Modal resonators are less suitable for more diffuse resonances that are often encountered, such as wooden furniture or large metal panels.
But in both places, at both times, there are resonances that should alarm us.
Perhaps it's these mythic resonances that have seen science fiction trend more and more towards religious zeal in recent years.
But audiences also register the haunting historical resonances that have collected around this opera since its première, in 1835.
In a brief, oratorical epilogue, Durham lets fly with the biblical resonances that have hovered throughout the book, reminding us that "not even the angels live in peace".
The implicit parallels and contrasts between works separated by 100 years set off intriguing resonances that "Two Sisters" doesn't quite generate on its own.
In a book about isolation, likenesses proliferate like daydreams around ordinary objects and people, lending fantasy narratives to them, resonances that fill the empty spaces.
So someone with a confused mind might well find provocations, resonances, that made him choose this of all works of art to blast with a shotgun.
For the actors, the inclusion of music creates resonances that go beyond the particulars of the story, which is set in an unnamed city in the contemporary South.
There are other similarities: for instance, Lawrence's almost single-handed invention of the novelist-traveller, reinvented almost single-handedly by Naipaul, and invested by him with the resonances that came into being in the aftermath of empire.
It's a shiny apartment in a shiny apartment block with big glass windows and modern furnishings but it's imbued with the sort of meaning and memories and resonances that, as yet, no machine can understand.
