The Infinite Garden

The infinite Garden is a project by Dario Calderone, questioning how we relate with our human and natural environment through listening.

Every garden is a natural space, separated by a fence or some kind of wall. The function of the fence is to divide an inner tamed nature from an outer chaotic wilderness, a private sphere from a public sphere, pure from the impure.
The infinite Garden aims to describe and recreate a totally different political model, in which divisions and borders unveil their fragility and uselessness. While the complexity of our present life makes us want to cancel uncomfortable realities, creating our own beautifully balanced gardens, The infinite Garden questions about reconciliation of contradictions, and inclusiveness. 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 project will feature a sound installation in the small room of the Glazen Huis, a sonic meditation workshop and will culminate in a public performance of the project band, with Aurèlie Nyirabikali Lierman on vocals, Gareth Davis on bass clarinet, Naomi Sato at shō and Dario Calderone on contrabass. The band will perform, together with the external soundscape, music based on the behaviour of some specific plants which have deeply influenced human imagery.