GARDEN 13 OF 28
ALPINE GARDEN VOL. 1 - OVERTURE
Part 8

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 "ALPINE GARDEN".
Reduced to a rock garden for the naive persons, who lose their heads for an edelweiss among the stones, a gentian, a rhododendron, the true alpine garden is a disturbing land, with a rarefied atmosphere, inhabited by ghosts of sleeping nymphs, who hover over the snows. It is the charm of Nothingness that pushes upwards, to overcome all adversities, to seek the absolute in this icy desert.
It is the garden of those looking for mirages that do not disappoint; of those who, in their withdrawal from earthly things, driven by the desire for the absolute, prefer to devote themselves to study in solitude. The family walks, between primroses and cyclamen, bore him extremely, indifferent as he is to human worries: only in annihilation and in silence can he trace and cultivate his ideal ego.

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.

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".

a PRALADRIT ART COLLECTIVE production.