Michael Ungar

One of the founding members of Sandblast, Mike is an award-winning sound designer and audio-post mixer who, as a jazz trumpeter, multi instrumentalist, and composer, has received acclaim throughout his career for his unique blend of technical skill and innate musicality.

Mike has mixed and sound-designed TV shows, promos, commercials, documentaries, animated specials, Up Fronts, indie films, award shows & marketing tapes and still has time to play tennis every now and then but that is just cause he gets up real early.

His mixing and music have been heard on a wide variety of projects and networks from cartoons like the original ThunderCats to Showtime’s Emmy Nominated documentary A Game of Honor; from the NFL’s documentary on the making of 2021’NFL Man of the Year Award, to the Degree, Castrol Oil, General Foods and Axe spots for Mindshare World Entertainment that aired during the Superbowl. His mixing for film work includes multi award-winning films like Man-Made, as well as Spinnaker and the documentary on legendary jazz bassist Buster Williams, From Bass to Infinity.

Over the years Mike created sound design and mixed the launch campaigns for network launches and reboots for The History Channel, TV Land, Nick at Night, Noggin, Syfy Network, USA, Sprout, PBS Kids, Logo, Paramount Network as well as program launches like Peacock’s hit series Bel Air, Vampire Academy and Wolf Like Me, Paramount Networks’ Ink Master, Ink Angels, Yellowstone, and Bar Rescue, and Nickelodeon’s Peter Rabbit, Bubble Guppies and Paw Patrol and dozens of projects for Sesame Workshop including Sesame and Audible’s recent collaboration Foley and Friends.

Michael wrote the theme for The Phred on Your Head Show, Girls vs Boys, PBS Kids, NBC’s Get UP and Move Stick Stickly specials and has written and produced music for many Sesame Workshop DVDs, including their most popular DVD of all time, Elmo’s Potty Time, and the series Sesame Beginnings. He also wrote and produced the Magilla the Gorilla Rap and is still waiting for the royalty check to come in after 60,000 plays on Boomerang and the Cartoon Network and over 3 million hits on YouTube.