Stefano Passerotti, giardiniere in Firenze, gardener in Firenze

Timet, artisti del suono, sound artists

RHS Gold Medal at the BBC Gardener's World Live Show 2004

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Musicus Concentus

sono lieti di annunciare la riapertura in notturna del laboratorio
are proud to announce the night opening of the sonic lab
Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino
Via Poggio Imperiale 23, Firenze

9-10-11 settembre 2004, ore 20.30/24.00
9-10-11 sept. 2004, 08.30 PM/12.00 PM

Lighting design di Andrea Sensoli
Consulenza illuminotecnica, lighting consultancy

Maurizio Geppetti
Realizzazione, Realization

Eyes
Ingegnerizzazione elettrica, electric engineering

Cogesim

Il Team che sta dando vita al laboratorio
The Team of the sonic lab
Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino

Stefano Passerotti, Giardiniere in Firenze, Gardener in Firenze
Lorenzo Brusci - Timet, Disegnatore del suono e coordinatore del team, Sound designer and team coordinator
Mario Bencivenni - Timet, Storico del giardino e del restauro, Garden and architecture historian
Giacomo Bonciolini - Timet, Artista visuale ed esperto di automazione, Visual artist and automation expert
Andres Bosshard, Architetto del suono, sound architect
Giovanni Antignano - Timet, Web designer
Andrea Sensoli, Architetto, Architect
Paolo Fiumi - Timet, Architetto e illustratore, Architect and illustrator
Letizia Renzini - Timet, Performer e video-artista, Performer and video artist
Enzo Cimino - Timet, Sound designer and sound artist
Matteo Milani - Timet, Sound designer
I Mariposa, Music Group
Eyes, Sistemi d'illuminazione, Lighting systems
Cogesim s.r.l. Ingegnerizzazione elettrica, Electric engineering
Filippo Tincolini e Simone Zanaglia, Scultori ed esperti di lavorazione del marmo in Carrara, Sculptors and marble experts in Carrara

Photo Gallery [watch>]

titolo installativo, title

Ri.Natura.
Re.Nature
Giardino Sonoro Urbano,
laboratorio di trasfigurazione del rumore cittadino.
Urban Sonic Garden
lab for the transfiguration of the city noise.

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I Timet e loro ospiti che performeranno sonobotanicamente nel Giardino Sonoro
il 9-10-11 settembre 2004
Timet and their guests performing 9-10-11 sept. 2004

9 settembre
Lorenzo Brusci
Letizia Renzini
Andrea de Luca
Enzo Cimino
Alessandro Fiori
I Mariposa
ospite speciale special guest Marco Parente

10 settembre
Giuseppe Mangione
Paolo Frasconi
Dj Seya + Kono
Lorenzo Brusci

11 settembre
Matteo Milani
Letizia Renzini
Alessandro Fiori
Enrico Gabrielli
Lorenzo Brusci

Garden Design meets Electronics

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.
One of Timet main task has been to overcome electro-acoustic lack of physicality and narrow emotional reference, participating in and producing several sound architecture projects and immersive sound experiences.

In august 2003 Timet 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. The idea was that a naturalistic context and specifically a garden could represent a strong embodiment of music research and provide a symbolic dimension to sounds and music that were usually described as artificial and abstract. Integrated within the garden life, they become relevant part of a living metaphor, expressing and enhancing the multilayered complexity of a naturalistic environment.
A first result of this important meeting was the foundation of Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino ( see http://www.timet.org/events/rinaturaprogress.htm ) in Firenze (Toscana): a sonic garden lab for test and verification of sonic garden environmental implications.
Sonic gardens in a urban context become hypothesis for a liveable sound city, oasis where our ears would acoustically explore what the noise of the whole town can become after a music transfiguration. A strong stance and a practical contribution to the sonic planning of a city, representing and exemplifying the qualitative alternative to the daily urban acoustic chaos.
Timet and Stefano Passerotti build their own loudspeakers - they call them sonic objects - 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 the chromatic cycles of plants, gestures and postures suggested by sound diffusion through out plant locations, plant sizes and their orientation. Landscape historical hints on architectural perspectives often conducted their sonic garden installation works.

Brusci considers that as a real beginning and believes that music composition will be strongly affected by garden needs, botanic living rules and symbolic history. But the circle of influences is never strictly one way oriented.