GARDEN 1 OF 28:
»Ancient Garden 2 / alma real, dignissima d’impero«
from the »2020 Edition« of MASSIMO RESTIFO PECORELLA's version
of MANUEL CHIEREGATO's »2022 Book 2 for Change«
on MAURICE RAVEL's (*) »Pavane pour une infante défunte«.

(*) ...Ravel once said that its title is meaningless, but elsewhere he also commented that it is "an evocation of a pavane that a little princess might, in former times, have danced at the Spanish court"...
www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/classical/raveldebussy/recital2.shtml

EACH OF THE 57 TRACKS CAN BE PURCHASED INDIVIDUALLY.
Total playing time: about 15h.

Composed by MANUEL CHIEREGATO
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in the dear, joyous, familiar memory of JOHN CAGE.

Dedicated to and played by the clarinetist
MASSIMO RESTIFO PECORELLA.
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Inspired by the 2000 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.

Produced by PRALADRIT ART COLLECTIVE.
www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2226076414150586

Main links of the »GARDENS« project:
PROJECT manuelchieregato.eu/Composer/The_Gardens_Project.html
CONCEPTS drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lILma3TZd-DZUH1M05Nn31iyFnFtR6L3?usp=sharing
CALL FOR ARTISTS AND SCIENTISTS drive.google.com/drive/folders/1UA7ezie-wVSTEjFggvzNuyflc-YtK6Nc?usp=sharing

NOTE ON THE MUSIC OF THE »GARDENS« PROJECT:
The music of »Gardens« is conceived not only as base for improvisation and meditation, but also as soundtrack for cinematographic works and audiobooks, for the development of cinematographic and theatrical scripts, of contemporary dance choreography, of reworkings of non-contemporary dances, of art installations of videos and / or of sounds and / or of lights, of exhibitions of performance art, of tableaux vivants, of gymnastic disciplines and of any form of performative art, that is, not only dance, music and theater, but also illusionism, mime, marionette and puppet theater and circus art.
Conceived in imitation of nature, the music of »Gardens« is like a river, always equal to itself but always changing, on whose banks to lie down without expecting anything.

MUSICAL FORM:
»Ancient Garden«'s 176 albums featuring MASSIMO RESTIFO PECORELLA are divided into 8 cycles of 22 albums each. This album is part of the first cycle and its form is called »2020 Edition«: it is based on the almost perfect numbers and the sum of their proper divisors.

NOTE ON THE »GARDENS« PROJECT:
Musical and then multimedia transposition project of DUCCIO DEMETRIO's 28 Symbolic Gardens from »Di che giardino sei? Conoscersi attraverso un simbolo | What's Your Garden? Self-knowledge through a Symbol«, in which the intimate relationship with nature becomes self-knowledge. Musical transposition realized with a first process, radicalized with musical pictography, of progressive reduction of scores of the past to the dot and the line; organized in »Books for Change«, which derive, by varying them, conception and denomination from the translation of the »I-Ching« by JOHN BLOFELD. Multimedia transposition that begins where the compositional process ends up revealing the bare structure and intrinsic beauty of the musical scores. Evocative appeal to technology among magical thoughts in the forest of PRALADRIT, which welcomes and informs a project, which is the daily exercise of a path aimed at the essential, which began with the literal renunciation by its main author of all unnecessary material goods and largely developed with obsolete technological means although in dialogue with AI.

CONCEPT OF »THE FLUVIAL GARDEN« FROM THE PROJECT'S WORK PLAN.
drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lILma3TZd-DZUH1M05Nn31iyFnFtR6L3?usp=sharing
Age-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 house that it surrounds. It is the garden of elapsed time, the mythical place of voices, which now exist only in memory, where one penetrates as in a shrine, looking for clues…
It is the garden of those who need to reconcile past and present and to know themselves through the history of those who were the roots of their existence. They will rediscover the lost peace by going back in time, perhaps by writing about themselves to a recipient, who is no longer or who has never existed.

CURRICULUM VITÆ:

MASSIMO RESTIFO PECORELLA:
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Born in VENICE in 2000, graduated from the »Benedetto Marcello« Conservatory of Music in VENICE, he continued his studies at the MILAN Conservatory under the guidance of STEFANIA BELOTTI. He has attended the masterclasses of FABIO DI CASOLA, LORENZO COPPOLA, CALOGERO PALERMO, ANDREA MASSIMO GRASSI and follows the advanced courses of M° FABRIZIO MELONI. Winner of numerous prizes in national and international competitions. 1st prize both in 2013 at the National Competition »Città di | City of TRENTO« and in 2016 at the International Award Competition »Contea di | County of TREVISO«. 1st prize at the »CIMP Rossini International Competition« in PESARO. Special prize »Creativamente | Creatively« in PERUGIA. 1st prize at the »ISCART International Competition« in LUGANO. 3rd prize at the »Crescendo International Competition – POMIR«, which took him to play in ST. PETERSBURG. 3rd prize at the »International Orchestra Audition Awards« of the Samnium University of Music. 1st prize at the »KING'S PEAK International Competition« in CALIFORNIA. 2nd prize at the »Danubia Talents International Competition« in BUDAPEST. 2014: orchestral debut at the »Teatro Malibran« in VENICE. 2015: debut as a soloist at the »Palazzo delle Prigioni - Ponte dei Sospiri« with the »L.O.V. Orchestra«. As 1st clarinet he performed with »Movies Classic Orchestra«, »L.O.V. Orchestra«, »Orchestra of the Teatro Italia«, »National Wind Orchestra of the Conservatories«, »Orchestra of the Soloists of Radio Veneto 1«, »Filarmonici Friulani«, in the »Butterfly Project« (2017) and in the »Puccini Project« (2018). In July 2018 he participated in the »Guinness World Record«, on the occasion of which Italy obtained the record for the largest clarinet orchestra in the world. In 2018 and 2019 he performed at the »Ateneo Veneto«. In 2019 he collaborates with the »Mihail Jora« Philharmonic Orchestra of BACĂU (ROMANIA). At the »Gran Teatro La Fenice« in VENICE he performs WAGNER's works as 1st clarinet. In 2020 he performed with the »Youth Orchestra of the Conservatory«, participated in the »L.O.V.E. Project – Liquid Open Viral Ensemble 2020«, took part in the 22nd edition of the »Rencontres musicas de Méditerranée« in BASTIA (CORSICA). Read more:
(1) www.stringstheorymusicamp.it/speakers/massimo-restifo-pecorella-e-giulio-cattaneo/
(2) agimusvenezia.it/20190419.htm
(3) www.ilgazzettino.it/pay/venezia_pay/lido_l_m_c_era_anche_un_giovane_clarinettista_veneziano_massimo_restifo_pecorella-4236717.html

MANUEL CHIEREGATO:
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Born in BOLZANO (ITALY) on Monday, the 5th June 1978, and engaged in musical composition since the early 1990s, from 2017 to 2020 he composed and published some hundred hours of music as part of »Gardens«, a multimedia project aimed at every artist and scientist, inspired by »Di che giardino sei? Conoscersi attraverso un simbolo / What's Your Garden? Self-knowledge through a Symbol«, a 2000 book by DUCCIO DEMETRIO. This project has recently completed the process of incorporating all his previous projects such as »Drafts«, »Cathedrals«, »Great Waters«, »Actus Spei - Puppenspiel« and »Ὁ Αφροδίτας Κάπος | The Garden of Aphrodite«, a non-narrative multilingual script, written in 1996, revised in 2007 and 2008 and returned to be the subject of in-depth study from 2020, divided into 13 interdependent dadaistic video artworks, characterized by experimentalism and multiple figurative, literary and cinematographic references. Much of his musical repertoire is still unpublished. He collaborates with Italian artists - such as VITTORIO GAZZERA (video artist), NADIA PROUSCH (recorder player), MARA PALUMBO (organist), ANGELO TURCHI and AGNESE M. GARUFI (saxophonists), GUIDO PICARIELLO and FRANCESCA CHIOFALO (pianists) and ELISABETTA TAGLIATI (soprano) - and with other artists from around the world. His music has been exhibited in AOSTA (2018), MILAN (»Memorie Abbandonate«, 2018), TURIN (»Art Awakens the Soul«, 2019; »Paratissima«, 2023), PAESANA (2020), LONGARONE (»Arte in Fiera Dolomiti«, 2021) and VERCELLI (»Biennale Nazionale d'Arte«, 2022), appears in some art catalogs and has been the subject of interviews and broadcasts by »SafeCreative Italia Blog«, »Border Nights« www.youtube.com/live/RC2lUr9qlh0?si=o1uw3Mv8V4cX4aJV , »Radio Arca Italia«, the Guatemalan »Radio Experimental Progresiva« and the Chilean »Radio Ambient« www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJl2GAYocKw&t=313s . He was the creator, author and host of three multilingual cultural columns for the web TV »Valle PRO TV«: »Paesana Art Expo 2020« www.facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/322133535496646 »VallExPo« www.facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/386650409096516 and »Gardens – Sentieri Sonori di un Progetto Multimediale | Sound Paths of a Multimedia Project« www.facebook.com/watch/113016160418902/280687756638516 , in which details and curiosities of the development of the »Gardens« project are told. He was the creator and curator of the collective exhibition »Paesana Art Expo 2020« drive.google.com/file/d/1khB1Y4qeWCVJmbNxQEYHEpxNw3Zb0Rtq/view?usp=sharing . Winner in 2023 as a member of the »Libra Space Travel Agency« art collective of the video art award at the first Biennale Nazionale d'Arte »Città di VERCELLI« | National Art Biennial »City of VERCELLI«.

TIZIANA COMIS-ROGGER:
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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 »Ina(r)ttendu Art Gallery« in AOSTA www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2226076414150586 . Her works have also been exhibited in Turin (»Paratissima«, 2022 and 2023) and New York (»New York Art Expo«, 2023). 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«.

DUCCIO DEMETRIO:
Born in MILAN (ITALY) on 6th March 1945, academic and essayist. Full Professor of Philosophy of Education and Theories and Practices of Narration at the »Università degli Studi di | University of MILANO-BICOCCA«, then Scientific Director of the »National Research Center and Autobiographical Studies« of the »LUB - Libera università dell'autobiografia | Free University of Autobiography«, in ANGHIARI, which he founded in 1998 together with SAVERIO TUTINO, and of »Accademia del Silenzio | Academy of Silence«.

VITTORIO GAZZERA:
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Born in PINEROLO (ITALY) on 22nd August 1983, screenwriter, cartoonist, open to expressive forms such as painting and music, author of the comic strip »Gioventù Ustionata / Scalded Youth« and founder and drummer of a rock group. Since 2011 he has produced and directed films for his »Vertical Green Productions«. The art of the Tarot and the studies on the unconscious are the basis of his more mature production. 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 | The Man with the Flower in His Mouth« from the 1922's one-act play by LUIGI PIRANDELLO), played by CHRISTIAN LA ROSA, and »Alpine« from »Gardens: A Space Opera«, 3D animated video made as member of the art collective »Libra Space Travel Agency« and winner of the video art award at the first Biennale Nazionale d'Arte »Città di VERCELLI« | National Art Biennial »City of VERCELLI« youtu.be/w3R5U7CIsQY