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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
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<i>🦄 Bethany</i>
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<h3>Hybrid</h3>
<small>2022</small>
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<span class="link" href="media/hybrid-nature.mp3">
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Nature: "Domestication is a process..."
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<span class="link" href="media/hybrid-sacrifice.mp3">
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Sacrifice: "I'm convined there's a solution..."
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Ritual (Chorus): "In a moment, a life is lost..."
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<i>Hybrid</i> is "an interspecies opera" by artist Heather
Dewey-Hagborg which explores xenotransplantation: genetically
modifying pigs to grow human organs. This piece presented a unique
challenge as I had to compose music for four vocalists, using somewhat
abstruse texts taken from interviews with scientists.
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<p>
With only a month to produce this piece, I was able to scout four
singers, arrange and record their performances, and perform the
instrumental backing (making special use of the Sequential Take 5 and
Korg Opsix) in time for the debut at MIT. I also produced full musical
scores, so that in the future, the piece can be performed live.
</p>
<h3>Homeday</h3>
<small>2022</small>
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Homeday
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<p>
I scored this short film about a small company that organizes a soccer
team to bring its employees closer together. The piece is upbeat and
follows them through a practice and a match.
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<h3>Fireworks</h3>
<small>2021</small>
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<span class="link" href="media/Fireworks Part 1.mp3">
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Part 1: Fireworks
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<span class="link" href="media/Fireworks Part 2 Synthwave.mp3">
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Part 2: The Flame
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<span class="link" href="media/Fireworks Part 3 Techno.mp3">
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Part 3: The Melt (Club scene)
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Part 3: The Melt (Outro)
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<p>
Soundtrack for a short film depicting a love story about missed
connections. Shot on the <i>Xiaomi 11T Pro 5G</i>, 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.
</p>
<h3>Neues von Zuhause</h3>
<small>2021</small>
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<span class="link" href="media/NVZ 1 - Trier.mp3">
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Trier / Isolation
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Circus Corona
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News Stand / Helicopter
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<span class="link" href="media/NVZ 4 - City Lights.mp3">
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Dark Streets / City Lights
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<p>
I scored the feature-length documentary <i>Neues von Zuhause</i> (<i
>News from Home</i
>), 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.
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<h3>»click the stars« (Kunst im Unterground)</h3>
<small>2021</small>
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BVG Theme Song
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As part of <i>Kunst im Unterground 2020/2021</i>, 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 <i>Berliner Fenster</i>, 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.
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<h3>SocialSim</h3>
<small>2020</small>
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Glacial Catacomb
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Ennio Morricone - Rabbia e Tarantella
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Hito Steyerl’s 2020 installation <i>SocialSim</i> used one of my
dungeon synth compositions, <i>Glacial Catacomb</i>, 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 <i>Rabbia e Tarantella</i> (1974), performed using
guitars, drums, and synths. This piece debuted at the K21 museum in
Düsseldorf and was later shown at the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
</p>
<h3>Drill</h3>
<small>2019</small>
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Mass Shootings (1999-2018)
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AR-15 (2016-17)
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Firearms Manufactured (1986-2016)
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Yale Marching Band - Mass Shootings (1999-2018)
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<i>Drill</i> 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.
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<p>
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.
</p>
<h3>This is the Future / Power Plants</h3>
<small>2019</small>
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Flowers of Inequality
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<span class="link" href="media/05 Bethany Barrett - Six Days.mp3">
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Six Days
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<p>
Hito Steyerl's <i>This is the Future / Power Plants</i> 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.
</p>
<h3>Figaros Wölfe</h3>
<small>2017</small>
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<span class="link" href="media/01. Rooftop.mp3">
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Rooftop
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<span class="link" href="media/02. The Walk - Edgars theme.mp3">
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The Walk / Edgar's Theme
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<span class="link" href="media/03. Hausers Theme.mp3">
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Hauser's Theme
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<span class="link" href="media/06. Gilbert & Colette.mp3">
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Gilbert & Colette
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<span class="link" href="media/07. Hell Theme.mp3">
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Hell Theme
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<span class="link" href="media/10. Cold Sweat - Mescaline.mp3">
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Cold Sweat / Mescaline
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<span class="link" href="media/12. Edgars Theme II.mp3">
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Edgar's Theme II
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<span class="link" href="media/15. Time To Die.mp3">
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Time To Die
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<span class="link" href="media/16. Making Peace.mp3">
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Making Peace
</span>
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<p>
I composed the soundtrack to Dominik Galizia's film
<i>Figaros Wölfe</i> (<i>Figaro's Wolves</i>), 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 <i>Heikos Welt</i> (2021).
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