RESONA TR

Approach

Resonance is sometimes the response a sound, a movement or a moment leaves within us.

Throughout the day, we are in constant relationship with ourselves and our surroundings. A sound, a space or someone else’s rhythm may find a response in us, often before we consciously notice it.

Sometimes closer.
Sometimes farther away.
Sometimes in stillness.
Sometimes in motion.
And often somewhere among the countless distances in between.

Our bodies continue to process cues from the environments around us, even when we are not consciously aware of them.

When a setting offers enough ease and predictability, the way we relate to our surroundings may shift. Our attention may widen. Different possibilities — pausing, moving or changing direction — may become more available.

Each of us has a different rhythm.

The same music, the same space, the same work or the same silence does not create the same experience for everyone.

An experience is shaped not only by the person or what they encounter, but by the relationship that forms between them.

Sometimes we want to slow down.
Sometimes to move faster.
Sometimes simply to remain where we are.

As our needs change, our rhythm may change too.

RESONA grew from the idea that different disciplines can learn from one another.

We see the meeting of knowledge, research and practices from psychology, music, movement and contemporary art as fertile ground for creating new forms of experience.

We do not aim to represent a single method or propose a single right way.
Our approach remains open to making, researching and learning together.

RESONA The Space is the first production to bring this approach to life.

RESONA The Space — a live experience

There is no right or wrong emotion.
And no right or wrong movement.

At the centre of this approach is witnessing — not interpreting or evaluating.

Creative Process

RESONA’s creative process is shaped by bringing together different forms of knowledge, research and practice from psychology, music, movement and contemporary art.

When drawing from these fields, we do not use them as treatment methods or ready-made models, but as frameworks for thinking about how an experience is designed.

We understand the creative process as something that continues to evolve. Collaborations, co-productions and research with artists, researchers and practitioners from different disciplines are a natural part of that development.

Approaches That Inform Our Work

These approaches indicate some of the theoretical and artistic frameworks that inform RESONA’s design process. The work is influenced by them, but does not aim to represent or practise any one of them in isolation. RESONA is not a therapy or treatment service.

Psychology and the nervous system

Movement and art