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Andri Søren performs and produces live electronic music, and is also the artist behind several projects, spanning the genres of house and disco under the Native Speaker and L'Andri monikers, together with live singing and voice as Søren Ólsen, going in-between bright, low-tempo synthpop to dark, driving electro. As sonøren he produces dark, lush ambient electronica.

Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, with Icelandic origins, Andri is currently based in Brussels; the vibrant, chaotic and contradictory capital of Europe and Belgium, active organising club nights and concerts as well as performing and producing.

Performances are always live, often running on ableton and push, often completely improvised and unrehearsed, while being based on an ever-developing live set into which years of synth-hunting, technique-development and ideas have gone. He starts with a blank canvas, and starts painting. Now and then he'll mix this live set with playing out existing tracks, a sort of hybrid DJing.

Learning to play the piano and the violin from an early age, and once a tenor in a choir, the impulse behind live performances are to enjoy as much as possible the possibilities of improvisation and experimentation, employing the incredible versatility of 'digital' performing techniques and tools such as step-sequencers and modulation automation together with the analogue through the playing and performing of various instruments; sampled, synthesised, or sung. It is the moment of making, of creating which is the most exciting, rather than performing an existing track or piece as perfectly as possible.

Recent appearances include performing live in Reykjavik for Iceland Airwaves, Beursschouwburg and De Haus in Brussels, and Stockholm S in Antwerp.