Ben Babbitt
Ben Babbitt is a Los Angeles–based artist and musician for independent films and video games. He is a founding member of the video game development studio Cardboard Computer, where he wrote the soundtrack for Kentucky Route Zero.
Career
Babbitt has been making music since a very young age, and comes from a musical family with both parents playing in orchestras in Chicago.Since 2011, he has been a member of the band Pillars & Tongues with Mark Trecka and Elizabeth Remis, and contributed to their 2013 album 'End-Dances', numerous small-edition tape releases, in addition to touring extensively throughout the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Babbitt has exhibited work with Cardboard Computer at the V&A Museum in London, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Moving Image in New York City, and the Museum of Pop Culture in Seattle, as well as the Getty Museum, in Los Angeles, and the Field Museum in Chicago.
In 2019, Babbitt collaborated with Angel Olsen on her album All Mirrors, providing most of its string arrangements, and playing multiple instruments on the album.