The Resonance Project

Music Creating Common Ground

“Music can help us bridge our differences and show us we are heirs to a fundamental truth: that out of many, we are one.”

—letter from President Obama to Jonathan Dimmock regarding The Resonance Project

Q: What do majestic stoney mountains and soaring gothic architecture have in common?

A: The way we feel when we are inside them.

That feeling is Resonance, the patterns of vibration of one object harmonizing at a similar neurologic vibration within us. This sympathetic frequency is sensuous and aesthetic, creating an experience.

With all of our knowledge, powers of instant communication, and technology, we are yet to perfect the creation of a joyful, harmonious civilization. A society with resonance.
TRP is an approach to establishing resonance within conversations, deliberations, mediations, and conflict transformation using the most natural means of creating harmony: music. We are revolutionizing the nature of conflict transformation by transcending cultural, philosophic, and spiritual divides through live presentations of the universal language of music.

Music doesn’t just help us feel, it helps us become. That process of change, seeing the world from another’s perspective, is the secret to overcoming conflict. TRP is perfecting the technique of facilitating successful conflict transformation through the collaboration of neuroscientists and musicians. Music serves as a catalyst for neuroplasticity, synchronizing brainwaves so that empathy (understanding the other party’s point of view) is discovered and common ground can be explored.

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THIS IS A CUTTING-EDGE SOLUTION TO DIFFICULTIES FACING OUR GLOBAL SOCIETY.

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Do you have an upcoming deliberation, facilitation, or mediation that you would like to engage us to help you with? We facilitate communication and empathic listening through music (live or recorded) to transform difficulties into solutions. Contact us to find out more.

A Playlist for Peace

Latest News

Masked Ball in the Redoutensaal at the Congress of Vienna, etching circa 1815. (Brandstaetter Images/Getty Images)

A Playlist for Peace Talks: TRP featured in Washington Post piece

On August 25, 2024, neuroscientist, musician and author, Daniel Levitin, published an op-ed in The Washington Post, entitled “A Playlist for Peace Talks.” The last half of this article quotes our founder, Jonathan Dimmock, in great detail, including underscoring the wisdom of the prescient need to incorporate the musical arts into international conflict resolution. Citing the singular approach of The Resonance Project, and quoting Barack Obama’s rather extensive condoning of the same, this is a tremendous boost for our work!

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Dr. Anita Woolley, Professor of Organizational Behavior, and her research team, have made a discovery very pertinent to the work of TRP: Group intelligence can have greater problem-solving ability than the sum of its individual parts. This depends on

people’s ability to understand each other’s emotions (interpersonal sensitivity), and
a willingness to collaborate creatively with other people.

A shared musical experience, listened to intently, can create a similar emotional response in each listener, thereby serving as a catalyst for #1, and enabling the possibility of #2.

Our nonprofit organization is young and entirely run by volunteer efforts, but we have expenses for musicians, research, and office needs. If you care to help us build a widening foundation of common ground and recognition of each other’s humanity, please consider making a donation on our Donate page.

Our Mission is to offer live music as a tool benefitting conflict resolution. We work globally to bring people together through music and science.

What We Do

Research shows that live music can stimulate brainwave synchronization of two or more people, facilitating the creation of mutually beneficial solutions. TRP explores this potential in a way that opens the door of possibilities.

Blog

Interviews with leading musicians of the world, discussing how they see a relationship between music and building a world at peace, or at least a world in which we learn how to listen and respond to each other with empathy and compassion.

References

Examples, throughout history, of this type of project – from the Congress of Vienna in 1814 to the Christmas Truce of 1914 to the early conception of The Resonance Project in 2014.