PERFORMANCE: Time Pieces, Gabriel Cohen & Ben Babbitt
“Time Pieces” is a collaborative installation by Gabriel Cohen and Ben Babbitt that explores the structure and perception of time through sound, sculpture, and collective experience.
At its core is a twelve-hour ambient composition by Babbitt, originally created to accompany Cohen’s large-scale clock tower sculpture. The piece unfolds in hourly movements, tracking time through shifting tonal patterns, phasing pulses, and moments of disruption—like time itself slipping, stretching, and reforming.
For this new presentation at NOON Projects, the installation has been reimagined and expanded. Multiple synchronized sound systems transmit the composition via FM signal, creating a spatially immersive environment. At sunset, a new choral work by Babbitt will premiere, performed live by twelve singers who echo, extend, and reframe the original score—activating the space as both a timekeeper and a vessel for shared resonance.
A limited-edition 12-CD box set will be available, featuring a newly reworked version of the original composition and original artwork by Cohen.
Ben Babbitt is a composer and producer based in Los Angeles whose work spans live performance, studio albums, DJ mixes, film and video game music, and collaborations with other artists including Eartheater, Martine Syms, Zia Anger, Bapari, Colin Self, and new music ensemble Wild Up. In 2024 he began performing and releasing music under the moniker Enhancement and together with writer Steph Kretowicz makes up the band Ultra Instinct. His work as both a solo artist and collaborator has been presented at the V&A Museum, London; the Art Institute of Chicago; SCI-ARC, Los Angeles; Perth Institute of Contemporary Arts; MOMA, NYC; 3HD Festival, Berlin; and the Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Gabriel Cohen is an artist based in Los Angeles, CA. The core of Cohen's artistic practice is the speculative completion of the projects of artists associated with Acephale in the 1930's and artists working within the parameters of minimalism in the 1960's (and his perception of their mutual interest in the reunification of a fractured world). Cohen's conceives of his work as being expressly political, addressing the queer subject within western history, the contemplation of death - and in particular its association with queer life -, and the existence of the self within the collective.