Today, I released a debut collaboration album with my friend Deborah Martin, entitled Hemispherica Portalis. We call our duo Desensitized...

In the Spring of 2017, I walked out onto the dunes of White Sands National Monument with my laptop, a controller, a bluetooth speaker, an...

Today is the 1st anniversary of one of my greatest achievements in life: the day I finally reached the summit of Mt. Hood in Oregon, wher...

My apologies for being out of contact and in case you didn't notice for letting this website go awol for a few months. Long story behind ...

Hello everyone. Please excuse my long delay in blog posts, especially in response to the Covid-19 pandemic. For much of the world, time h...

This is Dean De Benedictis. I suppose it’s time I finally post on this site about one of my heroes who recently passed—Lyle Mays. I did m...

Hello, this is Dean De Benedictis. I recently created a Soundcloud playlist that features all of my most innovative, heartfelt and curren...

This was a recent post on Dean's Facebook page. It's a poem he once wrote about decades on one of his album covers: Here are the words fr...

I’ve had some notable moments over the last year, and decade, so I’m going to take inventory and muse a little. Finally broadcasting live...

I don’t feel like I can be silent about what’s been happening in my life recently, so I’m finally making time to just write you here. I t...

A lot of folks know me and my work but they don’t know much about my latest collaborator, Frank Prinzen, the other half of Lyrus. Frank i...

Here's a video made for one of the ambient remixes on our new Lyrus album entitled Found In. This one is a deeply serene and Eno-eque rem...

Dean's collaboration with Orphan aka Frank Prinzen can be found on Touched Music. View the video and find track previews.