Flow State in Live Music Performance: A Qualitative Study on Musicians’ Stage Experiences
Psychology of Music July 21, 2026 Uğur Özalp, Sergen Kaya
This exploratory qualitative study examines how 32 professional musicians in Turkey described flow during live performance, and the conditions they perceived as facilitating or constraining it. Using a qualitative descriptive design with a phenomenological orientation and maximum-variation sampling, we conducted semi-structured interviews immediately after live sets to obtain...