Dawn Sutter Madell is a music writer and co-owner of Agoraphone, a company that does music supervision, licensing, and original music production for commercials, television and film.
Madell has worked with brands such as FedEx, Samsung, and Audi. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] She was the music supervisor for the 2020 film Ma Rainey's Black Bottom . Branford Marsalis called her "the music whisperer for the film." [6] Madell's Agoraphone was the music company for Hewlett-Packard's television commercial "Jane" which won multiple awards in 2016 including a CLIO and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. [7] [8] They also did the music for Audi's 2016 Super Bowl ad featuring David Bowie's song Starman. [9] Her musical score for The World Made Straight was called "the perfect blend of Appalachian folk music and country tunes." [10] Maddell worked with Soundwalk Collective to create the soundtrack for the Peabody Award-winning documentary film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, [11] which was released in 2022.
Madell often discusses music licensing issues in the larger world, explaining the ins and outs of commercial licensing. [12] [13] [14] Dawn Sutter Madell is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she was a DJ for KWUR.
Madell married Josh Madell, co-owner of Other Music, in May 1999. [15] [16] They live in Brooklyn. [17]