* Image of a proper breath simulates a fountain with a glass ball on top of its peak that corresponds to breath (water) meeting the sympathetic resonance points (ball).
* As pitch rises, breath pressure at the sympathetic resonance point in the front of the mouth increases and there is a slight change in mouth position.
I was fascinated by the idea of
sympathetic resonance, of finding a corner in the rafters that resonates with a particular note.
There are interesting echoes here with the recent thought of both Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux, an interpretation which would no doubt find
sympathetic resonance in the work of Mehdi Belhaj Kacem (Evenement et Repetition and L 'esprit du Nihilisme: Une Ontologique de l'Histoire).
He or she then adjusts the frequency and volume to create
sympathetic resonance that can be felt in the lungs.
Vivaldi's setting of the 127th Psalm, "Nisi Dominus," featured soprano Maria Ferrante, together with Tenenbaum, playing an impressive viola d'amore, a kind of viola on steroids with six or seven strings backed by six or seven more strings for
sympathetic resonance. It's about the largest string instrument that can still be tucked under a human chin and requires an almost elastic arm length to finger.
Be on the watch for the tendency to have eating disorders, addictions or obsessions with filling needs in other ways through unhealthy relationships, boundary issues, unhealthy
sympathetic resonance, rather than a healthy empathy, and the inability to give or receive nurturance.
If the architectural achievement of Dia:Beacon has been largely invisible to commentators, it may then be that the architecture of the museum has been self-camouflaged, so to speak, by its entirely
sympathetic resonance to the work exhibited.
"Well, if the people involved are cute, that's real big," she cracks, then answers seriously, "If I feel like it's a challenge--or a
sympathetic resonance that pulls me to it.