Jule Timm interviewed me as part of her MA research at Aalto University on resonance in artistic practice. Starting from resonance singing — a collective vocal practice I have been developing for exploring emergence in groups — the conversation ranged across the physics of resonance, somatic practice, Tibetan dharma art, Balinese ritual theater, and the conditions under which art might be designed to truly resonate.
Jule Timm is a Helsinki-based artist and designer whose practice explores the connections between physical, emotional, and ecological bodies — working with sound, textiles, found materials, and the body as a site of listening and resonance. She is currently completing her MA in Contemporary Design at Aalto University. I met her at the Pedagogies of Togetherness gathering at Aalto last November, where we were working together on the design of a curriculum and the recording of practices. Her thesis research on resonance in art and permaculture led us to reconnect for this conversation about the social art practice of resonance singing, which I have been researching and experimenting with over the past years around questions of collective emergence. What follows is a lightly edited transcript — which turned out to be useful for my own sense-making as much as hers.
Marc Santolini 