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Michael Sempert

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  • Music Department
  • Producer
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Mike Sempert
Michael Sempert's music is equal parts heart and craft. He has composed original scores for award-winning feature films Sex Weather, A Room Full of Nothing and Homestate as well as the Nickelodeon TV movie Bixler High Private Eye. His original songs have been licensed for television by ABC's Grey's Anatomy, Netflix' Bloodline and many more. In 2015, Sempert and fellow composer Peter Bayne co-founded West Channel, a commercial music house whose clients include Electrolux, Disney Jr, and Visa as well as the non-profits Change Heroes and the UN Foundation. Sempert graduated from the double-degree program at Tufts and New England Conservatory of Music ('04) in his home town of Boston, MA with a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Composition. While living in the Bay Area of California, Sempert was lead singer and music director for the band Birds & Batteries, writing and producing five critically acclaimed albums and performing hundreds of shows around the US. Pitchfork described their 2009 EP Up To No Good as "a high-concept mashup of two of the slickest eras of pop production." Mike's first solo album, Mid Dream was released on Velvet Blue Music in 2014 and included the song "Finest Line", which was licensed for television as well as viral videos accruing over 22 million views on YouTube. In 2015, Sempert released an album of instrumental jazz-fusion electronic music under the moniker Volcanic Legacy, with companion video-remixes of BBC's Planet Earth. His second solo album, Tend the Flame was released on his label Eightmaps Records in 2017 and features the single "Distance", which has been licensed by multiple TV shows and accrued over half a million plays on Spotify. Sempert's third solo album, Reunion of Sparks was released on Infinity Maps, July 9th, 2019. Sempert's latest feature film A Room Full of Nothing premiered at Method Fest in Los Angeles in 2019 and won the Maverick Award for Quality in Low-Budget Filmmaking. Sempert's score features a hybrid of atmospheric synth and organic original songs. Sempert's short film Dynamite, directed by Leila Jarman and featuring Maceo Paisley premiered at Outfest LA 2019 and will go on to BAFTA-affiliated Aesthetica Short Film Festival in London.
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Michael Sempert
Mike Sempert with Blaise Miller at Austin Film Festival, 2016.
Mike performing for TED@IBM at SF Jazz Center, 2015
Michael Sempert, Maceo Paisley and Leila Jarman at Outfest 2019
Video still from "Finest Line" official music video
Michael Sempert
Sempert at Miami Film Festival 2023

Known for

Sissy Spacek, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, and Kyle Chandler in Bloodline (2015)
Bloodline
7.9
TV Series
  • Music Department("For a Long Long Time")
Ed Begley Jr., Mike C. Nelson, Jace Norman, Ariel Martin, and Samiyah Womack in Bixler High Private Eye (2019)
Bixler High Private Eye
6.0
TV Movie
  • Composer
  • 2019
A Room Full of Nothing (2019)
A Room Full of Nothing
3.3
  • Composer
  • 2019
James Pickens Jr., Ellen Pompeo, and Chandra Wilson in Grey's Anatomy (2005)
Grey's Anatomy
7.6
TV Series
  • Music Department("Distance")

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Composer

  • Summoning the Spirit (2023)
    Summoning the Spirit
    • Composer
    • 2023
  • Priest (2022)
    Priest
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • Sarita Cronyn, Jon Garcia, and Joe Jatcko in Shady Cove (2022)
    Shady Cove
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2022
  • BAJG (2021)
    BAJG
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • The Kid Who Only Hit Homers (2021)
    The Kid Who Only Hit Homers
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2021
  • Tiffany Groben in Emma (2021)
    Emma
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2021
  • Love in Dangerous Times (2020)
    Love in Dangerous Times
    • Composer
    • 2020
  • A Seasonal Thing (2019)
    A Seasonal Thing
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2019
  • Antônio Carlos, Daniel Alexander, and Pascale Seigneurie in Roads to Olympia (2019)
    Roads to Olympia
    • Composer
    • 2019
  • A Room Full of Nothing (2019)
    A Room Full of Nothing
    • Composer
    • 2019
  • Ed Begley Jr., Mike C. Nelson, Jace Norman, Ariel Martin, and Samiyah Womack in Bixler High Private Eye (2019)
    Bixler High Private Eye
    • Composer
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • Dynamite (2018)
    Dynamite
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Jeff Loveness in Stock (2018)
    Stock
    • Composer
    • Short
    • 2018
  • Amber Stonebraker and Al'Jaleel McGhee in Sex Weather (2018)
    Sex Weather
    • Composer
    • 2018
  • Jaywalking (2018)
    Jaywalking
    • Composer
    • 2018

Music Department

  • Mckenna Grace in Just Beyond (2021)
    Just Beyond
    • songwriter
    • TV Series
    • 2021
  • Bruce Willis and Megan Fox in Midnight in the Switchgrass (2021)
    Midnight in the Switchgrass
    • composer: additional score
    • 2021
  • Ed Begley Jr., Mike C. Nelson, Jace Norman, Ariel Martin, and Samiyah Womack in Bixler High Private Eye (2019)
    Bixler High Private Eye
    • music editor
    • TV Movie
    • 2019
  • James Pickens Jr., Ellen Pompeo, and Chandra Wilson in Grey's Anatomy (2005)
    Grey's Anatomy
    • writer & performer: "Distance"
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Teri Polo, Sherri Saum, Cierra Ramirez, Maia Mitchell, Noah Centineo, David Lambert, and Hayden Byerly in The Fosters (2013)
    The Fosters
    • writer & performer: "What I Want"
    • TV Series
    • 2018
  • Frank Grillo in Kingdom (2014)
    Kingdom
    • writer & performer: "The Weather"
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Sissy Spacek, Linda Cardellini, Norbert Leo Butz, and Kyle Chandler in Bloodline (2015)
    Bloodline
    • writer & performer: "For a Long Long Time"
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Priyanka Chopra Jonas in Quantico (2015)
    Quantico
    • writer & performer: "Distance"
    • TV Series
    • 2017
  • Toni Collette, Molly Shannon, Katie Aselton, and Bridget Everett in Fun Mom Dinner (2017)
    Fun Mom Dinner
    • composer: additional music
    • 2017
  • Melissa George in Heartbeat (2016)
    Heartbeat
    • writer & performer: "Distance"
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • Emma Ishta in Stitchers (2015)
    Stitchers
    • writer & performer: "Distance"
    • TV Series
    • 2016
  • The Missing Girl (2015)
    The Missing Girl
    • writer & performer: "Finest Line"
    • 2015
  • Julie Benz, Grant Bowler, and Stephanie Leonidas in Defiance (2013)
    Defiance
    • writer & performer: "Finest Line"
    • TV Series
    • 2014
  • Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Taylor Momsen, Leighton Meester, Jessica Szohr, Chace Crawford, and Ed Westwick in Gossip Girl (2007)
    Gossip Girl
    • writer & performer: Lightning UTNG Version
    • TV Series
    • 2010

Producer

  • Mike Sempert: Survival
    • producer
    • Music Video
    • 2014
  • Birds & Batteries: Be My Girl
    • co-producer
    • Music Video
    • 2012

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