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Imagine the world's creative economy at your fingertips. Imagine 10 doors side-by-side. Beyond each, 10 more, each opening to a "creative" somewhere around the planet. After passing through 8 such doorways you will have followed 1 pathway out of 100 million possible (2 sets of doorways yield 10 x 10 = 100 pathways). This is a simplified version of the metamathematics that makes it possible to reach everybody in the global creative economy in just a few steps It doesn't mean that everybody will be reached by everybody. It does mean that everybody can  be reached by everybody.


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Why a "Matrix"?

 

I was explaining the ideas behind this nascent network to (João) Teoria (trumpet player above) over cervejas at Xique Xique (a bar named for a town in Bahia) in the Salvador neighborhood of Barris...

 

And João said (in Portuguese), repeating what I'd just told him, with one addition: "A matrix where musicians can recommend other musicians, and you can move from one to another..."

 

A matrix! That was it! The ORIGINAL meaning of matrix is "source", from "mater", Latin for "mother". So the term would help congeal the concept in the minds of people the network was being introduced to, while giving us a motto: "We're a real mother for ya!" (you know, Johnny "Guitar" Watson?)

 

The original idea was that musicians would recommend musicians, the network thus formed being "small world" (commonly called "six degrees of separation"). In the real world, the number of degrees of separation in such a network can vary, but while a given network might have billions of nodes (people, for example), the average number of steps between any two nodes will usually be minuscule.

 

Thus somebody unaware of the magnificent music of Bahia, Brazil will be able to conceivably move from almost any musician in this matrix to Bahia in just a few steps...

 

By the same logic that might move one from Bahia or anywhere else to any musician anywhere.

 

And there's no reason to limit this system to musicians. To the contrary, while there are algorithms written to recommend music (which, although they are limited, can be useful), there are no algorithms capable of recommending journalism, novels & short stories, painting, dance, film, chefery...

 

...a vast chasm that this network — or as Teoria put it, "matrix" — is capable of filling.

 

@ Ground Zero

 

Have you, dear friend, ever noticed how different places scattered across the face of the globe seem almost to exist in different universes? As if they were permeated throughout with something akin to 19th century luminiferous aether, unique, determined by that place's history? It's like a trick of the mind's light (I suppose), but standing on beach or escarpment in Salvador and looking out across the Baía de Todos os Santos to the great Recôncavo, and mindful of what happened there, one must be led to the inevitable conclusion that one is in a place unique to history, and to the present*.

 

 

"Chegou a hora dessa gente bronzeada mostrar seu valor / The time has come for these bronzed people to show their value..."Música: Assis Valente of Santo Amaro, Bahia. Vídeo: Betão Aguiar.

 

*More enslaved human beings entered the Bay of All Saints and the Recôncavo than any other final port-of-call throughout all of mankind's history.

 

These people and their descendants created some of the most uplifting music ever made, the foundation of Brazil's national art. We wanted their music to be accessible to the world (it's not even accessible here in Brazil) so we created a platform by which everybody's creativity is mutually accessible, including theirs.

 

El Aleph

 

The network was built in an obscure record shop (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar found it) in a shimmering Brazilian port city...

 

...inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' (short story) El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone.

 

It "works" by virtue of the "small-world" phenomenon...the same responsible for the fact that most of us 7 billion or so beings are within 6 or fewer degrees of each other.

 

It was described (to some degree) and can be accessed via this article in British journal The Guardian (which named our radio of matrixed artists as one of ten best in the world):

 

www.theguardian.com/travel/2020/apr/17/10-best-music-radio-station-around-world

 

With David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio: www.npr.org/2013/07/16/202634814/roots-of-samba-exploring-historic-pelourinho-in-salvador-brazil

 

All is more connected than we know.

 

Per the "spirit" above, our logo is a cortador de cana, a cane-cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specialized in. The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum... it dances and sings.

 

If You Can't Stand the Heat

 

Image above is from the base of the cross in front of the church of São Francisco do Paraguaçu in the Bahian Recôncavo

 

Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes, stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word, limned in cadenced song, Brazil is a conundrum wrapped in a smile inside an irony...

 

It is not a European nation. It is not a North American nation. It is not an East Asian nation. It straddles — jungle and desert and dense urban centers — both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. Brazil absorbed over ten times the number of enslaved Africans taken to the United States of America, and is a repository of African deities (and their music) now largely forgotten in their lands of origin. It was a refuge (of sorts) for Sephardim fleeing an Inquisition which followed them across the Atlantic (that unofficial symbol of Brazil's national music — the pandeiro — was almost certainly brought to Brazil by these people). Across the parched savannas of the interior of Brazil's culturally fecund nordeste/northeast, where wizard Hermeto Pascoal was born in Lagoa da Canoa (Lagoon of the Canoe) and raised in Olho d'Águia (Eye of the Eagle), much of Brazil's aboriginal population was absorbed into a caboclo/quilombola culture punctuated by the Star of David. Three cultures — from three continents — running for their lives, their confluence forming an unprecedented fourth. Pandeirista on the roof. Nowhere else but here.

 

Oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption — elements of these are still strongly entrenched — have defined, delineated, and limited Brazil.

 

But strictured & bound as it has been and is, Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of — or perhaps because of — the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.

 

For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...

 

Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.

 

"Onde tem miséria, tem música!"* - Raymundo Sodré

 

And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.

 

Welcome to the kitchen!

 

* "Where there is misery, there is music!" Remarked during a conversation arcing from Bahia to Haiti and Cuba to New Orleans and the south side of Chicago and Harlem to the villages of Ireland and the gypsy camps and shtetls of Eastern Europe...

 

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  • Bio: Elif Shafak is an award-winning British-Turkish novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She writes in both Turkish and English, and has published seventeen books, eleven of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, and Three Daughters of Eve. Her work has been translated into fifty languages. She is published by Penguin/Random House and represented by Curtis Brown globally. She was awarded the title of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres. In 2017 she was chosen by Politico as one of the twelve people who would make the world better.

    Shafak is also a political scientist and an academic. She holds a degree in International Relations, a masters’ degree in Gender and Women’s Studies and a PhD in Political Science and Political Philosophy. She has taught at various universities in Turkey, the UK and the USA, including St Anne's College, Oxford University, where she is an honorary fellow.

    Shafak is a member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy and a founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations). An advocate for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech, Shafak is an inspiring public speaker and twice a TED Global speaker, each time receiving a standing ovation.

    Shafak has been featured in and contributes to major newspapers and periodicals around the world, including the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Der Spiegel and La Repubblica. She has been longlisted for the Orange Prize, MAN Asian Prize; the Baileys Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize and RSL Ondaatje Prize

    She judged numerous prestigious literary prizes, including Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2013); Sunday Times Short Story Award (2014, 2015), Women of the Future Awards (2015); FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards (twice in 2015, 2016); Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction (2016); Man Booker International Prize (2017) and The Goldsmiths Prize (2018). This year Shafak is judging the Berggruen Culture and Philosophy Prize, and chairs the Wellcome Book Prize.

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    Chair of the Wellcome Book Prize 2019 judging panel.
    Honorary Fellow at St. Anne’s College, Oxford University.
    Patron of National Centre For Writing in Norwich, UNESCO City of Literature
    Weidenfeld Visiting Professor in Comparative European Literature at Oxford
    Berggruen Prize Juror for Philosophy & Culture
    Judge for The Goldsmiths Prize 2018
    Future Library Author 2017, Oslo, Norway
    Caravan Award for Peacebuilding Through the Arts, 2017
    Prize for Tolerance in Thinking and Acting, Prize of Honour of the Austrian Booksellers, 2017
    Judge for The Sunday Times/Peters Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year Award, 2017
    Member of Berggruen Prize Award Committee
    WOW committee member
    Lahore Literary Festival Lifetime Achievement Award, 2016
    Granted the Seal of the City and Certificate of Commendation by the City of Milan, 2016
    2016 GTF Award for Excellence in Promoting Gender Equality
    Judge for 2017 Man Booker International Prize
    Judge for FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, 2016
    Judge for the 2016 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction
    Cultural Leader; Member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy, Davos 2016
    Judge for the 10th Women of the Future Awards, 2015
    Judge for FT/Oppenheimer Funds Emerging Voices Awards, 2015
    Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2015: Global Empowerment Award
    The Architect's Apprentice, shortlisted for RSL Ondaatje Prize, 2015
    The Architect's Apprentice, longlisted for Walter Scott Historical Novel Prize, 2015
    Judge for Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Awards, 2015
    Board Member of Free Word Centre, which promotes literacy, literature and freedom of expression
    Member of English PEN
    Cultural ambassador for The Ottoman Orient in Renaissance Art/ BOZAR
    Member of the judging panel for the Sunday Times EFG Private Bank Short Story Award two consecutive years (2014, 2015)
    Cultural Leader; Member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on Creative Economy, Davos 2014
    Member of the Folio Academy
    Women To Watch Award, March 2014, Mediacat & Advertising Age
    Honour (Crime d’honneur, Phébus), Prix du livre Lorientales 2014
    Honour (Crime d’honneur, Phébus) le prix Escapades, 2014
    Honour, Nominated (longlisted) for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2013
    Turkish American Society Young Society Leader, 2013
    Honour (Crime d’honneur, Phébus), 2013 Prix Relay des voyageurs, France 2013
    Honour, Longlisted for Women’s Prize for Fiction, 2013
    Member of Weforum Global Agenda Council on The Role of Arts in Society
    Member of the 2013 judging panel for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
    Honour, Longlisted for the Man Asian Literary Prize, 2012
    The Forty Rules of Love, Nominated (longlisted) for International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, 2012
    The Forty Rules of Love (Soufi, mon amour, Phébus), Prix ALEF - Mention Spéciale Littérature Etrangère, France 2011
    Marka 2010 Award, Turkey
    Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, France, 2010
    TED Global speaker
    Ambassador of Culture Action Europe Campaign, 2010
    Special Envoy, EU-Turkey Cultural Bridges Programme, 2010
    Turkish Journalists and Writers Foundation "The Art of Coexistence Award-2009"
    International Rising Talent, Women's Forum - Deauville, France 2009
    The Bastard of Istanbul, Longlisted for Orange Prize for Fiction, London 2008
    Founding member of ECFR (European Council on Foreign Relations)
    The Gaze, Longlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, United Kingdom 2007
    Maria Grazia Cutuli Award - International Journalism Prize, Italy 2006
    The Flea Palace, Shortlisted for Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, United Kingdom 2005
    The Gaze, Union of Turkish Writers' Best Novel Prize, 2000
    Pinhan, The Great Rumi Award, Turkey 1998

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