Andrea works as a composer, live performer and producer in the fields of acousmatic/electro-acoustic and electronic music. Beside his practice under his given name, he operates as 5HT2 and as Gondwana. He’s also known for his work with Lumisokea (Opal Tapes, Alter, Eat Concrete).

Altogether, he has (co) written 22 albums and counting, published on different media such as vinyl, cassette, dubplate and digital, via labels Mille Plateaux /Force. inc (DE), Hands in The Dark (FR), Opal Tapes (UK), Type (USA), OOH-Sounds (IT), SM-LL (UK), Präsens Editionen (CH), Syncopathic Recordings (AT), receiving enthusiastic reviews & write-ups.

The scope of his work ranges from all-electronic explorations (eg Nattdett, Mama Matrix, Zimni Kral, Biomimetics), to electro-acoustic & acousmatic territories (eg Nomeri—Tere, Tableaux Vivant, Mycorrhiza), musique concrète escapades (Chaoticism You Can Do At Home), to live PA bass music for the dancefloor (5HT2).

Much of Andrea’s published work under his real name focuses on pioneering equipment (such as that employed at Radiophonic Studios back in the 1950s), as well as iconic analog synthesizers (ARP 2500 a.o.).

Andrea is a graduate of the Amsterdam Conservatoire, where he completed a Bachelor in piano and an electronic music program (Bmus). During his years in Holland he had the chance to dive headlong into free-jazz and non-idiomatic improvisation, then gradually transitioning to electro-acoustic & electronic music, before moving to Berlin to further his practice. Nowadays he feels most at ease in the territory of composed music, although the elements of surprise and impromptu still play a big role both in his compositional and performative practices.

With his solo and collaborative projects he has performed at Cafe OTO, CTM, Mutek, Rewire, LEV, Bozar, Ohm, Mediaspank, IfZ, Moers Festival, Roter Salon/Volksbühne, ZKM, Griessmühle, Club Gretchen, Arkaoda, Cave 12, OHM, FAQ, VCFB Humboldt University, North Sea Jazz Festival, a.o. and toured in Europe, the US, Canada, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Japan and South Korea

He has carried out residencies at renowned sound research institutes such as STEIM Amsterdam, EMS Stockholm, Signallabor/Humboldt University Berlin, WORM Rotterdam and Willem-Twee Studios (Den Bosch, NL) where he further developed his investigation in analog computation & synthesis, extended techniques, reel-to-reel tape treatments, recording and composition.

Some of his international residency projects received support from the Goethe Institut and the Italian Institute of Culture

He is the author of the essay “A Disturbance in the Airwaves”, included in the 2025 publication “Ultrablack of Music vol. 2” , commissioned by the late Achim Szepanski of Mille Plateaux.

Alongside his music studies, he completed a Bachelor degree in Psychology (B.Sc) at the “Milano Bicocca” University, with a thesis titled “The Systemic-Relational Model: from theoretical tenets to its modern applications in psychotherapy“, which was partly informed by an internship at a facility for abused children. To this day, the area at the intersection with neurosciences, the arts and the healing potential of naturally occurring psychedelics still occupies his mind and inspires his work