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The Matrix Online Network is a platform conceived & built in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil and upon which people & entities across the creative economic universe can 1) present in variegated detail what it is they do, 2) recommend others, and 3) be recommended by others. Integrated by recommendations and governed by the metamathematical magic of the small world phenomenon (popularly called "6 degrees of separation"), matrix pages tend to discoverable proximity to all other matrix pages, no matter how widely separated in location, society, and degree of fame. From Quincy Jones to celestial samba in the favelas of Rio de Janeiro to you, all is closer than we imagine.

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From Brazil with love →

@ 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...

 

This 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...

 

Harlem to Bahia to the Planet



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...

 

Like this (but in Portuguese): "It's kind of like Facebook if it didn't spy on you, but reversed... more about who you don't know than who you do know. And who doesn't know you but would be glad if they did. It's kind of like old Myspace Music but instead of having "friends" it has a list on your page of people you recommend. Not just musicians but writers, painters, filmmakers, dancers, chefs... anybody in the creative economy. It has a list of people who recommend you, or through whom you are recommended. It deals with arts which aren't recommendable by algorithm but need human intelligence behind recommendations. And the people who are recommended can recommend, creating a network of recommendations wherein by the small world phenomenon most people in the creative economy are within several steps of everybody else in the creative economy, no matter where they are in the world. Like a chessboard which could have millions of squares, but you can get from any given square to any other in no more than six steps..."

 

And João said (in Portuguese): "A matrix where you can move from one artist 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.

 

  • Hélio Delmiro
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Hélio Delmiro
  • City/Place: Rio de Janeiro
  • Country: Brazil

Life & Work

  • Bio: Marvelous guitar player and composer from Brazil.

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: heliodelmiro
  • ▶ Instagram: heliodelmirofingers
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCG4A9qmCufXecpcutdW-ngQ
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/2Ju93eS0pLxi2iqN5jePk9
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/5KAB0hApGVmGMUE3QLHvhG
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4uQzD3KW4uCnOwep3eVXE3
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/6sSnoVW0B7koGwJeBVdZer
  • ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/7fCy5jx3BdxtSAEV52gHj9
  • ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/3wBX88Z5RucnxE9RppuZQb

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    By Hélio Delmiro
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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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  • Marília Sodré Bahia
  • Leonardo Mendes Santo Amaro
  • Jaimie Branch Free Jazz
  • Steve Bailey Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Joey Baron Drums
  • Sandro Albert New York City
  • Nate Smith Composer
  • Fidelis Melo Salvador
  • Damion Reid Drums
  • June Yamagishi R&B
  • Menelaw Sete Cubismo Afro-Brasileiro, Afro-Brazilian Cubism
  • Alexandre Vieira Salvador
  • Imani Winds Classical Music
  • Manu Chao Multi-Cultural
  • Mick Goodrick Guitar
  • Felipe Guedes Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Renato Braz Percussion
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Television Scores
  • Samuca do Acordeon Brazil
  • Jean Rondeau Composer
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  • Gamelan Sekar Jaya Bali
  • Ben Azar Composer
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Jazz
  • Perumal Murugan Writer
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Duduk
  • Alegre Corrêa Violin
  • Ann Hallenberg Opera Singer
  • Alan Brain Washington, D.C.
  • Luiz Brasil Guitar
  • Áurea Martins MPB
  • Trilok Gurtu Drums
  • Rema Namakula Uganda
  • Leigh Alexander Writer
  • Tatiana Campêlo Choreographer
  • Andrew Dickson Essayist
  • Joey Alexander New York City
  • Jim Hoke Record Producer
  • Mateus Asato Guitar
  • Seu Jorge Samba
  • Lizz Wright Blues
  • Ricardo Herz Brazil
  • Marco Pereira Samba
  • Brett Orrison Sound Engineer
  • Jocelyn Ramirez Chef
  • Uli Geissendoerfer Jazz
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Jazz
  • Julia Alvarez Middlebury College Faculty
  • Taylor Eigsti Composer
  • Tierra Whack Hip-Hop
  • Goran Krivokapić Contemporary Classical Music
  • Adam O'Farrill Multi-Cultural
  • Denzel Curry Rapper
  • Michael Kiwanuka Singer-Songwriter
  • Orrin Evans Jazz
  • Sarah Jarosz Singer-Songwriter
  • Aurino de Jesus Bahia
  • Diana Fuentes Singer-Songwriter
  • Parker Ighile Rapper
  • Júlio Caldas Bahia
  • Dale Barlow Jazz
  • Richard Bona Singer
  • André Becker Salvador
  • Ivan Neville Funk
  • Nate Smith Composer
  • Welson Tremura Latin American Classical Guitar
  • BIGYUKI Composer
  • Priscila Castro Carimbó
  • Liberty Ellman Jazz
  • Léo Rodrigues Pandeiro Instruction Online
  • Terrace Martin Jazz
  • André Becker Orquestra Sinfônica da Bahia
  • Lenna Bahule MPB
  • Roy Nathanson Film Scores
  • Ricardo Herz MPB
  • Donny McCaslin Jazz
  • Elio Villafranca Caribbean Music
  • Emicida São Paulo
  • Nação Zumbi Brazil
  • Jon Faddis Trumpet
  • Alex Conde Piano
  • Rogê MPB
  • Edmar Colón Piano
  • Liz Pelly Writer
  • Lolis Eric Elie Screenwriter
  • Tank and the Bangas New Orleans
  • John Luther Adams Contemporary Classical Music
  • Bruce Williams Juilliard Faculty
  • Cassie Kinoshi Composer
  • Ayrson Heráclito Visual Artist
  • Isaias Rabelo Piano
  • Matt Garrison Brooklyn, NY
  • Robi Botos Film Scores
  • Edgar Meyer Curtis Institute of Music Faculty
  • Yosvany Terry New York City
  • Martin Koenig Photographer
  • Choronas Baião
  • Darol Anger Composer
  • Daymé Arocena Santeria
  • Juçara Marçal São Paulo
  • Restaurante Axego Salvador
  • Melanie Charles Soul
  • Marcelo Caldi Accordion
  • Ethan Iverson Jazz
  • Yilian Cañizares Jazz
  • Chris Potter Composer
  • Abel Selaocoe Composer
  • Jon Cowherd Jazz
  • J. Pierre Painter
  • Merima Ključo Author
  • Jon Otis Singer-Songwriter
  • Liberty Ellman Composer
  • João Bosco Samba
  • Geovanna Costa Bahia
  • Bill T. Jones Choreographer
  • Jeff Ballard Jazz
  • Loli Molina Argentina
  • Simon Singh Television Producer
  • Fred Dantas Brazil
  • Margareth Menezes Afropop
  • Ray Angry Pan-Global Pop
  • Luizinho Assis Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Bule Bule Samba Rural
  • Grégoire Maret Composer
  • Scotty Barnhart Florida State University College of Music Faculty
  • Nelson Faria Guitar
  • Laércio de Freitas Arranger
  • Simon Shaheen Violin
  • Bodek Janke World Music
  • Flying Lotus Rapper
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Guitar
  • Hot Dougie's Local de Música ao Vivo
  • Marcus Teixeira MPB
  • Echezonachukwu Nduka Singer
  • Ibrahim Maalouf Classical Music
  • Alegre Corrêa Composer
  • Thiago Trad Berimbau
  • Dudu Reis Choro
  • Maladitso Band African Music
  • Alex Hargreaves Violin
  • Jeff 'Tain' Watts Composer
  • Luizinho Assis Jazz
  • Deesha Philyaw Short Stories
  • Hanif Abdurraqib Music Critic
  • John Patitucci Bass
  • Elif Şafak Writer
  • María Grand Composer
  • Yayá Massemba Brasil, Brazil
  • Lakecia Benjamin Composer
  • Ênio Bernardes Choro
  • Don Byron Blue Note Records
  • Archie Shepp Singer
  • Loli Molina Guitar
  • Lucian Ban New York City
  • Daniel Jobim Bossa Nova
  • Ronaldo Bastos Record Producer
  • Ed Roth Los Angeles
  • Paquito D'Rivera Classical Music
  • Melvin Gibbs Jazz Fusion
  • Bobby Vega Bass Instruction
  • Alan Brain Screenwriter
  • Jakub Knera Musical Event Producer
  • Jurandir Santana Guitar
  • Aubrey Johnson Brazilian Music
  • Maia Sharp Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Aurino de Jesus Samba
  • Marcos Sacramento Samba
  • Matt Ulery Bass
  • Doug Wamble New York City
  • Mariana Zwarg Composer
  • Richie Stearns Banjo
  • Berkun Oya Actor
  • Joachim Cooder Singer-Songwriter
  • David Sánchez Saxophone
  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Violin
  • Jean-Paul Bourelly Guitar
  • Babau Santana Pandeiro
  • Cathal McNaughton Street Photography Workshops
  • Eddie Kadi Pan-African Culture
  • Dale Farmer Appalachian Music
  • Iuri Passos Percussion
  • Steve Coleman Saxophone
  • Hélio Delmiro Guitar
  • Kurt Rosenwinkel Record Label Owner
  • Robi Botos Composer
  • Eddie Palmieri New York City
  • Alisa Weilerstein Berlin
  • Joe Chambers Composer
  • Omar Sosa Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Eduardo Kobra Arte Urbana, Urban Art
  • Andrew Finn Magill Appalachian Music
  • Teodor Currentzis Russia
  • J. Cunha Artista Plástico, Artist
  • Ayrson Heráclito Multimedia Artist
  • John Harle Record Producer
  • Philip Glass Film Scores
  • Woody Mann Writer
  • Martin Hayes County Clare
  • Nubya Garcia Composer
  • Tank and the Bangas Spoken Word
  • David Byrne Writer
  • Fred P Techno
  • Trombone Shorty Songwriter
  • Horácio Reis Salvador
  • Marcus Printup Arranger
  • Charlie Bolden Trumpet
  • Alegre Corrêa Brazil
  • Rotem Sivan Guitar
  • Kathy Chiavola Bluegrass
  • Jovino Santos Neto Composer
  • Steve McKeever Hidden Beach Recordings
  • Bebel Gilberto Brazil
  • Emily Elbert Los Angeles, California
  • José Antonio Escobar Chile
  • Shannon Ali Liner Notes
  • Jurandir Santana Barcelona
  • Gaby Moreno Singer-Songwriter
  • Michael League Composer
  • Mauro Senise Brazil
  • John Doyle Guitar
  • Caetano Veloso Salvador
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Guitar
  • Nancy Viégas Produtora Áudiovisual, Audiovisual Producer
  • Sharay Reed Composer
  • David Greely Cajun Fiddle
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Brazilian Jazz
  • Tom Piazza Novelist
  • Fábio Zanon Author
  • Wayne Escoffery Saxophone Instruction / Online Classes
  • Saileog Ní Cheannabháin Sean-Nós Singer
  • Miroslav Tadić Contemporary Classical Music
  • Craig Ross Guitar
  • Béco Dranoff Cultural Producer
  • Intisar Abioto Dancer
  • Ben Wolfe Double Bass
  • Jill Scott Poet
  • Serginho Meriti Composer
  • Airto Moreira Brazil
  • Nahre Sol YouTuber
  • Mickalene Thomas Video Artist
  • Paulinho da Viola Brazil
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Composer
  • Shabaka Hutchings Jazz
  • Nêgah Santos MPB
  • Walter Ribeiro, Jr. Forró
  • Badi Assad Singer-Songwriter
  • Logan Richardson New York City
  • Otis Brown III Jazz
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Tel Aviv
  • Irma Thomas Blues
  • Endea Owens Composer
  • Jonga Cunha Salvador
  • Amaro Freitas Composer
  • Aaron Parks Ropeadope
  • Caroline Shaw Violin
  • Marcelo Caldi Tango
  • Chau do Pife Forró
  • Rachael Price Americana
  • Siba Veloso Ciranda
  • Lokua Kanza African Music
  • Moacyr Luz Samba
  • Aneesa Strings R&B
  • Luiz Santos Rio de Janeiro
  • Psoy Korolenko Псой Короленко Moscow
  • Júlio Caldas Guitarra Baiana
  • Adriano Giffoni Rio de Janeiro
  • Zakir Hussain Percussion
  • Jimmy Duck Holmes Guitar
  • Jovino Santos Neto Piano
  • Betsayda Machado Folk & Traditional
  • Leo Nocentelli R&B
  • Corey Harris Blues
  • Nelson Ayres São Paulo
  • Raul Midón Guitar
  • Rahim AlHaj Iraq
  • Juliana Ribeiro Salvador
  • Julia Alvarez Latin American Literature
  • Cainã Cavalcante MPB
  • Luizinho Assis Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Tito Jackson Blues
  • Tal Wilkenfeld Los Angeles
  • Willie Jones III Drums
  • David Bragger Guitar Instruction
  • Júlio Caldas Viola Caipira
  • Karla Vasquez Salvadoran Food
  • Nancy Viégas Fotógrafa, Photographer
  • Gilson Peranzzetta Rio de Janeiro
  • Malin Fezehai Visual Reporter
  • Andrew Finn Magill Violin
  • Dumpstaphunk New Orleans
  • Ubiratan Marques Brasil, Brazil
  • Cashmere Cat Norway
  • Kiko Souza Ska
  • Chris McQueen Guitar
  • Sam Eastmond Trumpet
  • Richard Galliano Choro
  • Lalah Hathaway R&B
  • Lula Moreira Sculptor
  • Brian Lynch Composer
  • Hugo Rivas Composer
  • Ajurinã Zwarg Choro
  • Fabian Almazan New York City
  • Gian Correa Composer
  • Djuena Tikuna São Luís, Maranhão
  • Gino Banks India
  • Derek Sivers Writer
  • Tom Piazza Liner Notes
  • Morten Lauridsen Contemporary Classical Music
  • Yosvany Terry Saxophone
  • Neo Muyanga Singer
  • J. Velloso Songwriter
  • Thomas Àdes Composer
  • Jeremy Danneman Composer
  • Alan Brain Peru
  • Jas Kayser Panama
  • Malin Fezehai Photographer
  • Catherine Bent Composer
  • Rob Garland Jazz, Rock
  • Di Freitas Cello
  • Helado Negro Ecuador
  • Clint Smith Black American Culture & History
  • Júlio Lemos Guitar
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Suona
  • Richard Bona Cameroon
  • Ray Angry Record Producer
  • Willy Schwarz Jewish Music
  • Walter Pinheiro Saxophone
  • Margareth Menezes Brazil
  • Arto Tunçboyacıyan Jazz
  • Cleber Augusto Songwriter
  • Amaro Freitas Maracatu
  • Kirk Whalum Flute
  • Ronaldo do Bandolim Rio de Janeiro
  • Angel Bat Dawid Black American Traditional Music
  • Dave Smith Drums
  • Tyler Gordon Writer
  • Thiago Espírito Santo Produtor Musical, Music Producer
  • Shankar Mahadevan Mumbai
  • Don Moyer Graphic Design
  • Anoushka Shankar Author
  • Gringo Cardia Video Director
  • Carl Allen New York City
  • Thiago Amud Singer-Songwriter
  • Domingos Preto Brazil
  • Jack Talty Record Label Owner
  • Linda Sikhakhane Ropeadope
  • Ferenc Nemeth Composer

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We're a real mother for ya!

 

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