This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
THIS MATRIX, THOUGH BRAZIL-BORN, IS UNIVERSAL
This Maria Nunes matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Maria Nunes.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Maria Nunes (node) ROUTES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Maria Nunes's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
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Who & Where
- Name: Maria Nunes
- City/Place: Port of Spain
- Country: Trinidad and Tobago
Life & Work
- Bio: Maria Nunes is a photographer in Trinidad and Tobago with special interests in capturing imagery related to the performing arts and in documenting cultural heritage, especially traditional Carnival portrayals.
Contact Information
- Email: nunesie2@gmail.com
- Telephone: +1 868-687-4855
Media & Markets
- ▶ Instagram: marianunesphotography
- ▶ Website: http://www.marianunes.com
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
CARNIVAL PERFORMANCE ART: Special focus on the Blue Devil tradition in Paramin, Trinidad, as well as extensive work documenting the contemporary portrayals of carnival traditions such as Fancy Sailor, Moko Jumbie, Midnight Robber, Jab Jab and Dame Lorraine.
CULTURAL HERITAGE: Exhibition of images to commemorate Emancipation Day in 2012, official photographer for the Trinidad and Tobago delegation to Carifesta in Suriname in 2012,
MUSIC: a commission by the National Parang Association of Trinidad and Tobago in 2010, photo documentation of SteelFestt in 2012 and photography of the National Steel Symphony Orchestra's participation in the 9th China International Folk Arts Festival in Yichang and Beijing in 2013. In addition, Maria specializes in concert photography and works closely with many leading Trinidad and Tobago jazz artists such as Etienne Charles and Vaughnette Bigford and leading steelbands such as Trinidad All Stars.
DANCE: Photographer-in-residence for New Waves! Institute from 2011-2014 in Trinidad and Haiti, Official photographer for the Noble Douglas Dance Company and Lilliput Children's Theatre in 2013-14.
FILM: Filmed and edited "Rainforest: A Musical Postcard from Trinidad" which was screened at the Trinidad and Tobago Film Festival in 2011 and was field producer for Mystic Fighters, a film by Sophie Meyer.
MUSIC-THEATRE: Maria is a founding Director of Calabash Foundation for the Arts and is the producer of Jab Molassie, an original music-theatre work written by Caitlyn Kamminga and Dominique Le Gendre.
Maria's interest in the arts has been significantly influenced by her love of music which includes a special interest in collecting early calypso, string band and big band recordings of Trinidad and Tobago, as well as traditional folk and stickfighting songs.
Apart her arts based portfolio, Maria also has developed a significant body of work in sports action photography for the First Citizens Sports Foundation.
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' 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... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, 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 specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
