Andrea Taeggi (born 1982 in Bergamo, Italy) works in Berlin as a composer, live performer and electronic music producer. Beside his practice under his real name, he operates as 5HT2 and formerly as Gondwana. He's also known for his work with Lumisokea (Opal Tapes, Alter, Eat Concrete). Altogether, he has (co) written over 20 albums, published on different media such as vinyl, cassette, dubplate and digital, via labels
Mille Plateaux/Force inc. (DE), Opal Tapes (UK), Type (USA), OOH-Sounds (IT), SM-LL (UK), Präsens Editionen (CH), Syncopathic Recordings (AT).
His research and interest include the physicality of sound, its tactile quality and implied 3 dimensionality, the gray area between acoustic & electronic sources, sacred-geometry-rhythms, novelty instruments, the "wholly other", the disassociative & hypnotic power of repetition, the alchemical dream, self-irony, special-interest objects, the fictionality of recorded audio, its non-referential aspects and the attempt to stretch the cultural borders of (traditional) music instruments.
Andrea Taeggi 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. In other words, he can be best described as a performer and re-worker of his own studio material.
