Stefano Passerotti, Gardener in Florence

Timet, sound and visual artists
Lorenzo Brusci – sound designer and composer
Giovanni Antignano – web designer
Letizia Renzini – performer, video artist
Giacomo Bonciolini – artist and automation expert
Mirio Cosottini - composer
Enzo Cimino - sound composers
I Mariposa - sound composers

Collaborators
Andres Bosshard – Sound Architect
Filippo Tincolini e Simone Zanaglia – sculptors in Carrara
Mario Bencivenni – garden and architecture historician
Paolo Fiumi – architect and illustrator
Matteo Milani - Sound Designer
Francesco Papa - architect

Photo.galleries
check the work in progress [watch]>
Take a look at the Limonaia dell'Imperialino before the installation[watch]>
some sound tests on marble objects located in the garden, entrance [watch]>
download andres bosshard promenade mp3 [download]>

This is the team working on the idea of a sonic garden.
We are deepening the sound quality of plants in a created environment.
We are working with sounding objects made in steel, marble, glass, fiberglass and various stones; this in order to create a path of sound reflections and zones of enhanced sound quality inside the garden multi-space.

Integrated electronic means are used to interleave the invisible and real spaces of the garden.
Electronic is the neural system of the spot, creating a multiple perceptions of space.
We propose an immersive reflection on meaning and functions of a contemporary garden.

The result is an orchestration of plants and integrated-distributed sounding objects.

The created space is actually a tribute to the human perception and deep understanding of our complex environment.

We proudly announce that at the La limonaia dell'Imperialino - garden designed by Stefano Passerotti, Viale Poggio Imperiale 23, Firenze -

Passerotti - Timet and collaborators gave birth to the project

Giardino Sonoro La Limonaia dell'Imperialino, Firenze

The title of the entire site will be

Ri.NATURA
Un contributo alla comprensione del ciclo della sintesi,
da artificio a natura.

Lorenzo Brusci of Timet invited some interior members of the group and close collaborators to take advantage of Stefano Passerotti interest on sonic perspectives inside the garden.
Garden as a living metaphor of life complexity, a possible window on and a dynamic and wider definition of alter-human life.
- Paying attention to the art of re-cycling, in nature as in sound technology and music;
- respecting historical suggestions coming from the garden and the aesthetic and physical needs of an electro-acoustic immersive fruition;
- reflecting on implications of a contemporary and hyper-functional garden;
- suspending the urban idea of time, creating paths, sights, surprises and discoveries, transfiguring the order itself of a natural garden;
- embodying abstract and radical experience of contemporary sound and music research.

An occasion to give back to the sound in nature the immediate meaning that both casual listening and sophisticated listening lost in recent years of phonographic music history.

The lab will be visitable from May 2004.
It will be the first environmental sonic lab in Italy.