From Manuel Chieregato's »Books for Change«
on Orazio Vecchi's balletto
»So ben mi ch'a bon tempo / I know well who is having a good time«.

Composed by MANUEL CHIEREGATO
manuelchieregato.eu/Composer/CV.html

Dedicated to and sung by ELISABETTA TAGLIATI.
elisabettatagliati.it

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.
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In memory of JOHN CAGE.

Main links of »GARDENS«:
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

GENERAL NOTE.
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.

CONCEPT OF »THE FLOATING GARDEN« FROM THE PROJECT'S WORK PLAN.
The island garden is a landing place and salvation. Or maybe it's a big fish? It is the land of forbidden fruits and evanescent forms, inhabited by magic and strange animals. It is the garden of several gardens, where one is inside the other, and which the sea surrounds on all sides. We explore it enchanted, accompanied by the disturbing thought that its surface could be the back of a monster, which is about to sink...
It is the garden of those who desire wonder and, at the same time, contemplation; of those who love to find a peaceful haven, where they can refresh themselves from the bad weather of life, but then want to come out again, to enter into new adventures. It is the garden of those who, like Ulysses on the island of Ogygia, are discovering the sweetness of lingering and, at times, no longer know whether to stay or leave...

CURRICULUM VITAE

ELISABETTA TAGLIATI.
Born in CARPI (ITALY) on 3rd September 1986. Coloratura soprano, she sings lyric and modern music and with overtone singing. She graduated with full marks from the higher institute of musical studies »ACHILLE PERI« in REGGIO EMILIA, holds singing therapy and meditation seminars, studied acting in the school of director and actor PAOLO DI NITA and studied video game programming. After a brief experience of hip-hop and classical dance, since 2010 she has been practicing renaissance and medieval historical dances with the historical dance company »Il Saltarello«. She attended opera singing masterclasses with SONIA GANASSI and ELENA BAKANOVA and baroque singing with MONICA PICCININI. She performs in concert and made her debut in 2019 in GIAN CARLO MENOTTI'S opera »Il Telefono / The Phone«. In 2015 she participated in the staging directed by ELENA BAKANOVA of »Livietta e Tracollo« by GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI. She sings ancient music performing in duo with the lutenist FRANCO SARTI. She is the soprano of the swing vocal trio »Le Tre Civette sul Comò / The Three Little Owls on the Dresser«. The rock opera »Oltre l'Abisso / Beyond the Abyss« was taken from her novel, in which she sang in the lead role. She is the author of the dystopian novel »I Dissidenti - I Libri dei Ricordi del Mondo / The Dissidents The Books of Memories of the World«.

MANUEL CHIEREGATO.
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 / Abandoned Memories«, 2018), TURIN (»L'Arte Risveglia l'Anima / Art Awakens the Soul«, 2019), PAESANA (2020), LONGARONE (»Arte in Fiera Dolomiti / Art Fair Dolomites«, 2021) and VERCELLI (»Biennale Nazionale d'Arte / National Biennial of Art«, 2022), appears in some art catalogs and has been the subject of interviews by »SafeCreative Italia Blog«, »Border Nights«, »Radio Arca Italia« and the Guatemalan »Radio Experimental Progresiva«. He was the creator, author and host of three multilingual cultural columns for the web TV »Valle PRO TV«: »Paesana Art Expo 2020«, »VallExPo« and »Gardens – Sentieri Sonori di un Progetto Multimediale / Sound Paths of a Multimedia Project«, 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«.

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 »Ina(r)ttendu 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 (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 MILANO BICOCCA / University of MILAN 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«.