Yves Ruhlmann
Principle: a piano music improvised for one person, and dedicated to them
Series: more than ninety Resonances, since May 2016
Form: “Résonance n° 93 pour Julie — Piano en Résonance”
The principle holds in one sentence: I enter into resonance with a person, I listen to them, and I improvise for them a music that is dedicated to them.
Nothing to prepare, nothing to know: presence is enough, and it is presence that makes the music.
Each work born of this listening is a Resonance. It carries a number in a continuous series begun in May 2016, and the first name of the person to whom it is dedicated. It enters the catalogue on the same footing as every other work.
A Resonance is always improvised: nothing is written in advance. It is born live during the meeting — in a private session as in a collective meeting — and is then mixed and mastered.
The dedicatee is not always a person: two Resonances from 2018 are dedicated to a full moon. Some carry a title, others do not.
By video call, offered, by registration. I listen to each person present and let a music dedicated to them be born at the piano, live.
From time to time, a meeting by video call brings several people together. I listen to each one, I enter into resonance, and I improvise at the piano, live, a music dedicated to them.
The meeting is offered, and the Resonance born there is offered. Only the recording, for those who wish to keep it, is proposed afterwards. The time of one evening does not allow an unlimited number of Resonances: whoever wishes to reserve theirs and come first may order the recording in advance, with the discount code announced on the page of the meeting.
The next meetings take place on Monday 2 November and Thursday 3 December 2026, at 8:00 pm. Dates are announced here and in The Symphoniya Letter.
The participants’ cameras stay closed. Only mine is open, on the piano. No one is looked at: each person is simply there, present. That is what makes intimacy possible between all — and a Resonance asks for no words and no explanation, presence alone is enough.
The audio of the meeting is broadcast again on the radio. What is played that evening goes on resonating afterwards: the audio recording of the meeting enters the programming of Radio Symphoniya Wave.
Ordered Resonances are found on YouTube. The recording ordered after the meeting reaches you mixed and mastered, and the work joins the Piano en Résonance playlist on my channel, where the series can be heard from one Resonance to the next.
Your Resonance was born during a meeting and you wish to keep it: the mixed and mastered recording, in CD quality (WAV 16-bit / 44.1 kHz), from 44 CHF / 44 €.
A meeting by video call for you alone, or for the person of your choosing, and the work born there — from 144 CHF / 144 €.
The private session can be offered: the person of your choosing is listened to, and the work born there is dedicated to them — from 144 CHF / 144 €.
Looking forward to resonating together,
Yves Ruhlmann
Listen. Feel. Resonate.
