A presentation of the findings in a research project called Folk Song Lab. Folk Song Lab is a platform for improvising folk songs in a collective setting in sessions from the cognitive framework of ballads, lullabies, folk chorales, and herding songs. It is an interactive project for singing and creating and developing skills together. The group size can vary from 5-6 persons up to 30-40 participants, and in a session, everybody contributes by singing and listening, taking turns, or improvising simultaneously. Folk Song Lab explores artistic methods such as play, risk, mimicry, reorientation, feedback, and real-life situations to nudge the participant to end up in the flow channel to be in the moment. To be in flow. 

Susanne Rosenberg is a folk singer and Professor of folk singing at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm, Sweden. The Folk Song Lab research project is supported by the Swedish Research Council. Vetenskapsrådet 2018-01958  Read more: https://folksonglab.com/