CLOISTER GARDEN 1
TRACK 18

Second Orchestra - Fourth Part

CONCEPT. Poor and essential garden, the design that defines it counts more than plants: it is the enclosure both divine and secular, where the penumbra predominates. A well, a shrub of roses or an unusual plant marks the center of its geometric structure and stops the look just raised from reading. The quiet invites to recollection; here you'll hardly notice the passing of time.
If you have chosen this garden, you love to surround yourself with silence. Neither hopes nor fears agitate you: the clamor of the lives of others must not upset your days, only a chaste and profound emotion can interrupt your inner dialogue. You still live among humans, but you are already elsewhere: committed to building your personal metaphysics of the world, you do not realize that your paradise is becoming a prison.

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 selected passages of 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 June 5, 1978, composer. He privately studied violin and then piano and composition at the Bolzano Conservatory. He is coauthor of Ο ΑΦΡΟ∆ΙΤΑΣ ΚΑΠΟΣ, 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 2019 he composed, played and published about 150 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 ИСКУССТВО ПРОБУЖДАЕТ ДУШУ at the Exhibition Hall of the Piedmont Region, 2019).

TIZIANA COMIS. Born in Morges (Switzerland) on 8 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 taken from 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 22 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 6 March 1945, an 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.