Another thought, thinking of President Obama, his love for the Blackberry PDA and his African Ancestry. The Diaspora Cyber Tribe. They each have a Blackberry device able to amplify their natural abilities. But when in proximity of each other the power is exponentially multiplied. In the PC world we call this clustering thus the work load is divided among many linked PCs acting as a super computer or a hive. Thus a small group is formidable, a large group is invincible.
I was brought into African music via the drum. Most of us also came in through this way. Drumming may be the thing to kindle deep African images, but the magic of African music is with three other instruments, the mbira (thumbpiano or kilimba), the balafon (xylophone or marimba), and the kora. After watching these three instruments being played, drums took a back seat for me. Especially the thumbpiano, I am surprised it didn't get smuggled here with the slaves. The sounds are so magical.
The last image I have is the vocal. Out of all the voices in media today two stand out. The first is Bobby McFerrin and the other is all those other people who are voicesmiths and beatbox voice percussionist. To create constructs out of voice sound is very powerful.
One of the funniest thoughts of late is the Masai mud hut. It looks like a Hostess Twinkie and is about the size and shape of a small Airstream Travel trailer (8ft wide x 19ft long) Imagine a Masai like mechanical tribe living on the edge of the Cyberghetti or on the rings of Saturn.
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