Ben Babbitt | th

Composer Milton Babbitt's influence on contemporary music is inestimable. His innovative use of the human voice, his infusions of electronic tape sounds into live performances, his serial compositional techniques and pioneering work in synthesized sound, all broke new ground in the music world. His compositions, with their twelve-tone structures, complex mathematical tonal combinations, and synthetic sounds, offered up with Babbitt's cerebral explanations, evince serious purpose, energy, and wit. His influence has been achieved as much through his extensive writings on music as through his music itself. His relative lack of concern with audience appeal is perhaps itself one of the...

Ben Babbit is a Los Angeles (United States) based musician whose style incorporates experimental ambient music which involves use of synthesizers as well as live instruments. Babbit is foremost known for his work on the soundtrack of the magical realistic adventure game Kentucky Route Zero. On the soundtracks for the game series, released in 2013, 2014 and 2016, Babbit incidentally works together with vocalist Emily Cross and upright bass player Bob Buckstaff, as well as Andy Spillman. Ben Babbitt is also part of the Los Angeles based group Junebug. .