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About Andrea Rocca
- Andrea Rocca (born 9 June 1969, Rome) is an Italian musician, guitarist and film composer.
- Rocca moved to London in 1988 where he trained with John White and graduated in ethnomusicology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in 1997.
- He studied classical guitar as a child but eventually lost interest and by his late teens was planning to become a reportage and war photographer.
- Discovering the electric guitar reignited his interest in music and soon he was composing and recording pieces inspired by musicians like Frank Zappa, Bill Harkleroad, Marc Moreland and Derek Bailey.
- He quickly developed an interest in punk and alternative rock, and the music of avant-garde bands such as the Residents together with the work of classical and jazz composers like Edgar Varese, John White, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Sun Ra.
- He began scoring feature-length films in 1995, with Kaprice Kea's The Hurting.
- His work alternates film scoring, dance and theatre commissions, and live performance.
- He is involved with several bands in London's avant-garde music scene.
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