Phish bassist Mike Gordon is teaming up with neuroscientists to try to understand the transcendent experience of musical flow ...

A person is in a state of flow when they are totally immersed in a task. When a person is “in flow,” they may not notice time passing, think about why they are doing the task, or judge their efforts.

I n the middle of a sprawling recording room at Bob Weir’s TRI Studios in San Rafael, California, one Sunday afternoon in April 2023, Weir and Phish bassist Mike Gordon were up to something strange.

Earlier this year, a review of research related to the neuroscience of solo flow states focused on "how the brain's locus coeruleus-norepinephrine (LC-NE) system may be involved in a range of ...