Contact
Press inquiries, review copies, interviews, speaking requests, and general correspondence. The fastest route is email; the form below routes the same way.
Press & Media
media@openchannelpress.comReview copies, interview requests, event bookings, and ARC requests.
Open Channel Press
Readers
info@resonance-book.comReader correspondence, speaking requests, and anything that isn’t press.
Resonance
Ready descriptions and downloads.
“This moving, incisive book is a great reminder of music’s power as a universal connector.”
“The result is a fascinating mix of scientific theory, musical analysis, and personal history that never feels dry or didactic.”
“His humility and curiosity make the book feel more like a shared reflection than a lecture, even as the studies he cites indicate a clear understanding of the science behind sound.”
“An emotional and informative ode to the sonic connections we form throughout our lives.”
Kirkus ReviewsVerdictGet ItRESONANCE: Why Music Moves Us is narrative nonfiction about music as biological input: how patterned sound reaches memory, movement, prediction, reward, and the autonomic body before explanation is complete.
In RESONANCE, Ron K. Miller argues that music is a biological stimulus with direct physical access to the body, sitting in the same category as pain. Not because they are identical or share one pathway, but because both arrive as physical input before interpretation, making claims on attention, prediction, memory, reward, movement, and autonomic state. Drawing on neuroscience, acoustic physics, evolutionary biology, personal history, and philosophy of perception, the book distinguishes documented mechanism from analogy, inference, and speculation as it follows music from infant regulation and autobiographical memory to animal cognition, grief, medicine, and the patterned structure of sound.
Open Channel Press is an independent publisher of intellectually serious work at the intersection of art, perception, science, and meaning.
Send a message.
Routed by inquiry type. Press and media items go to Open Channel Press. Everything else goes to the book address.
Message received. We’ll be in touch.