Video
TED talk: Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi on “Flow, the secret to happiness.”
Soundflow
Concept & Experience
“Flow” is a concept developed by the psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi to describe a state of optimal experience: effortless concentration, full absorption, and peak performance. Soundflow adapts this idea to the particular experience of sound-making at the piano — the sense of imagining, producing, and hearing a sound all at once, so immersively that the boundary between intention and result seems to disappear.
Watch Csikszentmihalyi’s own account of flow below.
In Performance
Certain performances embody the idea of soundflow directly — moments where listening, imagining, and playing collapse into a single continuous act.