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MY DEEP INNER NEED. By character, I feel the deep inner need to face the arduous way towards extremely complex polyphony and monumental, daring, unprecedented orchestrations. I have a dream and it is a very old dream, as the polyphony of the fifteenth century and the aborted project of giant orchestra theorized by Hector Berlioz at the conclusion of his »Treatise on Orchestration«. I have a dream and it is a brand new dream, as the world of technology applied to musical instruments, still so unexplored, so inexhaustibly rich in possible infinities. I dream of a music not to play in the concert hall, but in the football stadium or in the smallest of rooms. Music history and progress of science are mature enough to aspire ardently to such an ambitious project.


I do not know if the first symphony of »Underwater Garden« - as well as all the symphonies that I'm composing for the cycle »Gardens« and for my other two monumental cycles, i.e. »Great Waters« and »Cathedrals« - will never performed live. Probably not during my life. Although I trust deeply that sooner or later it will happen. In any case, this is not my concern. What I really would like to see is the full use of certain wonders of modern technology, whose impressive potential is yet snubbed by the most. We see so many of these wonders, but all still woefully underused.


I love live concerts, but my music hates live concerts. My music aspires to audiovisual installations, to video art, to sensitive environments, to video mapping. The live concert is a beautiful and venerable thing, worthy of respect for the grandeur of its ancient, centuries-old tradition. However it does not touch my heart and my muse is deaf to his voice. My muse is a kind of two-faced Janus, one face of which turns its adoring gaze to the most remote past, while the other tends its fearless and tireless eyes to the boldest future. I am a force of the past strung as a bow, ready to shoot its arrows into the furthest of futuristic horizons.


Manuel Chieregato, Ostana, Borgata Ciampetti: 2015.



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