Freewrite on the words Resonance and Dissonance by Serena Tsang

Dissonance and resonance--complementary opposites. Neither one can exist without the other; the concept of disharmonious clashing cannot exist without harmonious reverberation. Though these terms most commonly regard inanimate objects, that is not to suggest that humans cannot prolong or reinforce the sounds from another human being, or that two humans cannot be unsuitable and disharmonious toward each other.

But perhaps dissonance and resonance are not merely complementary opposites. Doesn't some dissonance resonate through us? And we all have experienced the sensation of two bodies moving around a single primary, a single object, a single goal, a single experience. Their revolutions simply proportional, their revolutions simple--easy--and perfectly proportional to each other. Only to find that something has happened to push them out of synchronicity and make them disharmonious. Isn't that the cause and definition of dissonance?

So resonance and dissonance are not merely complementary opposites; rather, they are the cause and effect of each other.