Lyrics
The music
The project explores pop songs shaped by dancefloor experience, where electronic pulse, groove, and texture support an intimate, body-aware mode of listening.
Each song defines its own sound. House is the axis, with shifts into ambient, techno, and acid, alongside touches of acid jazz that introduce swing and loosen the rhythmic structure. Rather than blending genres, the music builds a sonic field that shifts with each track.
Rhythm structures time and sustains bodily movement. Textures, layers, and variations in arrangement shape the listening itself. Entries and exits of elements, shifts in intensity, and changes in density guide the progression of each track, transforming its surface over time.
The lyrics engage with relationships, desire, encounter, solitude, and displacement — situations rooted in contemporary life and the tensions that shape how we relate today.
Here, the dancefloor is not only a physical space, but a listening condition: a state of presence in which the body follows the pulse.
Andy Solan
Andy Solan is an autofictional persona through which Brazilian artist André Martinez revisits his own image and experiences from the 1990s. With the poetic license this construction allows, Andy inhabits another time — a “before”: a moment prior to the turn of the millennium, when experiences we now recognize were already being lived but had not yet taken shape in language. They were felt, moved through the body, and appeared as emotional accounts — without names, without stable form, without the parameters that today allow us to identify them.
From that position, he observes the present — relationships, encounters, the desire to be seen — through a gaze that does not organize feeling into categories or turn experience into judgment. Experience remains as sensation, lived as it unfolds.
Scenes do not appear as complete stories, but as fragments: bonds that persist even when they no longer work, encounters that do not resolve, situations that remain open. What matters is not resolution, but the state in which these relations exist.
This mode of construction is sustained by proximity. The work does not place itself outside what it observes, nor does it seek to explain it. It operates from within experience, allowing contradictions, repetitions, and impasses to remain visible.
The project is also a field of authorial aesthetic research. Andy’s universe and the construction of the persona emerge through a process in which music, image, language, and experience interact.
Music and lyrics are written by André Martinez, with melodies and harmonies developed with his brother Carlos. The vocal performance is hybrid, partly captured and partly synthesized.
The production incorporates generative tools for arrangements, textures, and variations.
Generative artificial intelligence enters this process as a production tool and as part of a broader investigation into how technological transformations affect artistic languages and practices.