Hosted by Los Angeles-based DJ and journalist Chris Kissel, the monthly dublab program Contact Wave enthusiastically celebrates the best experimental, avant-garde, psychedelic, and off-the-grid music crafted in L.A. and beyond.

This week’s show features an interview and DJ set with Ben Babbitt, a composer and artist based in Los Angeles. Since 2013, Babbitt has helmed the score and sound design for the episodic video game Kentucky Route Zero, and scored Amanda Kramer’s debut feature film Paris Window with a vinyl OST released by Not Not Fun in 2019. He has presented collaborative works at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC, the V&A Museum in London, Ars Electronica Center in Leipzig, and premiered his piece Overflows for four singers and quadrophonic electronics at the Getty Museum in July 2019. Also active as a producer and session musician, Babbitt has worked with How to Dress Well, Cross Record, Eartheater, and Angel Olsen, working closely with her as a multi-instrumentalist and string arranger on her newly released LP All Mirrors.

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Jan Winderen – Pasvikdalen – from “Pasvikdalen” (2019)
Ian Wellman – Distant Hope – from “Bioaccumulation” (Room40) (2019)
Carl Stone – Fujiken (Final Section) – from “Himalaya” (Unseen Worlds) (2019)
Maral – The Wind Will Carry Us – from “Mahur Club” (Astral Plane) (2019)
Don Cherry – Malkauns – from “Brown Rice” (EMI) (1975)
John Zorn – Chinatown – from “Naked City” (1990)

**Ben Babbitt Interview**

Ben Babbitt – Zwilling 1 – Paris Window – from “Paris Window” (Not Not Fun) (2019)
Ben Babbitt – The Landlord – from “Paris Window” (Not Not Fun) (2019)

**Ben Babbitt DJ Set**

UCC Harlo – Bach Gamba fucked
Gyorgi Ligeti – Mucica Ricercata, VII
Dasychira – Swirl (ft. Malibu)
the Bold & the Beautiful OST 1991 – Theme 7
Michele Mercure – Mother
Caterina Barbieri & Kali Malone – Glory
Ben Babbitt – 9/4 zeb set intro
Jurg Frey – Extended Circular Music
Ulla Straus – Big Room
David Lang – Wed
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