Andrea Bocelli is the best-selling classical artist of all time. He owns a villa in Tuscany where he goes for inspiration, surrounded by nature and family. Architettura Sonora designed and installed a multi-channel outdoor sound system for Bocelli's garden that impresses him with its natural sound quality and ability to recreate sound stages. Bocelli is happy to now have his garden as his own private orchestra to rehearse with.

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Andrea Bocelli is with no doubts the most
famous classical Italian singer in the world
today, one of the very few classical artists
to achieve worldwide recognition into the mainstream
making him the biggest-selling artist in the history of
classical music with over 80 million albums sold to
date.
His haunting voice and the amazing vocal range he
displays when performing transports the audience to
places they never knew existed; Andrea Bocelli’s live
concerts, which are mostly sold out, are attended by
a passionate audience of music lovers and fans. The
60,000 tickets for the “One night in Central Park”
concert in NYC sold out in few hours. He performed
on the most famous international stages, from
Madison Square Garden to Grand Garden Arena in
Las Vegas, but whenever he needs inspiration and
harmony he goes back to his own “secret garden”
to reconnect with Nature in his native Tuscany,
returning to his family and friends; there is a song
that goes “it’s nice to go traveling but it’s so much
nicer to come home”, and that is exactly how he
feels when he says “I want to have time for myself,
my family and my friends. It’s important because in
order to sing well, you must have inspiration, and
inspiration comes from life, from living…”
Tuscany is famous for excellence, its wine, its
food, its art and its gentle rolling hills, but it is also
a place of music, where famous composers such
as Puccini and Mascagni and many other great
singers and composers were born. Andrea Bocelli
was born in the countryside around Pisa and his
house is now in the seaside town of Forte dei Marmi,
a charming resort on the Tuscan coast protected by
the majestic and stunning Apuan Alps and by the
breath-taking Monte Altissimo, the mountain range
where Michelangelo went to get his marble.
Every corner of his stunning villa is permeated
with music, you can breathe the art of his music in
the air; this is his particular retreat where he goes
back for inspiration. Andrea Bocelli has not given up
having excellent quality of music even in his garden,
the special place he relaxes in, breathing the salty air
from the sea or caressed by the gentle winds from
the mountains. For his special Sonic Gardens Andrea
Bocelli chose to rely on the excellence of Architettura
Sonora, a revolutionary brand of outdoor acoustic
experiences, with an increasing imprint in the indoor
world, famous for its award-winning collection of
architectural loudspeakers.
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TUSCAN EXCELLENCE MEETS THE TUSCAN PRODIGY.
A VIRTUOSO SONIC GARDEN FOR ANDREA BOCELLI BY ARCHITETTURA SONORA.
“MUSICA MAESTRO!”
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to design and install the sound system in Bocelli’s
garden, to meet and satisfy the high expectations of
such a competent and sophisticated audience, but
we can certainly say they succeeded; the Maestro
and Pierpaolo Guerrini, his sound-engineer and
close collaborator, were considerably struck by the
timbre and very uniform frequency response, as well
as by the clear and natural sound reproduced by
the system, with the best sound details. What really
impressed them was the amazing quality of the
sound stage reconstruction, especially in the rear
garden, which is the most difficult thing to achieve
when it comes to outdoor acoustic.
Architettura Sonora designed a multi-
channel system divided in two different
areas, with different characteristics, both
extending the interior space into the garden, one in
the front and one in the rear of the house. In the
front of the house, toward the sea, a system of
Sphere_360 in marble (from the local quarries and
matching the stones of the house design) welcomes
visitors and accompanies them to the entrance;
the Spheres are omnidirectional sound modules
and they perfectly integrate into the surroundings,
providing a sonic image that keeps the attention
over the experience of the space, not on the
speakers which are then perceived as part of the
architectural design. Three Sphere_470 in Tuscan
terracotta are then hidden into the bushes around
the swimming pool, reinforcing the whole immersive
sound experience and providing a pleasing natural
acoustic coverage around the pool, like if the hedges
themselves were radiating music.
In the back of the house, toward an intimate
pinewood, the sound design created a sort of private
stage opening up and facing the majestic mountain
range. Two suspended modules Small Helmets
hanging from the corner of the central patio are
supported by three Sphere_470 in Tuscan terracotta
around the facing lawn. The omnidirectional sound of
the floor-standing modules reinforced by the vertical
component of the suspended modules creates an
immersive natural sound pattern that really amazed
Andrea Bocelli.
The entire system is powered by Architettura
Sonora AS-A Series amplifiers with built-in
programmable DSP, which make it possible to
perfectly optimize the acoustics to any given
environment.
It was very rewarding and incredible to see the
Maestro starting to sing while listening to the music
of this garden and saying that he felt very happy
because now his garden is like his own private
orchestra he can dialogue and rehearse with.

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Music and
settings
controller
ZONE 1
ZONE 2
ZONE 2
ZONE 1
L R
L+R
L R
L
R
L
L+R L
R
LR
ZONE 2
ZONE 1
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Cylinder
Sphere 360
AS-A06500
AS-A04500
Sphere 470
1 x
1 x
1 x
4 x
3 x
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Small helmet
Sphere 470
AS-A3000
AS-A06H
2 x
1 x
1 x
3 x
ZONE 1 > Terrace - Swimming pool ZONE 2 > Patio - Garden

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“The nature of music is mysterious and
so much so that it generates strong emotions
within us.
It moves along passages that reach the
most intimate areas of our psyche without being
tried by prejudices or influences of any kind.”
Andrea Bocelli
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