Andrea works in Berlin as a composer, live performer and electronic music producer. Beside his practice under his real 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 & musique concrète territories (eg Nomeri—Tere, Tableaux Vivant, Mycorrhiza).

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. 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 been a regular guest-composer at renowned sound research institutes such as STEIM Amsterdam, EMS Stockholm, WORM (Rotterdam) and Willem-Twee Studios (Den Bosch, NL) where he further developed his investigation in analog 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
Throughout 2020 and 2021 he started 5HT2, a bass music/early dubstep project which entails studio-based work as well as live performance. Challenging his own experimental/abstract approach to music making, as 5HT2 he composes and performs dancefloor tracks played on-the-fly with hardware instruments—which allows him to maintain their functional nature, while making space for much more flexibility and fluidity.
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