Tue 5 Jun 2007
Jennifer Lin, Flow & Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi
Posted by Eric Porres under Piano Wire
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Tom Hespos sent me the following link to a performance then 14-year old Jennifer Lin made at the TED conference in 2004. I dug around and found this link from Yamaha (Jennifer is a Yamaha music student) which provides a bit more detail about the performance and Jennifer’s approach to music. She performed during the conference’s “Sync & Flow” forum along with Mihaly Czikszentmihalyi (who I had the privilege to meet and work with during my time at Disney Educational Publishing). If you are at all familiar with the concept of flow, Lin’s improvisation section of her performance (where she asked a member of the audience to volunteer to pick 5 notes out of 7 in a stack of cards and then improvised a song out of those notes on the spot…Goldie Hawn was the volunteer) is a physical/auditory manifestation of that concept. It is a mesmerizing performance, even when viewed after-the-fact.
In 2006, Lin appeared on Oprah and performed a similar improvisation.
