Film & Dance
Summer Dregs is an Emmy & Image Award Winning audio engineer and composer. He has been commissioned by dance companies around the country to write original music for original choreography. These works have played everywhere from NYC to Paris to Rwanda. Genres cover everything from protest songs to modern classical. Explore some of my past work below. Here is a Spotify playlist of some of my dance work.
He has also worked on films including the Emmy & Image Award-Winning How to Sue The Klan, and the The Most Memorable Art. Commercials he’s scored include Office Depot, Oral-B, and Samsung.
Light On A Hill
During the 2025 LA fires, the neighborhood of Eaton, CA burned to the ground. Every building decimated except for one. This is the story of that Korean family restaurant and how it became a hub for the decimated community around it.
Composer | Full Soundtrack
How To Sue the Klan
An Emmy and Image-award winning documentary of how five Black women used legal ingenuity to take on the Ku Klux Klan in a case still cited in courtrooms to this day.
Sound Design & Mix || Film Website
The Most Memorable Art
A short doc about memories lost, memories gained, and how art intersects with it all.
Composer
What You Want
A Ballet commissioned by Ariel Rivka Dance for their 2022 and 2023 Spring Seasons. Since it debut at NYU it has toured the world, including in Paris and Rwanda.
This Machine
A song made from sewing machine sounds to tell the story of the garment industry in my hometown.
Elina Ballerina
A children’s ballet based on the book “Elina Ballerina” about an elephant whose only dream to dance on stage for her animal friends.
Remember this house Remix
Composed by Summer Dregs and Mon Rovia
For the dance film The Light We Share.
The fiim has aired on PBS multiple times.
One Small Step
A ballet exploring humanity and beauty through 1s and 0s. One small step is how it begins. Commissioned by Kevin Jenkins for Belhaven University.
Whiplash
A ballet by Kevin Jenkins and Ballet Counterpointe.
Full Score and Details
95 Bars
A collaboration with Chattanooga Ballet
Full Score and Details
Home
An immigrant story.
Music composed by Summer Dregs.
Summer Dregs
is music producer and engineer Carl Cadwell. He specializes in working with artists to bring stunningly unexpected and unique works to life.