There wasn’t *pre*-planning but yeah, there was explicit (though emergent) coordination.
I had loved the idea of stopping right as the sun vanished, from a practice drum-circle that Brent led in the Berkeley hills earlier in June. I didn’t find any way to mention this prior to getting out to the clifftop, but then once we were there and there was kind of a small circle where most of the drummers were, I indicated to them to stop when the last bit of sun was gone.
Cody was nearby without a drum and overheard me saying this, and asked “should I pass that along to the other drummers?” (because not everybody was right next to me, although all of the biggest drums were) and I said “yes!” and she did!
And yeah, it was really magical, I think in part because we didn’t *quite* have common knowledge that we were going to stop then—even I didn’t know if everyone would get the message, or would follow it, etc.
There wasn’t *pre*-planning but yeah, there was explicit (though emergent) coordination.
I had loved the idea of stopping right as the sun vanished, from a practice drum-circle that Brent led in the Berkeley hills earlier in June. I didn’t find any way to mention this prior to getting out to the clifftop, but then once we were there and there was kind of a small circle where most of the drummers were, I indicated to them to stop when the last bit of sun was gone.
Cody was nearby without a drum and overheard me saying this, and asked “should I pass that along to the other drummers?” (because not everybody was right next to me, although all of the biggest drums were) and I said “yes!” and she did!
And yeah, it was really magical, I think in part because we didn’t *quite* have common knowledge that we were going to stop then—even I didn’t know if everyone would get the message, or would follow it, etc.