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The need for resonance affects both musician and listener. Music cannot exist without it, even when it adopts dryness. The aim of this first volume, devoted to organology and score writing, is to make resonance a construct rather than a given. Analysis of the gesture (of composing, making, listening) underlines the technical nature of resonance, without ever reducing it to a mechanical, repeatable process. In a contemporary approach, acousticians, luthiers, musicologists, artists and philosophers show that resonance is both an extension of the musical entity and a model for writing and thinking. The space of resonance intersects with questions of architecture, unlimited echoes, enjoyment and power, sympathy and affect. Resonance, a notion broad enough to encompass any type of musical or sound creation, is the link in music between time and space.