A little bit about how the math works:

EM PORTUGUÊS / IN ENGLISH

(The Matrix began with Brazilian musicians in this radio, called by The Guardian "one of the 10 best around the world")

RÁDIO MATRIX / Guardian

We appreciate you including Kamasi in the matrix, Sparrow. — Banch Abegaze (manager: Kamasi Washington)

KAMASI WASHINGTON

Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix. — Susan Rogers (personal recording engineer for Prince; recorded "Purple Rain", "Around the World in a Day", "Parade", "Sign o' the Times"... recorded David Byrne and others; now director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory)

SUSAN ROGERS

Dear Sparrow, Many thanks for this – I am touched! — Julian Lloyd Webber (premiere cellist in the United Kingdom; brother of Andrew Lloyd Webber (Evita, Jesus Christ Superstar, Cats, Phantom of the Opera...)

JULIAN LLOYD WEBBER

This is super impressive work ! Congratulations ! Thanks for including me :))) — Clarice Assad (pianist and composer; works performed by Yo Yo Ma and orchestras around the world)

CLARICE ASSAD

Thanks, this is a brilliant idea!! — Alicia Svigals (world's premier klezmer violinist)

ALICIA SVIGALS

I'm Sparrow. I built this matrix so that every creator on the planet would be conceivably findable and accessible from all others, beginning with musicians in Bahia, Brazil. The matrix combines recommendation by both artificial and human intelligence (human preferred) and the small-world phenomenon (responsible for the fact that most humans are within 6 steps of most others) in a simple but powerful manner which has never been used before.

SPARROW/PARDAL ROBERTS

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