Bethany Barrett

Musician, composer, sound designer

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- Hello and welcome to my portfolio! Here you will find various recordings and soundtracks - that I have produced over the last few years. I hope you find something you enjoy. I am - always available for new commissions and client work. Please email me at - to start a conversation. Thanks! -

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- 🦄 Bethany -

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Fireworks

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- Part 1: Fireworks - - -

- Part 2: The Flame - - -

- Part 3: The Melt (Club scene) - - -

- Part 3: The Melt (Outro) - -

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Bethany Barrett

Musician, composer, sound designer

- Soundtrack for a short film depicting a love story about missed connections. Shot on the Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G, the film was commissioned by Xiaomi to show off the cinematic potential of their new smart phone camera. The acoustic guitar theme establishes a classic movie house vibe, while the electronic tracks follow the lovers to their climax. -

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Neues von Zuhause

- 2021 - -

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- Trier / Isolation - - -

- Circus Corona - - -

- News Stand / Helicopter - - -

- Dark Streets / City Lights - -

+ Hello and welcome to my portfolio! Here you will find various + recordings and soundtracks that I have produced over the last few + years. I hope you find something you enjoy. I am always available for + new commissions and client work. Please email me at + + to start a conversation. Thanks! +

- I scored the feature-length documentary Neues von Zuhause, directed by Dominik Galizia. The film documents the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of a solitary individual, who narrated his experience as it happened through WhatsApp voice messages. Music pervades the film, at times heightening the sense of unease and isolation, while also highlighting moments of hope and humor that break through. Features rich Moog leads, pads from the Roland Alpha Juno, and haunting modular wavetable drones. -

+ 🦄 Bethany +

»click the stars« (Kunst im Unterground)

- 2021 +

Fireworks

+ 2021 -

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- BVG Theme Song - -

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+ Part 1: Fireworks + + +

+ Part 2: The Flame + + +

+ Part 3: The Melt (Club scene) + + +

+ Part 3: The Melt (Outro) + +

- As part of Kunst im Unterground 2020/2021, I soundtracked an audio essay that accompanied an art intervention on the BVG. The artist, Philine Puffer, took online Google reviews of Berlin U-Bahn stations and displayed them on Berliner Fenster, the passenger television program on the Berlin subway. Her audio essay explains how these reviews comment on the contemporary urban environment, where neutral, functional spaces like train stations become sites for online social critique; pieces of this BVG "Theme Song" were used throughout. -

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SocialSim

- 2020 - -

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- Glacial Catacomb - - -

- Ennio Morricone - Rabbia e Tarantella - -

+ Soundtrack for a short film depicting a love story about missed + connections. Shot on the Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G, the film was + commissioned by Xiaomi to show off the cinematic potential of their + new smart phone camera. The acoustic guitar theme establishes a + classic movie house vibe, while the electronic tracks follow the + lovers to their climax. +

- Hito Steyerl’s 2020 installation SocialSim used one of my dungeon synth compositions, Glacial Catacomb, as the music inside an art gallery‘s “secret VIP room” full of self-evolving artworks. For the film’s credits, I arranged a rendition of Ennio Morricone's Rabbia e Tarantella (1974), performed using guitars, drums, and synths. -

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Drill

- 2019 - -

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- Mass Shootings (1999-2018) - - -

- AR-15 (2016-17) - - -

- Firearms Manufactured (1986-2016) - - -

- Yale Marching Band - Mass Shootings (1999-2018) - -

Neues von Zuhause

+ 2021 -

- Drill was a film shot by Hito Steyerl at the Park Avenue Armory in New York City. The piece centered around gun violence in America, both its history with the founding of the NRA at the Armory in 1871, and the present-day condition where mass shootings happen nearly every week. These data sonifications act as timelines of gun violence, where each beat marks the passing of a month, and each note represents a tragic incident. Through this process, a dark melody naturally emerges. -

- I scored the film using data sonifications of mass shooting data, performed using the Deepmind 12 and JX-8P synthesizers. These were later arranged and performed by the Yale University Precision Marching Band in the Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall. -

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This is the Future / Power Plants

- 2019 - -

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- Flowers of Inequality - - -

- Six Days - -

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+ Trier / Isolation + + +

+ Circus Corona + + +

+ News Stand / Helicopter + + +

+ Dark Streets / City Lights + +

- Hito Steyerl's This is the Future / Power Plants used my drones to illustrate a garden of - flowers with the power to cure social media addiction, hate speech and austerity propaganda. - The film was presented in 2019 at the Venice Biennale. -

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Figaros Wölfe

- 2017 - -

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- Rooftop - - -

- The Walk / Edgar's Theme - - -

- Hauser's Theme - - -

- Gilbert & Colette - - -

- Hell Theme - - -

- Cold Sweat / Mescaline - - -

- Edgar's Theme II - - -

- Time To Die - - -

- Making Peace - +

+ I scored the feature-length documentary Neues von Zuhause, + directed by Dominik Galizia. The film documents the first year of the + Covid-19 pandemic from the viewpoint of a solitary individual, who + narrated his experience as it happened through WhatsApp voice + messages. Music pervades the film, at times heightening the sense of + unease and isolation, while also highlighting moments of hope and + humor that break through. Features rich Moog leads, pads from the + Roland Alpha Juno, and haunting modular wavetable drones. +

»click the stars« (Kunst im Unterground)

+ 2021 -

- I composed the soundtrack to Dominik Galizia's film Figaros Wölfe, a feature-length psychological drama about a woman overcoming her past trauma through the help of a friend. The synth-driven score features some of my favorite instruments, including the Roland JX-8P and the Moog SubPhatty. Parts of the score were later used in Dominik's cult hit film Heikos Welt (2021). -

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+ BVG Theme Song + +

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+ As part of Kunst im Unterground 2020/2021, I soundtracked an + audio essay that accompanied an art intervention on the BVG. The + artist, Philine Puffer, took online Google reviews of Berlin U-Bahn + stations and displayed them on Berliner Fenster, the passenger + television program on the Berlin subway. In an audio essay, she + observes how these reviews comment on the contemporary urban + environment, where neutral, functional spaces like train stations + become sites for online social critique; pieces of the BVG “Theme + Song” were used throughout her piece. +

+ +

SocialSim

+ 2020 + +

+ +

+ Glacial Catacomb + + +

+ Ennio Morricone - Rabbia e Tarantella + +

+ +

+ Hito Steyerl’s 2020 installation SocialSim used one of my + dungeon synth compositions, Glacial Catacomb, as the music + inside an art gallery‘s “secret VIP room” full of self-evolving + artworks. For the film’s credits, I arranged a rendition of Ennio + Morricone's Rabbia e Tarantella (1974), performed using + guitars, drums, and synths. +

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Drill

+ 2019 + +

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+ Mass Shootings (1999-2018) + + +

+ AR-15 (2016-17) + + +

+ Firearms Manufactured (1986-2016) + + +

+ Yale Marching Band - Mass Shootings (1999-2018) + +

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+ Drill was a film shot by Hito Steyerl at the Park Avenue Armory + in New York City. The piece centered around gun violence in America, + both its history with the founding of the NRA at the Armory in 1871, + and the present-day condition where mass shootings happen nearly every + week. These data sonifications act as timelines of gun violence, where + each beat marks the passing of a month, and each note represents a + tragic incident. Through this process, a dark melody naturally + emerges. +

+ I scored the film using data sonifications of mass shooting data, + performed using the Deepmind 12 and JX-8P synthesizers. These were + later arranged and performed by the Yale University Precision Marching + Band in the Park Avenue Armory Drill Hall. +

+ +

This is the Future / Power Plants

+ 2019 + +

+ +

+ Flowers of Inequality + + +

+ Six Days + +

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+ Hito Steyerl's This is the Future / Power Plants used my drones + to illustrate a garden of flowers with the power to cure social media + addiction, hate speech and austerity propaganda. The film was + presented in 2019 at the Venice Biennale. +

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Figaros Wölfe

+ 2017 + +

+ +

+ Rooftop + + +

+ The Walk / Edgar's Theme + + +

+ Hauser's Theme + + +

+ Gilbert & Colette + + +

+ Hell Theme + + +

+ Cold Sweat / Mescaline + + +

+ Edgar's Theme II + + +

+ Time To Die + + +

+ Making Peace + +

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+ I composed the soundtrack to Dominik Galizia's film + Figaros Wölfe, a feature-length psychological drama about a + woman overcoming her past trauma through the help of a friend. The + synth-driven score features some of my favorite instruments, including + the Roland JX-8P and the Moog SubPhatty. Parts of the score were later + used in Dominik's cult hit film Heikos Welt (2021). +

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