Dean Hurley

OccupationsYears active2004–presentLabels

Dean Hurley is an American composer, record producer, musician, sound designer, and re-recording mixer.^[1][2][3] He has been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award two times for the series, Twin Peaks: The Return.^[4] He is best known for his frequent collaborations with director David Lynch.^[5][6]

He produced for the Veils on their album Total Depravity (2016). In 2017, Hurley released the album, Anthology Resource Vol. 1, which featured original material created for Twin Peaks and in 2019, Anthology Resource Vol. II: Philosophy of Beyond, on Sacred Bones Records.^[7][8] 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.

Year	Title	Contribution	Note
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

Year	Result	Award	Category	Work	Ref.
2018	Nominated	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Sound Editing for a Limited Series, Movie, or Special	Twin Peaks	[9]
	Nominated	Primetime Emmy Awards	Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Limited Series or Movie		[10]
	Nominated	Cinema Audio Society Awards	Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Television Movie or Mini-Series		[11]
	Nominated	Motion picture Sound Editors	Golden Reel Award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Editing - Music Score and Musical for Episodic Short Form Broadcast Media

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) (with David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
• The Air is on Fire (with David Lynch), DLMC (2007)
• Crazy Clown Time (with David Lynch), Sunday Best (2010)
• This Train (with David Lynch and Chrystabell), La Rose Noire (2011)
• The Big Dream (with David Lynch), Sunday Best (2013)
• Somewhere in the Nowhere (with 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 (with Chrystabell and David Lynch), Sacred Bones Records (2024)

Appearances and remixes

• Ghost of Love (with David Lynch), David Lynch Music Company (2007)
• "Dark Night of the Soul" (with Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse and David Lynch from Dark Night of the Soul, Capitol Records (2010)
• "Bad the John Boy" (with David Lynch), Sacred Bones Records (2013)
• "I'm Waiting Here" (with David Lynch and Lykke Li), Sacred Bones Records (2013)
• "Night (Remix)" from Lost Themes by (John Carpenter, Sacred Bones Records (2015)
• "Dream Wave" by Tiny Ruins, Bella Union (2016)
• "Snake Eyes" with 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 (with David Lynch and Jack Cruz), Sacred Bones Records (2020)
• "Saturday (Dean Hurley remix)" from Shadow (Remixes) by Chromatics, Italians Do It Better (2021)

• Taiga – Zola Jesus (2014)
• Total Depravity – The Veils (2014)
• "I Am the Shaman" – Donovan (2021)

• Dean Hurley at IMDb