Mike Caral Music

The clickable thumbnails below are playlists of sorted by genre.

Recording session video – avail Dec 28

Selected Playlists

Biography

I strive to be a versatile composer who plays well with others as a problem solver and creative collaborator.
My music draws on an eclectic history of collaborations, bands, and solo projects creating original and experimental music across multiple musical genres. After releasing multiple albums from 2013 to 2020, I turned my focus to writing for film and video, and was a top 10 award winner in both the 2021 & 2022 Indie Gathering international Film Scoring Competitions, and in 2022 placed in the the Top Ten of the Horror Hotel Film Festival Scoring Competition.
In January 2023, I completed an intensive 6-month Cinematic Composing Program that included interactive master classes and critiques from illustrious film composers Javier Navarrete and Christopher Young, video game music composer Lennie Moore, and director Doug Campbell, in addition to a succession of critiqued exercises with multiple production music coaches.
In April 2023, I composed and orchestrated an original score for a 40 piece orchestra played by the FAMES project in Macedonia. In post-production I added virtual percussion, low brass, and mixed the ProTools audio files with the hybrid elements. I also edited the video captured during the recording and the resulting music video placed 3rd in the music video category at the 2023 International Indie Gathering Film festival.
In 2024 I received a nomination for “Best Original Score” by the Indie Series Awards #ISA14 in Burbank CA for the pilot episode of Ariel – When Doves Cry.

To collaborate on music or film or video projects that need custom compositions and/or sound design, please contact me at this link.

I am a member of ASCAP and the SCL – The Society of Composers & Lyricists

Awards and Nominations
2024 – Nominated for Best Original Score at the Indie Film Awards
2023 – 3rd Place Indie Gathering Music Video Contest
2022 – Finalist in the Indie Gathering Film Festival Scoring Contest
2022 – Finalist in the Horror Hotel Film Festival Scoring Contest
2021- Finalist in the Indie Gathering Film Festival Scoring Contest
2021- Finalist in the Horror Hotel Film Festival Scoring Contest
2020- Honorable Mention in the Indie Gathering Film Festival Scoring Contest
2020 -Honorable Mention in the Horror Hotel Film Festival Scoring Contest

Recent Film Projects and Collaborations (Director) Genre 2024
2025 Sinful Debt (Hemant Kumar) Supernatural Thriller
2025 Bright Lights Dark Shadows (Micah Stoll) Thriller Short
2025 Belly Button (Ademola Richards ) Mini-series 6-episode Drama
2025 The Bunglers (Kurtis Griffin) Comedy
2025 Getting Even (Tyler Thomas) Dark Comedy, Hitman
2024 Blood and Breakfast (Mark Byrne) Whodunnit Horror Feature
2024 Clark V.Fox: Dragonfly on the Wall (Mark Byrne) Documentary Feature
2024 Repentance (Tyler Thomas) Drama
2024 Blood and Breakfast Trailer (Mark Byrne) Bombastic trailer
2024 The Final Goodbye (Tyler Thomas) Drama
2024 300K Cash (Tyler Thomas) Crime Drama, Comedy
2024 Brutal Flowers Logo (Tyler Thomas) audio logo
2023 Alvin, the Enlightened (Michelle David) Outdoors, finding meaning
2023 Realm of Creation (Nic White). The 3 ghosts of Procrastination
2023 Les Noyes (TJ Cooley). WWI War espionage drama
2023 The Dark Side of Dawn (Tj Cooley) Supernatural Horror
2023 Cacodemon (Tyler Thomas) Supernatural Horror
2023 Ariel – When Doves Cry (Amy McKorkle) Emotional Crime Drama
2022 Momentum collaborative rescore projects – Dramas
2022 For Love and Blood (Hemant Kumar). Zombie,Love
2021 The Perfect Family (Micah Stoll) Disturbing Obsession, Horror
2021 Dysfunctional Family Practice (Phillip Anjin) Medical Comedy web series
2020 Alvin the Alien (Michelle David) Sci-Fi

Music Videos (self-produced)
2025 In the Morning Live studio recording of a jazz piano trio. P
2025 Minnesota overdub recording process piano, synth bass, guitar
2024 Three Meditations Meditation music and photography
2023 The River Never Sleeps Composed and orchestrated an original piece for a 40-piece orchestra.

Links to my artist pages on your favorite streaming platforms

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