It will probably not come as too much of a surprise that Houghton, who has been playing guitar since the age of 16, and is still only 19, has supported Tunng and Tinariwen on tour, collaborated in one form or another with Vetiver, John Martyn, Bon Iver, Devendra Banhart and Joanna Newsom, and recorded a single, Golden/Nightswimmer, with Adem.
Terrible injustices have been visited on black people in the United States, but there is never a good reason to collaborate in one's own destruction.
While collaborating in their studio one afternoon in May 2013, Hekmat received a call from an unknown number.
Small and medium enterprises collaborating in temporary networks are one of the most viable business structures of the 21st century.
Every show, for example, is available for sponsorship, while advertisers are collaborating in the making of certain one-minute segments that run in the middle of programs.
That might mean collaborating in the use of some venues: one of the reasons that the EIF theatre programme has sometimes seemed frosty and out of touch with contemporary theatre is its tie-up with barn-like Edinburgh venues like the Playhouse which simply don't lend themselves to much contemporary work.
Moreover, primary care professionals increasingly work together in broad healthcare centres, collaborating in disease management programmes and consulting one another in managing the care of individual patients.
The book also touches levels deeper than mischief, especially in its middle chapters, where Pauline and Michael, just returned from a family celebration of their 30th wedding anniversary, collaborate in one last quarrel, in which, taking up Pauline's challenge to leave if things are as awful as he says they've been, Michael walks out.
Iran and Russia face challenges collaborating in the field.
