MINIATURE GARDEN 1
8-PART CANON 2

Composed by MANUEL CHIEREGATO for alto recorder and electronics.
Dedicated to and played by NADIA PROUSCH.
In memory of ALDO CLEMENTI.

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 "MINIATURE GARDEN".
It is the garden of miniaturized plants whose care, according to the old legend of Takamuro, helps to maintain a youthful appearance forever: to those who questioned him about his love for bonsai, he replied that, by identifying ourselves with the world in small, we can remain always children. Looking down on this dwarf landscape, we feel we are immortal gods, that everyone knows and everything can.
It is the garden where everything is reduced enough to be placed under your domain. You try to gain total control over what is around you, but - unable to do so - you would be content even to tame it or at least to bridle its unpredictability by offering your protection in exchange. Nevertheless, you feel yourself among the few able to find the cosmic meaning enclosed in small things.

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

NADIA PROUSCH.
Born in 1979 in Brunico (BZ). First musical education in San Martino in Badia with Iarone Chizzali and Jutta Cristofolini, in the following years in Brunico with Petra Niederwolfsgruber. In 1996 and 1998, first prize in the Austrian youth competition "Prima la Musica", i.e. "Music First!". Since 1998 study of recorder at the University of Vienna with Hans Maria Kneihs. Degree in March 2005 with honors. Winner of various university prizes. Postgradual study at the "Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten" with Walter van Hauwe. Advanced courses with Gerd Lünenebürger and Lorenzo Cavasanti. Several concerts throughout Europe: Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Italy and Switzerland. Since 2007 she is a teacher at the Musical Institute of the Province of Bolzano.

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.

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".

Recorded in Nalles (BZ) on 16th March 2019.

a PRALADRIT ART COLLECTIVE production.