Soundflow
Soundflow
Soundflow is a word that gets at what set me on my path as a musician — not quite realizing it at first, but more and more consciously in time. It gets at a fascinating world of minute differences in the sustained sound of the piano, which my principal piano teacher, Ms. Rosetta Goodkind, opened for me in my teens; soundflow also gets at the sense of being wonderfully immersed in playing, so that it feels like you only imagine a sound, and it sounds out, even more alive than you imagined it — an experience that kept me in love with playing the piano over the years.
The word borrows from psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi’s concept of “flow” as “optimal experience,” characterized by effortless concentration, full absorption, and peak performance.
Soundflow is about the flow of sound as an immersive experience. In my case, it is something I experience most directly in playing the piano — in other words, in imagining, making, and hearing sound at the same time, while playing.
Soundflow is also a platform for doing artistic research, representing all the richness, intricacy, and beauty accessible through musical practice.