervisor and re-recording mixer | Feature film |
Awards and nominations
| Year | Result | Award | Category | Work | Ref. |
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| 2018 | Nominated | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special | Twin Peaks | [11] |
| Nominated | Primetime Emmy Awards | Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie | [12] | ||
| Nominated | Cinema Audio Society Awards | Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series | [13] | ||
| Nominated | Motion picture Sound Editors | Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Music Score and Musical for Episodic Short Form Broadcast Media | |||
Discography
Solo albums
- Days of Thunder and Rain, self-released (2014)
- Anthology Resource Vol. 1, Sacred Bones Records (2017)
- Anthology Resource Vol. II, Sacred Bones Records (2019)
- Concrete Feather, Boomkat Editions (2020)
Solo singles
- "Our Day Will Come", Sacred Bones Records (2022)
Collaborative albums
- Inland Empire (Original Soundtrack) (by David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
- The Air is on Fire (by David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
- Crazy Clown Time (by David Lynch), Sunday Best (2010)
- This Train (by David Lynch and Chrystabell), La Rose Noire (2011)
- The Big Dream (by David Lynch), Sunday Best (2013)
- Somewhere in the Nowhere (by David Lynch and Chrystabell), Meta Hari (2016)
- In Every Dream Home a Heartache (with Romance), Ecstatic (2022)
- Oceans of Time (with Gloria de Oliveira), Sacred Bones Records (2022)
- River of Dreams (with Romance), Ecstatic (2023)
- Cellophane Memories (by Chrystabell and David Lynch), Sacred Bones Records (2024)
Appearances and remixes
- Ghost of Love by David Lynch, David Lynch Music Company (2007)
- "Dark Night of the Soul" by Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch from Dark Night of the Soul, Capitol Records (2010)
- "Bad the John Boy" by David Lynch, Sacred Bones Records (2013)
- "I'm Waiting Here" by David Lynch and Lykke Li, Sacred Bones Records (2013)
- "Night (Zola Jesus and Dean Hurley remix)" from Lost Themes by John Carpenter, Sacred Bones Records (2015)
- "Dream Wave" by Tiny Ruins, Bella Union (2016)
- "Snake Eyes" by Trouble from Twin Peaks: Music from the Limited Event Series, Rhino Records (2017)
- "Slow 30s Room" (with David Lynch) from Twin Peaks: Limited Event Series Original Soundtrack, Rhino Records (2017)
- "Blue Girl (Dean Hurley remix)" from Camera by Chromatics, Italians Do It Better (2018)
- The Flame of Love by David Lynch and Jack Cruz, Sacred Bones Records (2020)
- "Saturday (Dean Hurley remix)" from Shadow (Remixes) by Chromatics, Italians Do It Better (2021)
Production discography
- The Big Dream – David Lynch (2013)
- Taiga – Zola Jesus (2014)
- Total Depravity – The Veils (2016)
- "I Am the Shaman" – Donovan (2021)
