Entrainment...... (Get in line....)

[JRL]

I hear ya. My friend Lew says "you can find out more about a person by playing music with him for 5 minutes than talking for an hour".  I have has similar experiences, hard to believe someone can be a thief after sharing that place with you.

[laughingwillow]

Our new trio of acoustic gat, stand up bass and hand drum has been gaining some traction. While bassie is busy with electric band projects, he's been digging this set up enough to start making our thing regular. Its been a blast creating rhythm lines between the darbuka and bass. Less almost becomes more in this dialogue. Someone starts a phrase, the other finishes it a few times until it becomes established and then the next rhythmic idea  is born, matures and passes on. Meanwhile, there is Riiiiki on the guitar, cruising above the fray; pulling strings, planting seeds and mapping routes through time; pausing periodically to add both verse and rhyme.

Then I open my eyes to realize that two hours have just passed......

lw

[JRL]

When do I get to hear?

[laughingwillow]

When Ricky decides to record something, I'll get a copy to you, bro.

lw

[laughingwillow]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/wildli ... ether.html

Dr Dora Biro, of Oxford University, the lead author of the paper, said the "flexible system of leadership" allows the birds to perform amazing aerobatics because every individual has influence.

"The flock is not dominated by a single bird and not completely egalitarian either. It is a hierarchical system where some birds that rank higher will make the most influential decisions but those lower down the pecking order can also make decisions, which influence those below them."

Dr Biro said the study could shed light on the collective behaviour of animals.

"Crucially, these hierarchies are flexible in the sense that the leading role of any given bird can vary over time, while nonetheless remaining predictable in the long run," she said.

[JRL]

I always said we could learn a thing or two from birds.