Andrea Senatore aka Cynic is a composer, a multi-instrumentalist, a performer and a singer. A musician involved in art in different ways from sound experimentation to multimedial research. Andrea Senatore started to take piano lessons at the age of 7. He eventually studied guitar and drums. In the late 90′s, charmed by the many possibilities offered by electronic music, he bought his first synth, he took up again the study of harmony and begun to record experimental works that gained him the attention of independent movie directors and producers, with whom he has since collaborated.

In 2006 he founded Scientist&Cynic, an electro/pop project. The duo made their debut in 2007 with the album “Primatoid”, a work praised by the critics and the public on the local and international music scene. The song Far From Me, written by Andrea, was included in the compilation “Soundsation” released in collaboration with Sony/BMG, meanwhile the song The Quiet Gnome was used by Los Angeles label Stroboscopic Records and from the net-label Muertepop. The song Far From Me also won the topnotch competition Demo Rai and consequenly the track was aired for one year on Rai radio Uno. In that same year Andrea started an active collaboration with cello player Giovanni Sollima and played with the noise maker Andrea Martignoni and video artist Saul Saguatti. He has participated in workshops and seminars with some of the biggest names in classical electronic music (among others: Giorgio Nottoli, Giuseppe Di Giugno, Lybin Dmitry etc.).

In 2008 he released “Fractal”: his debut with the label Recycle Records (Irma records).

In 2010 he obtained a diploma in “Music applied to new technologies” at the conservatory “N.Piccinni” in Bari.

In 2011 he released the Ep “4 Types of Me”(Miraloop Records)and the remixes “Chicago”(Recycle Records), “Thrills”(Miraloop Records)and “Falling”(Miraloop Records. In that same year he also composed the soundtrack of the video “Pompei città da scoprire” (director Francesco Domenico D’Auria, soundtrack Andrea Senatore)which has been selected to represent the city of Pompeii @ BIT (International tourism exchange) 2011 in Milan.

In 2012 he signed with the prestigious label Minus Habens(EMI) that will release his new album “De/Nucleo” which is the result of his collaboration with the cello player Giovanni Sollima, one of the most representative composer on the international scene.