GARDEN 1 OF 28
ANCIENT GARDEN VOL. 11
Total playing time: about 7 hours.
Composed by MANUEL CHIEREGATO for organ and electronics.
Dedicated to and played by MARA PALUMBO.
In memory of ALDO CLEMENTI.
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The »GARDENS« project:
CONCEPTS
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CALL
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GENERAL NOTE.
Music to meditate, to feed the imagination, to increase concentration, to promote relaxation or the awakening of the soul.
Music to tell a story, to read a poem, to draw inspiration, to write a tale, to act on a stage, to venture into the realm of fantasy, crossing unknown and secret gardens without moving from the sofa.
Music conceived in imitation of nature: like a river, always equal to itself but always changing, on whose banks to lie down without expecting anything.
Music that creates dreamlike and hypnotic atmospheres, for multimedia artworks, ambient backgrounds, audio/video/light installations in public or private places.
CONCEPT OF "ANCIENT GARDEN".
Century-old plants, twisted roots, shady rooms invaded by ivy, pergolas overloaded with vines; the air is full of oppressive scents, nature becomes one with the surrounding house. It is the garden of ended time, the mythical place of voices, that exist now only in memory, where one penetrates as in a shrine, looking for clues...
If this is the garden that fascinates you, you need to reconcile the present and the past, to know yourself through the history of those who were the roots from which your existence sprouted. You will find the lost peace by going back in time, perhaps writing about yourself to a addressee who is no longer...
CONCEPT BY TIZIANA COMIS, inspired by the book DI CHE GIARDINO SEI? CONOSCERSI ATTRAVERSO UN SIMBOLO (What's your Garden? Self-knowledge through a Symbol) by DUCCIO DEMETRIO, to whom our most sincere thanks go.
CURRICULUM VITAE
MARA PALUMBO.
Born in Ivrea in 1994, after graduating from the scientific high school, she decided to undertake musical studies under the careful guidance of maestro Riccardo Sgubin. She attended the organ class of Gianluca Cagnani at the Turin Conservatory and now attends the organ studies at the Aosta Valley Music Institute with the maestro Paolo Bougeat. She performed in concert in Aosta and Champoluc. Her repertoire includes music by Franck, Pergolesi, Lefébure-Wély, Sweelinck, Handel, J.S. Bach, Boëllmann and Vivaldi.
MANUEL CHIEREGATO.
Born in Bolzano on 5th June 1978, composer. He privately studied violin and then piano and composition at the Bolzano Conservatory. He is coauthor of Ο ΑΦΡΟ∆ΙΤΑΣ ΚΑΠΟΣ, i.e. "The Garden of Aphrodite", a 1996's non-narrative multilingual script (revised in 2007 and 2008), written for the shooting of 13 interdependent dadaistic video artworks, developed on his original idea, characterized by experimentalism and multiple figurative, literary and cinematographic references. Engaged in music composition since the early 1990s, from 2017 to 2020 he composed, played and published about 200 hours of music for video art. His music was in exhibition in Aosta (2018), Milan (it appears in the "Memorie Abbandonate" catalog by "Circuiti Dinamici", 2018) and Turin (International Exhibition ART AWAKENS THE SOUL - ИСКУССТВО ПРОБУЖДАЕТ ДУШУ at the Exhibition Hall of the Piedmont Region, 2019).
TIZIANA COMIS.
Born in Morges (Switzerland) on 8th September 1961, mosaicist. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Ravenna. She makes mosaics with traditional and contemporary techniques and materials. CHAIR 14, one of her sculptural furniture, is in permanent exhibition at the INARTTENDU ART GALLERY in Aosta. Manager of the GARDENS project, she is the author of the subject inspired by Duccio Demetrio, on which Manuel Chieregato composes his music and on which Vittorio Gazzera is developing the script for GARDENS: A SPACE OPERA.
VITTORIO GAZZERA.
Born in Pinerolo (TO) on 22nd August 1983, screenwriter and film director. His artistic research on the perception of reality is declined in feature and short films, television series and video installations. Among his main works: BUNKER and L'UOMO DAL FIORE IN BOCCA, (i.e. "The Man with the Flower in His Mouth" from the 1922's one-act play by Luigi Pirandello), played by Christian La Rosa, and the 3D animation ALPINE (from GARDENS: A SPACE OPERA).
DUCCIO DEMETRIO.
Born in Milan on 6th March 1945, academic and essayist. Full Professor of Philosophy of Education and Theories and Practices of Narration at the University of Milan Bicocca, then Scientific Director of the National Research Center and Autobiographical Studies of the LIBERA UNIVERSITÀ DELL'AUTOBIOGRAFIA, i.e. "Free University of Autobiography", in Anghiari, which he founded in 1998 together with Saverio Tutino, and of ACCADEMIA DEL SILENZIO, i.e. "Academy of Silence".
a PRALADRIT ART COLLECTIVE production.
released February 6, 2020
MARA PALUMBO, organ.
MANUEL CHIEREGATO, composition and audio editing.
TIZIANA COMIS, concept and album cover design.