Benjamin Bethurum

Benjamin Bethurum is a composer and product designer. He worked at Microsoft between 2004 and 2008 as a product designer (later being involved with the sounds for Windows Mobile) and at HTC between 2008 and 2013 as the lead sound designer, creating hundreds of ringtones and alerts at both companies. After leaving HTC in 2013, he has worked as a creative director at other companies such as Gogoro, Samsung and currently Facebook, and has also done contract work for companies such as TCL and Alcatel.

Outside of his product/sound design career, he has created a number of albums under the Bethurum alias.

Work at Microsoft
At Microsoft, Bethurum was involved in UX design for products such as Windows Mobile 5.0, but after showing higher ups his Versa Vice album, he was put in charge of creating all sounds for Windows Mobile 6.0, as well as downloadable ringtone packs and sounds targetted for specific carriers. He exclusively created audio ringtones so that people would not be "embarrassed by [their] cheesy, synthetic ringtone", and created a variety of genres so users could show off their musical taste. He also created UI sounds for the Zune, and Windows Vista's Ulimate Extras-exclusive sound schemes.

Work at HTC
Bethurum left Microsoft to join HTC in 2008, and created entire sound suites for several phones (later joined by fellow ex-Microsoft employee Luc Burson). His work for HTC features a different sound from his Microsoft work, making more use of samples, sophisticated synthwork and drum breaks. As many HTC phones ran Windows Mobile, his work from both Microsoft and HTC are present on them. He also composed for several commercials for the company's phones. Following his work on HTC Sense 5's sound suite, he left HTC to join the startup Gogoro.

Credits
This is a list of known tracks Bethurum has worked on that are in the scope of this wiki.

Microsoft
Note that his name appears in several sounds present in Microsoft products released after he left, such as Windows Mobile 6.5, the Microsoft Kin phones and Windows Phone 7, being credited as either the engineer and/or even the artist. He has confirmed he did not work on these, and that it is more likely Matthew Bennett had used his setup for exporting the WMAs. The metadata across those is very inconsistent.

Ringtones

 * Alerting — Music & Arrangement
 * Arial — Music & Arrangement
 * Bats — Engineering
 * Bells — Music & Arrangement
 * Below Freezing — Music & Arrangement
 * Black Ice — Arrangement
 * Cackle — Engineering
 * Caravan — Music & Arrangement
 * Carol Of The Beat — Arrangement
 * Charity — Engineering
 * Chimer — Music & Arrangement
 * Cirrus — Music & Arrangement
 * Comet — Music & Arrangement
 * Concrete Beat — Music & Arrangement
 * Confetti — Music & Arrangement
 * Cookies And Milk — Music & Arrangement
 * Creepy — Engineering
 * Day Dream — Music & Arrangement
 * Doppio — Music & Arrangement
 * Dusty Strings — Music & Arrangement
 * Flamenco Fire — Music & Arrangement
 * Frosty's Groove — Music & Arrangement
 * Full Moon — Music & Arrangement
 * Gamma — Music & Arrangement
 * Ghost — Engineering
 * Gritty Beat — Music & Arrangement
 * Guitar Ascending — Music & Arrangement
 * Guitaro — Music & Arrangement
 * Hard Mix — Music & Arrangement
 * Heart Strings — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Delay 2]
 * Hemiquaver — Music & Arrangement
 * High Score — Music & Arrangement
 * Hot Chocolate — Music & Arrangement
 * Howl — Engineering
 * Kinetic — Music & Arrangement
 * Locket — Music & Arrangement
 * Lucky — Music & Arrangement
 * Mi Amor — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Delay 1]
 * Midnight — Music & Arrangement
 * Mirage — Music & Arrangement
 * More Merry — Arrangement
 * Moving Forward — Arrangement
 * Neon — Music & Arrangement
 * Organic — Music & Arrangement
 * Owl — Engineering
 * Piano 1 — Music & Arrangement
 * Pipe Organ — Music & Arrangement
 * Pulsar — Music & Arrangement
 * Raining — Music & Arrangement
 * Reflection — Music & Arrangement
 * Refreshing — Music & Arrangement
 * Resonance 2 — Music & Arrangement
 * Rising — Music & Arrangement
 * Romantic — Music & Arrangement
 * Sailing — Music & Arrangement
 * Saturn — Music & Arrangement
 * Sleigh Bells — Music & Arrangement
 * Snow Flakes — Music & Arrangement
 * Standard — Music & Arrangement
 * Standard 2 (Windows Mobile - Extended Audio Pack 1) — Music & Arrangement
 * Standard 2 (Windows Mobile - Extended Audio Pack 2) — Music & Arrangement
 * Steal My Heart — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as The Heist]
 * T-Mobile — Arrangement
 * T-Mobile 2 — Arrangement
 * Tanktop — Music & Arrangement
 * Tasty Beat — Music & Arrangement
 * Tickle — Music & Arrangement
 * Timeline — Music & Arrangement
 * Timing — Music & Arrangement
 * Tunnels — Music & Arrangement
 * Update — Music & Arrangement
 * Vampire — Engineering
 * Vision — Music & Arrangement
 * Waterfall — Music & Arrangement
 * Wavelength — Music & Arrangement
 * Western Sol — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Sol Sol]
 * Whistler — Music & Arrangement
 * Windows Mobile — Music & Arrangement
 * Wishful Children — Music & Arrangement

Alarms

 * Bright — Music & Arrangement
 * Wake Up — Music & Arrangement

Alerts

 * Ascending Chimes — Music & Arrangement
 * Ascending — Music & Arrangement
 * Attention — Music & Arrangement
 * Chime — Music & Arrangement
 * Crystal — Music & Arrangement
 * Echo — Music & Arrangement
 * Emerald — Music & Arrangement
 * Exclaim — Music & Arrangement
 * Filler — Music & Arrangement
 * Floating — Music & Arrangement
 * Instant Message — Arrangement
 * Moving — Music & Arrangement
 * Ninja — Music & Arrangement
 * Outlook — Music & Arrangement
 * Rain Drop — Music & Arrangement
 * Steps — Music & Arrangement
 * Subtle — Music & Arrangement
 * Triangle — Music & Arrangement
 * Xylo — Music & Arrangement