► No matter how big a small world network grows, it remains amazingly small. Put a billion people inside it and they will STILL seldom be more than several steps apart.

► The matrix virtualizes such a network to make an unlikely group of Brazilian musicians discoverable and accessible by anybody anywhere in world.

► But in order to work for the Brazilians, the system has to work for everybody.

► Matrix headquarters. Interview above is by David Dye for broadcast on U.S. National Public Radio. Pre Brazil I "rescued" royalties for Aretha Franklin, Barbra Streisand, Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Jim Hall, Ray Barretto, Airto Moreira, Earl Carroll of The Cadillacs, Rob Royer of Bread, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), and many others.