Paul Sebastien

Paul Sebastien is a composer and marketing officer. He joined Beatnik (then known as Headspace) in 1995, as his music publishing company Power of Seven was acquired, which led to him becoming the Director of Production for Beatnik, meaning he managed all of its music collections. He created several music tracks for the Headspace Music Library and produced many variants, such as short and audio versions. He also worked on several soundbanks, including ones allegedly intended for mobile phones.

Outside of Beatnik, he is well known for being part of the techno music group, Psykosonik, during the 90s. He also composed for video games such as Obsidian and Oni. After leaving Beatnik in 1998, he shifted his career towards being a marketing officer, and has worked for various companies such as Microsoft, Sony and Offensive Security. He is currently the chief marketing officer for an unannounced Web3 startup. However, he has since worked on other music projects such as solo releases and as part of the duo Basic Pleasure Model.

Career at Beatnik
Following the acquisition of Power of Seven and later Steve Hales' SoundMusicSys, Sebastien served as the Director of Production for Beatnik, and managed the Headspace Music Library. Most of his composition work consisted of creating music in a wide variety of genres and styles for anyone who needed music for their projects, some of which were intentionally close to the sound featured in his Psykosonik work. To create music tracks in the RMF format, Sebastien used a Mac and connected a MIDI sequencer to the Beatnik Audio Engine, so he could directly interact with it and its instruments. He would later create audio versions of these, which largely feature the same instruments and samples but with more advanced mixing; these appear on several Headspace Music Library CDs published by FirstCom.

Along with music tracks and management, Sebastien also worked on soundbanks. He felt that creating the smaller banks was particularly challenging, as he had to shorten and downsample the samples as much as possible, while ensuring that they sounded legible. These banks were made not long after the larger ones, although it is unknown if these were ever used on devices, as Brian Salter is known to have created many of the mobile soundbanks for miniBAE and mobileBAE; unlike Salter, Sebastien did not continue to do any work with Beatnik after leaving in 1998. It is more likely that he worked on compressed versions of larger soundbanks rather than creating mobile soundbanks from scratch.

Music tracks

 * Aqua Sky — Music & Arrangement
 * Backwaters — Music & Arrangement
 * Bleulight — Music & Arrangement
 * CamelWorld — Music & Arrangement
 * Caureal — Music & Arrangement
 * Cave — Music & Arrangement
 * Chunnel — Music & Arrangement
 * Cloud Fight — Music & Arrangement
 * Cozy — Music & Arrangement
 * Darwinian Peak — Music & Arrangement
 * Deser_Ted — Music & Arrangement
 * Essence — Music & Arrangement
 * Ethnik — Music & Arrangement
 * Frenitian — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Later used as a Sony Ericsson ringtone]
 * Garden of Time — Music & Arrangement
 * Grinning Pound — Music & Arrangement
 * Happy Go Lucky — Music & Arrangement
 * HardTek — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Later appears as an unused ringtone on the Motorola W205]
 * House — Music & Arrangement
 * KraftyTechy — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Later used as a Sony Ericsson ringtone]
 * Lost Beach — Music & Arrangement
 * Lush Lagoon — Music & Arrangement
 * Modern Rock — Music & Arrangement
 * Moodrider — Music & Arrangement
 * Mystical Cave — Music & Arrangement
 * Napexpandir — Music & Arrangement
 * Night Factory — Music & Arrangement
 * Personal Twilight — Music & Arrangement
 * Phosphorescent — Music & Arrangement
 * Popster — Music & Arrangement
 * Prague Train — Music & Arrangement
 * Precipice — Music & Arrangement
 * Schizo-Trance — Music & Arrangement
 * Shibuya-Ku — Music & Arrangement
 * Sociable — Music & Arrangement
 * Sun Sai — Music & Arrangement
 * SynchoTronic — Music (with Brian Salter) & Arrangement (with Brian Salter)
 * Tao Preperation — Music & Arrangement
 * Techno — Music & Arrangement
 * Teneres Dunes — Music & Arrangement
 * Travelling — Music & Arrangement
 * Vampster — Music & Arrangement
 * Viscerania — Music & Arrangement
 * Waiting Game — Music & Arrangement

UI sounds

 * applauncher — Music & Arrangement
 * bellweather — Music & Arrangement
 * cascaderup — Music & Arrangement
 * celloaccent — Music & Arrangement
 * doubleclicker — Music & Arrangement
 * entrysnapper — Music & Arrangement
 * Fanfare-CorpSting1 — Music & Arrangement
 * Fanfare-Finished — Music & Arrangement
 * Fanfare-Majesty — Music & Arrangement
 * Fanfare-Presenting — Music & Arrangement
 * fluteyopen — Music & Arrangement
 * friendlypad — Music & Arrangement
 * hi-popclick — Music & Arrangement
 * Hits-Magic — Music & Arrangement
 * hornstabber — Music & Arrangement
 * lo-popclick — Music & Arrangement
 * lowstaberbreathe — Music & Arrangement
 * lusherdrone — Music & Arrangement
 * lushopen — Music & Arrangement
 * marshimmer — Music & Arrangement
 * metalfolderopen — Music & Arrangement
 * synthtoggler — Music & Arrangement
 * tickermove — Music & Arrangement
 * womperhit — Music & Arrangement
 * zoopover — Music & Arrangement