Ben Kelly is an American composer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Los Angeles, California. He works in a variety of different musical styles, including electronic, metal, jazz, punk, pop, hip-hop, orchestral, post-rock, and ambient. He has written and produced for films, commercials, podcasts, documentaries, pop artists, as well as his own individual projects “Wandermere” and “something something sincerity.”

After years of studying classical piano, Ben joined the International Academy of Jazz in San Diego, California and learned the craft under the tutelage of multi-time Grammy Award-winner Kamau Kenyatta, as well as esteemed players Gilbert Castellanos, Charles McPherson, and Marshall Hawkins. At the same time, he studied both electric and Spanish classical guitar, honing his skills as a member of various metal bands and jazz combos.

He refined his skills at Yale University, receiving instruction in music composition, history, and technology under preeminent contemporary classical music scholars Dr. Kathryn Alexander and Konrad Kaczmarek. Throughout his time at Yale, he also received a mentorship from composer and producer Jordan Plotner, through which he was able to work on projects such as Crypto-Z and Beyond The Blue Wall — the latter of which giving him his first solo scoring credit. He continued this work for the duration of his tenure at Yale, working with student filmmakers on a variety of short films. Upon completion of his studies at Yale, Ben began producing and composing music for artists in the Los Angeles area, working in genres ranging from pop to trap to Russian romance.

In 2021, he released the first EP for his artist project “Wandermere” — Postdrome EP. The Wandermere project has continued to grow, amassing over 100,000 streams in over 70 countries, and effortlessly blurs genre lines, incorporating influences from dubstep, house, midtempo, romanticism, baroque, metal, funk, jazz, soul, and disco over two EPs and 10 singles. 2023 saw the birth of his second artist project, “something something sincerity,” under which he released powerful and dynamic post-rock debut album, you’re not who i thought you were.

Since 2023, he has been perfecting his craft at the ICON Collective College of Music in Los Angeles, studying music production in a program that has produced multi-platinum producers such as SLANDER, NGHTMRE, Sullivan King, Kayzo, and Jauz.

Ben believes wholeheartedly in the power of music to fuel revolution — whether external or internal. And his experience in a plethora of styles gives him the tools necessary to do so. Music, to him, is neither a hobby nor even a passion; it’s a public service. World-changing artists and ideas exist everywhere. And Ben has wholly committed himself to the task of providing those artists with the resources required to get those ideas heard. He considers himself to lucky to be able to do so.