Musync^®: You Need Better Music!

Music Genius

Seb Jarakian is the head Musync Genius who supervises all final music track selections. His extensive experience working with music sets him apart from most, but his memory for the right music track cuts the selection process to near nothingness.

His expansive knowledge of all types of music including, but not limited to, electronica, dance, trance, chill-out, downbeat, abstract, electro, ambient, house, world, rock, alternative, modern rock, new wave, classical, hip-hop, 20’s, 30’s and 40’s jazz, popular, (but not country-western), has put him ahead of most music supervisors and music directors. He has a wide range of abilities with a focus on listening to and evaluating 20 to 30 new CDs every week.

He has worked deeply with numerous challenging and demanding personalities, as well as very tight deadlines and budgets. Seb is a good manager and has broad experience collaborating with project teams. He works well under pressure and meets deadlines while staying calm.

CEO & Chief Evangelist

Randy Schroeder is the evangelist for Musync. He assists Seb and the other Musync team members as a behind-the-scenes advisor. He helps instigate relationships that lubricate the gears of the company using collaboration, cooperation, win/win, and humor. He is the Marketing Director and CEO of Musync.

His depth of experience in media consulting, broadcast television production for ABC, and multimedia production for BlueWave, gives him the skills to bring the right people together in order to instigate successful projects that work well for everyone involved.

Music Catalogist

Phoebe Meharg is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley where she majored in mass communications.

She joined the team at Musync last year and is in training to be a music supervisor or, as we like to say, Music Genius.

Phoebe has been passionate about music for many years. Borderline obsessed, really. Her favorite genres include early 70’s punk, hip-hop, indie rock, and twee pop. Whether talking about it, listening to it, researching it, reading about it, or buying it, there is not a lot of time that goes by when she is not actively engaged with music in one form or another.

In the future, Phoebe hopes to fuse her love of music with her love of films and become a full-fledged music supervisor for Musync. Her ultimate goal is to expose as many people as possible to the music that she loves and to the bands and artists that she thinks need and deserve attention.

Song Scribe

From an early age, music has been an integral part of Jamie Evangelista’s life.

As a child, she was exposed to a wide range of music. Her initial curiosity and interest developed through her father’s extensive CD collection which had some of almost everything, from The Beatles to Black Sabbath, from The Carpenters to Neil Young. Heck, it even had singles from Rick Astley. It was also in her formative years that she dabbled in ballet lessons, hula-dancing, singing in a children’s choir, and guitar lessons. At all of these, she failed miserably.

Jamie had an epiphany and figured out that performance wasn’t her thing, but she was still determined to incorporate music into her life. She turned her musical passion into listening to it non-stop, attending live shows on a monthly basis, and writing about it in her weblog.

Currently, Jamie is a student at San Francisco State, majoring in English Literature. She joined Musync as a Song Scribe earlier this year and has learned quite a lot ever since. Eventually, Jamie hopes to translate her love of music, movies, and pop culture into a career helping deserving artists gain exposure and success.

Sales Guru

While working in the syndication business in the late 1990’s, Mark Pariser realized the growing opportunities in the music licensing arena.

Mark decided to pursue this direction in his career by taking a job at the largest music library in the world, APM (Associated Production Music). Right away, he became one of the top salespeople in the company. Mark left APM to become the Head of Sales of a smaller boutique company, Extreme Music, where he also excelled.

Four years later, Mark took his experience and contacts and started his own rep firm, 7 Out Music. Now in his 4th year, Mark has established himself as a one of the premiere music licensing sales reps in the country. He works with ad agencies, production companies, trailer houses, music supervisors, movie studios, and televisions networks. Mark’s catalogs have been featured in Die Hard 3, Eragon, and August Rush.” He provided track for multiple TV shows, including Ugly Betty, My Name is Earl, Without a Trace, Ghost Whisperer, and How I Met Your Mother. And Mark’s selections can be heard on national commercials for BMW, Burger King, Subway, Honda, and Ford, to name a few.

Mark joined the team at Musync in 2007 and continues licensing great tracks for great productions.

Music Guru

Frankii comes to us with years of experience working in A&R, A&R Soundtracks, Music Supervision and music replacement.

He spent 7 years at Capitol records starting as a temp and working his way up to National Marketing and Promotional Director in less then a years time but his big break came when he got into feature film and television as he loved the idea of working with artists outside the realm of his label and Frankii has the gift to hear a piece of music and instantly picture a scene in his mind. His grandmother sang with the Boston Symphony and was asked by Guy Lumbardo to tour with him, as well, on his mothers side, his grandfather hand made violins as well as painted on canvas.

“It’s in the blood man, you can run from it, but the perfect cue at the right time can have the audience on the edge of their seats or crying like babies.” He continues: “Music can make or break a film and I’ve personally witnessed films rise from the dead with great music.”

Frankii has a long track record for working with some of the best Music Supervisors in the business before becoming one himself at Groove Addicts where he turned a jingle and branding house into a trailer, TV, Feature Film music placement as their In House Music Supervisor, “being the eyes and ears of knowing what the producer wants is important, knowing what he likes, dislikes are all important, but sometimes you have to inject your own direction and taste and meld it with them, as a Music Supervisor, it’s part of your job to make sure the right piece of music is in the right place and sometimes a producer may not know that, being that vehicle that bridges your ideas with the producers for the film or show to make it that much better, is what matters at the end of the day.”

Frankii also brings with him numerous forward thinking ideas and has worked on numerous feature films, television shows, as well as with music software developers such as Sony, Tascam, Ultimate Sound Banks Sibelius, to name a few and has brought the artist and technology together with Sample CD releases and has more projects lined up to help todays up and coming composers. He also has a strong passion for guitars and tube amplifiers, he says “..the American 1960 Coke Bottle 6L6 tubes are the best tubes ever made, in the right amplifier, it can have the sound of nature or the rampage of hell.”

We look forward to using his Marketing and Promotional ideas and know that Frankii is going to have great success working with us. He presently is a demo check listener for Demo Check, he has worked as a listener for Taxi Music Services and helped break Jon Secada and Selena into the American marketplace, and he hasn’t even scratched the surface yet.