Stefano Passerotti/Lorenzo Brusci-Timet

Electronic Music meets a botanic environment. Perspectives on a sonic town.

Lorenzo Brusci and the Timet collective have been composing electro-acoustic music for more than 11 years, designing sounds and music compositions for theatre, dance and television; performing concerts and setting up installations all around Europe.

Since the very beginning one of Timet main task has been to overcome electro-acoustic lack of physicality and widen its emotional and symbolic reference, participating in and producing many sound architecture projects and immersive sound experiences.

In august 2003 Lorenzo Brusci invited Stefano Passerotti, gardener in Florence, to consider the possibility of including sounds, music and sonic objects in the design and realization of gardens and parks. His main idea was that a naturalistic context and specifically a garden could represent a strong embodiment of Timet research and provide a symbolic dimension to sounds and music that were usually described as artificial and abstract. Integrated within the life of the garden, they become relevant part of a living metaphor, expressing and enhancing the multilayered complexity of a naturalistic environment. The first result of this meeting was the foundation of Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino, in Firenze, a sonic garden lab where the team is able to test and verify the main implications of its sonic garden installative solutions.

" ...you could interpret our gardens as hypothesis for a livable sound city, oasis where our ears can learn how to put in tune and harmonize the noise of the whole town. A precise stance and a practical contribution to the sonic planning of a city, representing and exemplifying the qualitative alternative to the acoustic chaos measured so far in db invasiveness..." Lorenzo Brusci suggests, giving hints to guess strong implications of Timet-Passerotti actual work.

Timet and Stefano Passerotti build their own loudspeakers and find the engineering solutions to obtain the highest integration between technology and nature; since their very first commissions they have been paying attention to plants chromatic cycles, gestures and postures suggested by sound diffusion through out plant location, plant sizes and their orientation. Historical uses of plants have often guided their sonic garden installative work.

" This is a real beginning. Personally I'm aware that music composition will be strongly affected by the garden design and the botanic living rules and symbolic history. But the circle of influences is never strictly one way oriented... garden design is already encountering our acoustic needs... ".

Un Orto Toscano risuona di vita.
A Sonic Kitchen Garden.

By
Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino, Firenze
Stefano Passerotti, gardener in Firenze
Lorenzo Brusci-Timet, sound and visual artists

designed by

Gardener Stefano Passerotti
Architect Giampaolo Di Cocco
Architect Paolo Fiumi
Composer and Sound Designer Lorenzo Brusci-Timet
sound design by Lorenzo Brusci-Timet

Paolo Fiumi illustration

patronized by

TRA ART
Rete Regionale Toscana per L'Arte Contemporanea

supported by

Vivaio Valfredda, Brescia
Consorzio Ortovivaistico Pistoiese
Degl'Innocenti Macchine Agricole Firenze
Moresi Restauri & Costruzioni s.r.l. Firenze

A Tuscan traditional kitchen garden resonating of sounds from the everyday family life: noises, human dialogues and popular chants.
Sounds are diffused by sonic objects, designed coherently with shapes and meaning of the garden itself. The sound will be acoustically and electronically integrated in the botanic world. Integrated electronic means are used to interleave the invisible and real spaces of the garden. Electronic and botanic build a further neural system of the spot, creating conditions for a multiple and hyper-historical perceptions of the garden space.
The created garden space is actually a tribute to the human perception and deep understanding of our complex and multi-layered environment.