We all have a body through which we sense the world around us. One could see our bodies as vessels, spaceships, that allow us to explore a vast variety of modes of being. As human beings, we are thrown into this world, entering our diverse families and cultures, in which a repertoire of ways of being is shared.

We shake hands this way, greet that way, walk this way, hold ourselves straight that way, share our excitement this way, dance in public sometimes—if at all—that way, sing out loud perhaps sometimes not too much this way, get crazy that way.

Resonance is a culmination of my life in and with music, wherein I have explored—and continue to explore—the many embodied ways in which we connect ourselves to both our inner field of experience and the outer world in which we exist.

How do we partake in this symphony of being, this dance of molecules that is happening inside and outside of us? Does it not, at least sometimes, make you truly wonder whether there is such a clear separation between our so-called inner being and what exists “out there”?

And the moment of celebration as dance: does it come to us when we prepare and organise, or does it, more often than we would like, elude our grasping and controlling tendencies? When does magic, that special experience of flow, emerge in our contemporary daily lives?

And more specifically, how do we, as artists, explore, invite, and cultivate it today?

This book puts experience first. Experience makes us human. We know something is there because we experience it. We hear whispers in the trees, the stars, and the clouds. We see magic in the eyes of a cat.

Book I — On Resonance: Scores & Notes
Contains a compilation of personal notes on resonance and scores written between 2020 and 2022, inviting others to explore daily magic and resonance in their practices.

Book II — On Resonance: Conversations
Consists of a selection of informal conversations among friends about how we prepare for, create, and maintain resonance in our daily practices.