The Infinite Garden is a project by Dario Calderone that explores how we relate to our human and natural environment through the act of listening.
In every garden, nature is framed — an inner cultivated space set against an outer, untamed wilderness. The infinite Garden aims to describe and recreate a totally different political model, in which divisions and borders unveil their fragility and uselessness. It encourages a global way of listening, in which there is a constant communication between different spaces and dimensions, between sounds from outside of the performative space and the inside, between the environment and the humans, between the vibrating air and our bodies, between our communities and the individual.
The Infinite Garden is a project which unfolds in a constantly running sound installation. Inside the space, in real time, microphones, hydrophones and geophones outside, capture and amplify the surrounding soundscape, allowing the outside to shape the inside. Deep Listening workshops are held as a side activity, allowing the participants to experience the space with enhanced hearing skills. Finally four musicians (Aurèlie Nyirabikali Lierman on vocals, Gareth Davis on bass clarinet, Naomi Sato on shō and Dario Calderone on contrabass), perform pieces inspired by the behaviours of remarkable plants, translating their ways of being into sound and movement. The “dioscorides” of these pieces is open and constantly growing and changing, and includes Garoe (Oicocea Phoetens) Thismia (Thismia Americana), Arundhati (Mallotus Philippensis) and Eichhornia (water hyacinth).
Dario Calderone 