Brian Salter

Brian Salter is a composer who worked for Beatnik. While initially working freelance, he joined the company in 1996 but left in 1998 to became freelance again. He wrote many music tracks and ringtones while working there, as well as aiding the design and testing of their software such as SoundMusicSys (which later became miniBAE). Outside of Beatnik, he has also composed for a handful of video games and production music houses.

Work at Beatnik
Salter was employed by game development company Presage during 1994, but left the following year. In 1996, he was contracted to create music for WebTV using SoundMusicSys. Thomas Dolby was also involved, and was so impressed by the engine that he acquired it for his company Headspace. This led to Salter joining said company as a composer, where he wrote several tracks in a variety of styles for the Headspace Music Library. However, he left during 1998 to become freelance again, feeling that their technology only had appeal to a niche market until it was later adapted for mobile phones and PDAs.

Despite leaving, he continued to do contract work for the company, now renamed to Beatnik. He continued composing tracks for the library, as well as CD audio versions for FirstCom Music's CD releases of library material, including writing all of the tracks for four CDs. He also created many miniBAE sound banks, such as Nokia's small and large sound banks. After briefly moving to Japan, he worked on projects for many of Beatnik's Japanese clients, as well as a Yamaha SMAF version of the Headspace Music Library. This impressed Sony Ericsson, who contracted him to write ringtones for their phones.

Work at Nokia
Salter appears to have worked on the miniBAE sound banks for Nokia, including the small and large banks. Prior to those, he created a bank named SalterNokia, which appears to have been a predecessor to the small and large banks. He also composed ringtones included on phones in Nokia's Fashion Collection, which includes the 7260, 7270, and 7280. All three feature a handful of jazz ringtones, which are most likely his work. It is also possible he wrote other ringtones for earlier phones.

Work at Danger
Salter later went on to do contract work for Danger, creating the music and sound effects for games such as Pumpjack, Omega and Bubblespin.

Music tracks

 * Accelerate It — Music & Arrangement
 * Advantage Revealed — Music & Arrangement
 * Aerialize — Music & Arrangement
 * Affectionate — Music & Arrangement
 * Ah-Ha — Music & Arrangement
 * Ajarna — Music & Arrangement
 * Ambient — Music & Arrangement
 * Anticipation — Music & Arrangement
 * Anxiety-Attack — Music & Arrangement
 * Area 19 — Music & Arrangement
 * Artifact — Music & Arrangement
 * Attack Magnet — Music & Arrangement
 * Auroras — Music & Arrangement
 * Beneath The Bridge — Music & Arrangement
 * Big Entrance — Music & Arrangement
 * Bitterdeep — Music & Arrangement
 * Blue Fog — Music & Arrangement
 * Bugbreaker — Music & Arrangement
 * Busybody — Music & Arrangement
 * Cafe — Music & Arrangement
 * Celestial — Music & Arrangement
 * Chillin — Music & Arrangement
 * Chop Squad — Music & Arrangement
 * Colossus — Music & Arrangement
 * Contemplate — Music & Arrangement
 * CorpTag — Music & Arrangement
 * Counterstrike — Music & Arrangement
 * Crash Programmed — Music & Arrangement
 * Creeping-Fear — Music & Arrangement
 * Crickets — Music & Arrangement
 * Criticalities — Music & Arrangement
 * Curious — Music & Arrangement
 * Cyan Glass — Music & Arrangement
 * Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy — Arrangement
 * Dark Facets — Music & Arrangement
 * Divided Lies — Music & Arrangement
 * Earth And Sky — Music & Arrangement
 * Easy Altitude — Music & Arrangement
 * Evening Star — Music & Arrangement
 * Eye On The Past — Music & Arrangement
 * Fallen — Music & Arrangement
 * Force Of Insight — Music & Arrangement
 * Fun With Numbers — Music & Arrangement
 * Glimmer — Music & Arrangement
 * Grab-Em — Music & Arrangement
 * Grandeur — Music & Arrangement
 * Graverobber — Music & Arrangement
 * Groove Deux — Music & Arrangement
 * Hardliner — Music & Arrangement
 * Health And Safety — Music & Arrangement
 * Hi-Tech — Music & Arrangement
 * Illusion Phase — Music & Arrangement
 * Intermission Time! — Music & Arrangement
 * Irradiator — Music & Arrangement
 * Itralysc — Music & Arrangement
 * JetSet — Music & Arrangement
 * Jewel Edge — Music & Arrangement
 * Jungle — Music & Arrangement
 * Komputordome — Music & Arrangement
 * Kule Guy — Music & Arrangement
 * Little Boss — Music & Arrangement
 * Lounge — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Also known as Lounge Lizard and Kat 'n Mouse]
 * Loungy Sixties — Music & Arrangement
 * Luminous Channel — Music & Arrangement
 * Man O War — Music & Arrangement
 * Mirage — Music & Arrangement
 * Monkey — Music & Arrangement
 * Mourning — Music & Arrangement
 * Mystical — Music & Arrangement
 * Nature — Music & Arrangement
 * Netherworld — Music & Arrangement
 * Network Chatter — Music & Arrangement
 * Night-forest — Music & Arrangement
 * Number One — Music & Arrangement
 * Nuroflora — Music & Arrangement
 * Obliquia — Music & Arrangement
 * Ocean — Music & Arrangement
 * Offbeat — Music & Arrangement
 * Pastorale — Music & Arrangement
 * Piano — Music & Arrangement
 * Pixie Kicks — Music & Arrangement
 * Profile — Music & Arrangement
 * Promises — Music & Arrangement
 * Prospects — Music & Arrangement
 * Quietude — Music & Arrangement
 * Race Against Fate — Music & Arrangement
 * Rainforest — Music & Arrangement
 * Refracted — Music & Arrangement
 * Reminisce — Music & Arrangement
 * Renegado — Music & Arrangement
 * Rum Punchy — Music & Arrangement
 * Sasquatch — Music & Arrangement
 * Saucer Problems — Music & Arrangement
 * Second Horizon — Music & Arrangement
 * Seethroo — Music & Arrangement
 * Sfx-Medley — Music & Arrangement
 * Shrinktank — Music & Arrangement
 * SmoothGroov — Music & Arrangement
 * Sociable — Music & Arrangement
 * Stalkers — Music & Arrangement
 * Starting Strategy — Music & Arrangement
 * Stowaway — Music & Arrangement [NOTE: Later used as a Sony Ericsson ringtone]
 * Submerged — Music & Arrangement
 * Subtle Signs — Music & Arrangement
 * Subtle — Music & Arrangement
 * Sunlane — Music (with Thomas Dolby) & Arrangement (with Thomas Dolby)
 * Swing Up — Music & Arrangement
 * SynchoTronic — Music (with Paul Sebastien) & Arrangement (with Paul Sebastien)
 * Techy — Music & Arrangement
 * The Big Onion — Music & Arrangement
 * Time Of Trials — Music & Arrangement
 * Timefold — Music & Arrangement
 * Trance — Music (with BitGrinder) & Arrangement (with BitGrinder)
 * Tricky Tracks — Music & Arrangement
 * Tripwire — Music & Arrangement
 * Tropicalist — Music & Arrangement
 * Twilight Visitor — Music & Arrangement
 * Two Ways Home — Music & Arrangement
 * U-Turn — Music & Arrangement
 * Vanguard — Music & Arrangement
 * Vostok — Music & Arrangement
 * Warning Signs — Music & Arrangement
 * Watch Yer Back! — Music & Arrangement
 * We Don't Stop — Music & Arrangement
 * We Wish You a Merry Christmas — Arrangement
 * What Child is This — Arrangement
 * Wind — Music & Arrangement
 * Windchimes — Music & Arrangement

Ringtones

 * Star Trek theme — Arrangement