  The processes governing energy storage and release in the Sun are both
related to the solar magnetic field. We demonstrate the existence of a magnetic
connection between energy released caused by a flare and increased oscillatory
power in the lower solar atmosphere. The oscillatory power in active regions
tends to increase in response to explosive events at a different location, but
not in the region itself. We carry out timing studies and show that this is
probably caused by a large scale magnetic connection between the regions, and
not a globally propagating wave. We show that oscillations tend to exist in
longer lived wave trains at short periods (P< 200s) at the time of a flare.
This may be a mechanism by which flare energy can be redistributed throughout
the solar atmosphere.
