He succeeds admirably in conveying the stillness and peace of the place, and provides another chapter in his ongoing mission to present the aural truth about certain sacred locales around the globe which he has selected.
He collected field recordings from around the mountain area and also recorded the ceremonies of the monks, assembling the results into this carefully-structured work he intends it to be a document of the complete experience, and through his compression he presents an authentic rendition of the three days in the space of less than one hour.
It looks like he really got „into“ the place and its sounds in a big way and turned the experience into the art statement that is Three Days of Silence (GRUENREKORDER GRUEN 102). Sound artist Pietro Riparbelli has surpassed my one-day tourist trip with a three-day sojourn at the Sanctuary in La Verna. It’s famous as the area where St Francis received the stigmata and there’s a shrine built where the incident took place. La Verna is a lovely place in Tuscany where I have visited some years ago as part of a tour to see the paintings of Piero della Francesca. Three days collection of field recordings each one accompanied by a photo of the relative place. The Chiesa Maggiore was begun in 1348, although not finished until 1459. A few years later the Chapel of the Stigmata was erected, paid for by Count Simone of Battifole, near the spot where the miracle took place. In 1260 a church was consecrated there in presence of St. Pope Alexander IV took it under his protection. Thus La Verna came to be seen as sacred ground. He also began to form a wound in his side like that of Christ. In August, 1224, frustrated by the changes in the Order of Friars Minor, Francis withdrew to La Verna to keep a forty days fast in preparation for Michaelmas and while praying on the mountain- side he received (on or about 17 September) the stigmata.Īfter seeing a vision of a seraphim he began to develop nails of hardened flesh which protruded from his hands and feet. The place is known especially for its association with Saint Francis of Assisi (he is said to have received the stigmata here) and for the Sanctuary of La Verna, which grew up in his honour.Ĭount Orlando of Chiusi gave La Verna to Francis on as a retreat specially favourable for contemplation, and in 1218 built him the chapel Santa Maria degli Angeli. La Verna, in Latin Alvernia and geographically known as Monte Penna, is a locality on Mount Penna, an isolated mountain of 1,283 m situated in the centre of the Tuscan Apennines. I’ve lived together with the monks recording and attending the ceremonies and the sounds of the place trying to penetrate in a dimension of pure contemplation. I have been three days within the Sanctuary of La Verna on the top of a mountain called “the mountain of the Stigmata” in Tuscany. “Three days of silence” is conceived as complete phenomenological experience of listening. Three days of silence – The mountain of the Stigmata | Pietro Riparbelli
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