GARDEN NO. 19 OF 28
GLASSHOUSE GARDEN VOL. 1
Total playing time: around 70 minutes.
Remixed and remastered on 4th July 2020.
Composed and played by MANUEL CHIEREGATO.
Scored for percussion orchestra and choruses.
The »GARDENS« project:
CONCEPTS
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CALL
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CONCEPT.
It is the house of glass, where the life of plants is guarded, but also forced to accelerate. Garden of irresistible and unnatural goodies; subject to careful studies and systematic care. Here the best is selected, diversity is tolerated and thrives, but only if it falls within production standards. From the outside you can see the army of plants lined up in perfect rows, obediently waiting for the god who will multiply them. Betrayals are not allowed, here...
It is the garden of those who feel the need to control their every desire, every innermost drive, selecting only the best for themselves. Normality and modesty are not for him: he feels called to much more! To achieve this, it does not tolerate deviations from the established route; however, at times an excruciating doubt assails him: that the best pages of his life have not yet been written?
REVIEW BY VALERIO SANTI.
Seriality of glass that surrounds the small but persistent sonorous industriousness of the plants collected in it; task of the human is not to divert sight and hearing from that fabulous process of accumulation and synthesis.
Narzole (CN - Italy), 26th June 2018.
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 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
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".
VALERIO SANTI. Born in Narzole on 4th November 1955. Poet, art critic, painter. Winner also of the competition promoted by the editorial LA REPUBBLICA about the 100 contemporary Italian poets. He participates as a painter in about twenty individual and group exhibitions, with awards in various competitions, including the 1° PREMIO PRESIDENTE CENTRO PAVESIANO MUSEO CASA NATALE (ie. 1st Prize President Pavese Center Birthplace Museum), in the XX EDIZIONE DEL PREMIO NAZIONALE DI PITTURA CESARE PAVESE 2009 (ie. 20th edition of the Cesare Pavese National Painting Award 2009). Bibliography: LA PAROLA E IL SUO SGUARDO (i.e. "The word and its gaze"), poetry; Comanducci 2009 Catalog, painting; Radio Fossano, Radio Piedmont, Radio Valle Belbo and Rai Tre, performances.
a PRALADRIT ART COLLECTIVE production.
