Six Studies in Resonance

Electroacoustic Composition/Performance

2026

Six Studies in Resonance is a six-movement work exploring duration, restraint, and listening as compositional practice. Each study unfolds through minimal sonic materials sustained over extended spans of time, allowing subtle fluctuations in texture, density, and harmonic interaction to become primary structural forces.

Musical form emerges gradually through sustained presence rather than contrast. Tones accumulate gradually, drift in and out of phase, and recede without dramatic gesture. The emphasis shifts from event-based composition toward shaping conditions in which listening itself determines structure. Slight instabilities and fluctuations in tuning, breath-like dynamic movement, and temporal misalignments are treated not as imperfections but as traces of lived sonic presence.

Intervention during performance is intentionally limited. Once initial processes are established, they are allowed to unfold with minimal correction, encouraging attentiveness to gradual changes. The work invites both performer and listener to inhabit time rather than measure it, foregrounding coexistence over control.

The final mixes were transferred to cassette, introducing a gentle instability and soft saturation that further blurs the boundary between immediacy and memory. In this way, the work approaches resonance not as an effect, but as a condition of shared temporal experience.