Bethany Barrett
Musician, composer, sound designer
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 converation. Thanks!
🦄 Bethany
SocialSim
2020Hito 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. The film’s credits music was my rendition of Ennio Morricone's Rabbia e Tarantella (1974), performed using guitars, drums, and synths.
Drill
2019Drill 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 (the Armory is where the NRA was founded) and the present-day situation where mass shootings happen nearly every week. I scored the film using data sonifications of mass shooting data, performed using the Deepmind 12 synthesizer and JX-8P. These were later arranged and performed by the Yale University Precision Marching Band in the Drill Hall at the Armory. Finally, I composed two long drones using income inequality data.
This is the Future / Power Plants
2019Hito Steyerl's This is the Future / Power Plants used one of my drones to illustrate a garden of imaginary flowers. It showed in 2019 at the Venice Biennale.
Figaros Wölfe
2017I 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.
