The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #69750 Message #1185590
Posted By: Geoff the Duck
14-May-04 - 08:25 AM
Thread Name: Emergent Order in Sessions
Subject: RE: Emergent Order in Sessions
So.... An individual saunters into a bar... Three or four other random souls drift in through the different entrances... A focus or cusp of attention forms around a table at one end of the bar, but nobody approaches it... A haze of expectation coalesces in the smoke from the open log fire, and unrelated individals drift towards the warmth of the crackling blaze... One person opens a fiddle case, this is not a leader, just the earliest member to move... Suddenly a critical mass has been reached, almost as one, the remaining members of the throng open cases, fish whistles out of coat pockets or bones from a tin... They move en-masse to be seated on the stools and benches which litter the floor. The scraping of a fiddle bow against strings reverberates from the rafters as somebody tunes up... A chord strikes an anacrusis as the music magically forms... And Then... The prat who thinks he can play a bodhran strikes up! Quack! GtD.