Resonance. Co-Becoming With Sound."

In this chapter, I explore an ethnographic situation in Palau, Micronesia, in which the performance of a traditional chant was characterized by a shared sensation of irony. At the same time, a discrete yet powerful we-spirit took a hold of the audience for the duration of the chant. Building on the Schmitzian neo-phenomenology of atmospheres, I use the notion of resonance (see Griffero 2016) to explore these dynamics. My point of departure is the idea that music is material, acoustically palpable movement, a cultural practice enacting the already motion-laden body. Music actualizes the human body in movement, allowing it to continually transform in sound while recomposing along historical, social and cultural configurations. When musical movement acts on bodily movement like this, music and dance create resonances between the divergent registers from which lived experience emerges