Resonance: beyond sound

Resonance is not merely an acoustic effect.

Jean-Luc Nancy, in *À l’écoute*, describes listening as an openness to a vibration that passes through the subject. Sound does not stop at the ear: it puts the body into a certain state.

Hartmut Rosa broadens this notion by speaking of resonance as a relational mode: a relationship in which something responds, transforms and engages.

In my practice, the voice is conceived as formless matter. It has no visible form, but it possesses the power to propagate.

The operatic voice, through its capacity for volume and high frequency, intensifies this vibrational dimension. It is not content merely to be heard. It envelops.

Resonance here does not mean interaction. It means transformation.

The spectator who activates the work through a sound impulse does not trigger a mechanism external to themselves. They enter into a vibrational chain.

Bibliographical references

Nancy, Jean-Luc. *À l’écoute*. Galilée, 2002. Rosa, Hartmut. *Resonance: A Sociology of the Relationship to the World*. 2016. Ihde, Don. *Listening and Voice: Phenomenologies of Sound*. 1976. Cavarero, Adriana. *For More Than One Voice*. 2005.