Resonance and music are deeply intertwined.
What strikes me at most that this seems to be true on all levels:
On the level of physics, where acoustic resonance helps the body of a violin spreading the sound into a concert hall,
On the level of our nervous system, where the reception of a continuous beat of sounds causes us involuntarily teetering our foot, or even
On a conceptual level, where we resonate with a message or a complex understanding of something even indescribable like a wonderful musical passage.
If you get to know a bit deeper into the subject of resonance, you will find that not only a basic frequency is causing another body to start moving, it can be even through related – like half or double – frequencies, as in this video below. Look how different people react rhythmically to the so well-known simple beats of “We will rock you!” in this “Queen” concert, some directly with the beat, some others with double speed, and so on:
Now, what you see is not only the move of the bodies, it is also how much the people enjoy the overall experience. So many facets of resonance can be found here! I leave it to you to look for it and even more, to resonate with this video as well (as I certainly do).
As I am writing this, almost 30 million people have already watched this video, what a resonance!
Now, today, let’s talk about videos with much less visitors in connection to a very specific resonance feature. This is an effect, where a body “learns” only after a certain time to resonate with a certain stimulus. Maybe you experienced this already and it drove you crazy: A keychain started to buzz after some time while you played your favorite piece on the piano or hearing it in the radio.
But this “learning to resonate” can be also a very good thing
When you give something time to resonate in you, when you are curious, when you like to expand your emotional life, you may find yourself resonate with music, you never thought about before. It happened to me several times and today I’m happy to be able to resonate with many different musical languages so that I often really don’t know where to start listening first.
Sometimes it needs good friends to learn to resonate with something new, sometimes just a bit quiet – to search, to browse, to discover, to be inspired. Then, the new music becomes your own friend!
Like with this YouTube user Jacques Berger, for example, who discovered a new orchestra piece at a much less popular video at YouTube. Many visitors describe experiences at similar occasions like he does here:
"It took a long time for an old geek like me to let myself into his music, to accept what went counter to my musical culture, but, once there, what a delight..."
Give it a try!
Resonance can be like bridges that connect us. Building bridges is good.
But let’s be careful though – resonances may destroy bridges either! Look what happened below, you won’t believe.