PANEL - The State of Sync
Featured Speakers:
Andrew Weaver- Co-Owner, Music
Supervisor, Triple Threat Supervision
Andrew Weaver is a seasoned music supervisor and co-founder of music supervision company Triple Threat Music Supervision. Throughout his career, he has built an impressive and diverse resume music supervising films, TV shows, video games, and more through his time at Format Entertainment and Electronic Arts. Through his time learning under veteran music supervisors Anastasia Brown and Steve Schnur, he worked on studio-based TV shows and notable video game franchises.
Gooding - CEO, Kingdom 2 Music
Gooding is an American musician and songwriter born in Detroit, MI, and later raised in Wichita, KS. His music blends heartland rock, blues, and Latin with socially conscious lyrics that address issues such as poverty, addiction, and inequality. He is known for his “heart on his sleeve” live performances, touring relentlessly through 48 states, the UK, and Canada with well over 2,000 shows under his belt.
As a solo artist, he has written, recorded, produced, engineered, and mixed over 20 solo records and 120 additional records for his film/tv publishing company Kingdom 2, earning over 1,000 sync placements, making him one of the most prolific and most-licensed independent artists working today.
With experience on ‘the other side’ pitching music at various companies such as Round Hill Music and Visionary Media Group, he’s also secured placements for artists in Jack Daniels, Netflix, Hulu, FX, ESPN, CBS Sports, Ford, NBC, Hallmark, and more.
Now based in Nashville, TN, Andrew runs Triple Threat Supervision where he has worked on projects including Sound Of Hope: The Story Of Possum Trot, The Blind, Purple Beatz, Black Table, and Surprised by Oxford.
Gooding’s new album Paint was released on April 16, 2024. The album explores themes of self-doubt, regret, never living in the moment, the belief that "the grass is always greener,” and distancing from toxic people.
In addition to his music career, Gooding is known for his work in support of financial inclusion, using his platform to educate students about economic empowerment. He founded Funding The Future, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, and is currently making a documentary about his work with public schools around the United States and Canada. Funding The Future has reached over 250,000 students in 33 states.
For more information, visit www.goodingmusic.com or find him on all socials at @goodingmusic.
Liz Rogers- Owner & Creative Director, Anacrusis
Liz Rogers is the Owner and Creative Director at Anacrusis, where she oversees new signings, writer development, and pitching creatively for sync. Anacrusis has secured hundreds of placements for emerging artists in Nashville in dozens of shows, films, and advertising campaigns. Liz also is an independent music supervisor, working in film and advertising, and is a voting member of the Guild of Music Supervisors. Liz is the Co-Founder and current Vice President of Nashville In Sync (formerly the Nashville Film Festival Music Program), and an Advisor at the Entrepreneur Center. She was featured as the keynote speaker at Vanderbilt’s Entrepreneurship Conference 2022, and has spearheaded events like “The Pitch: An Evening with Music Supervisors”, and The Nashville House at SXSW, bringing awareness to the non-country community of writers and artists in Nashville. Liz was honored as one of Nashville's “30 Under 30”, and recognized by the Nashville Business Journal on the esteemed power players list “Women In Music City.”
Moderator: Mark Frieser-
CEO, Sync Summit and Disconic
Mark is an executive and entrepreneur who’s the founder of three companies in the music and tech spaces. The First, Sync Summit, founded in 2013, is an educational company that through its events, educational courses, listening sessions and thriving online community helps people creating and licensing music for media to connect, create, collaborate, learn and network with and from leading executives and thought leaders in television, advertising, brands, games, film and interactive media. His second company, Disconic is a sync agency that represents music from major labels and individual artists from across the world, including over 509% of the Japanese market and significant clients in Korea, Latin America, Europe and North America. His new company, Metavate.ai is developing a new solution to ensure better accuracy and updating of metadata across digital media.
