Salvador Bahia Brazil Matrix

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.

  • Sign in
  • Join Everybody Here
    Loading ...
View All Updates Mark All Read
  • Matrix Home
  • Categories are Here!
  • Showcase Music
  • Add Videos/SC
  • Add Photos
  • (Bahia)
  • Questions?
  • From Brazil with love →
  • @ Ground Zero
  • El Aleph
  • If You Can't Stand the Heat
  • Harlem to Bahia to the Planet
  • Why a "Matrix"?

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.

 

  • Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
    I RECOMMEND

CURATION

  • from this node by: Matrix+

This is the Universe of

  • Name: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
  • City/Place: Los Angeles, California
  • Country: United States

Life & Work

  • Bio: Miguel Atwood-Ferguson is a multi-instrumentalist, arranger, composer, music director, producer, DJ, and educator based in his hometown of Los Angeles, California.

    The depth and range of Atwood-Ferguson’s work is vast, having contributed to over 500 recordings, and 2,500 live concerts. He has a rare gift and serious devotion and dedication to developing it; he effortlessly bridges diverse genres and generations of musical and cultural elements into cohesive and magical presentations. And it’s his ability to connect with music of all styles, forms and traditions that sets him apart. Miguel’s interests are many and he performs, tours and records with ensembles ranging from electronic, avant-garde, jazz, classical, hip-hop, and pop to name a few from countries all around the world. Many long years of practice and study prepared him for what is now a life of constant composing, conducting, performing, improvising, and producing.

    Miguel’s formal violin lessons started at age 4, though he recalls experiencing music as early as in utero. “I experienced live music while my mom was pregnant with me when she went to weekly music nights with my dad at their friend’s house.” The child of two musical parents – his mother a special-education teacher, his father a multi-instrumentalist, composer, and accomplished recording artist – Miguel was raised in a creative environment, growing up in the famed artist district of Topanga Canyon. With so many influences to mention, both musical and other, Miguel thinks back fondly on what he listened to growing up, “Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, opera, country music, Motown, Jimi Hendrix, Elvis Presley, and The Beatles . . .” In addition he listens to and finds great inspiration from, “My friends and colleagues, as well as greats such as John Coltrane, J.S. Bach, Maurice Ravel, Duke Ellington, Gil Evans, Hermeto Pascoal, Einojuhani Rautavaara, Bernard Herrmann, Henri Dutilleux, Fritz Kreisler, L. Subramaniam, Sergei Prokofiev, Dmitri Shostakovich, Béla Bartók, Claude Debussy, Johannes Brahms, Igor Stravinsky, Charlie Parker, McCoy Tyner, Elvin Jones, Thelonious Monk, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, Tony Williams, Woody Shaw, Eric Dolphy, Larry Young, Herbie Hancock, Stevie Wonder, Curtis Mayfield, Miles Davis, Ray Charles, J Dilla, James Brown, Kenny Kirkland, Dave Holland, Brad Mehldau, Mulgrew Miller, Michael Jackson, James Jamerson, Madlib, MF Doom, etc . . .”

    Currently working on various solo, duet, ensemble, and concept records where he is the lead artist, Miguel also makes time to write and perform arrangements for a wide array of artists and bands as well as leading his groups Quartetto Fantastico, The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble and specialized orchestral configurations. It is his goal “to build toward having an orchestra that plays music from across the globe with international musicians of Peace and Love.” All of this was set up by a career as a session violist and budding symphonic composer that started in his days as a junior high-school student at Paul Revere Middle School when The Pacific Palisades Symphony performed his ‘Serenade in D Major’. (By the age of 17, Miguel had already been the feature of segments on KCET and the Disney Channel, highlighting his incredible talents. It was clear then, that with focus and determination, Miguel would reach great heights, and when he presented his final project as a high school senior at Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, his first viola concerto ‘In Memoriam Of Love Lost’, his path was all the brighter). He would move on from Crossroads to the University of Southern California, where he graduated with a degree in Viola Performance, and a growing resumé.

    As a violist, Miguel appeared with Big Boi (Outkast) at the 2004 Kid’s Choice Awards on Nickelodeon, with Rihanna on the Jay Leno Show and at the 2007 American Music Awards, with Christina Aguilera on her 2006 MTV special ‘Back to Basics’, and with John Legend and Kirk Franklin at the 2008 BET Gospel Celebration. He also played with Shakira, Wyclef Jean and Gnarls Barkley at the 2007 Grammy Awards, with Hall & Oates on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Extra, and The Megan Mullally Show, and with Pink at the 2008 American Music Awards. In 2009, Miguel was on the season finale of ‘America’s Got Talent’, backing up Susan Boyle. Miguel returned to CBS studios again to perform on ‘American Idol’ backing up Lana Del Rey and to Warner Bros. to perform with both Father John Misty and Mikal Cronin on The Conan O’Brien Show in 2014 and Robert Glasper in 2016. Miguel had the honor of playing violin on stage with Lady Gaga for her career breakthrough performance of The Sound of Music at the 87th Annual Oscar Awards in 2015. In 2017, Miguel had the honor of arranging for and performing with a string quartet on the Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon for artists Anderson .Paak and Knxwledge supporting their duo group 'NxWorries.'

    In orchestral settings, Miguel has joined the likes of John Williams, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Michael Tilson Thomas, Zubin Mehta, Emanuel Ax, James Galway, Sarah Chang, Feist, Roy Hargrove, Francisco Aguabella, Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder, Wayne Shorter, Ray Brown, Brad Mehldau, Guru (Gang Starr), Vince Mendoza, and Henry Mancini among many others. In 2013, through a NEA grant, Miguel was commissioned to write a concerto for Flute, Viola, and Jazz Orchestra which was premiered to great acclaim.

    As a studio musician, he has recorded for Mary J. Blige, will.i.am, Dr. Dre, Flying Lotus, Anderson .Paak, Raphael Saadiq, Kobe Bryant, Seu Jorge, Heath Ledger, Lianne La Havas, John Cale, Swizz Beatz, Eddie Murphy, No I.D., Barry Manilow, Kimbra, David Foster, Joss Stone, Bilal, Michael Bublé, Marisa Monte, Common, Randy Jackson, and on Ray Charles’ Grammy winning album ‘Genius Loves Company’.

    As a featured artist, Miguel has performed and/or recorded alongside Hubert Laws, Billy Higgins, Brian Blade, Kamasi Washington, Flying Lotus, Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner, Erykah Badu, The Roots, Chaka Khan, Robert Glasper, Alphonse Mouzon, Airto Moreira, Buster Williams, The Cinematic Orchestra, Harvey Mason, Saul Williams, Billy Childs, Henry Grimes, Patrice Rushen, Ndugu Chancler, Hiatus Kaiyote, Bennie Maupin, Ravi Coltrane, Eric Harland, and The Hypnotic Brass Ensemble.

    Miguel has had the honor of performing in the personal bands of Anderson .Paak, Flying Lotus, Austin Peralta, Kamasi Washington, Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner, Makaya McCraven, Jamael Dean, Dwight Trible, Mulatu Astatke, Arthur Verocai, Bebel Gilberto, Azar Lawrence, Wadada Leo Smith, Carlos Niño, Mia Doi Todd, Nate Morgan, Alex Cline, Vardan Ovsepian, Josh Nelson, and Chris Abani among many others.

    Miguel has performed at top venues throughout the United States, Canada, Mexico, Japan, South America, Australia, and Europe. In addition, he’s been a featured performer on the internationally acclaimed BBC Radio 1 program ‘Worldwide’ in London hosted by Gilles Peterson and on Los Angeles-based stations KUSC 91.5 FM, KCRW 89.9 FM and KPFK 90.7 FM. Miguel has also been a part of 3 TED Conference events as a performer, composer and guest programmer.

    One of Miguel’s most incredible gifts is the ability to record ‘orchestras’ of himself, and was coined “The One Man Orchestra” by will.i.am. As a 1 man orchestra, Miguel composes for violin, viola, cello, and sometimes basses, piano, keyboards and percussion, and plays all of the instruments. A major part of his livelihood has been doing just that for esteemed people such as Oprah Winfrey, who in 2011, chose to use ‘Own It’, a song Miguel made with will.i.am for the Black Eyed Peas album ‘The Beginning’, as the theme music for the main promo of her new TV Network ‘OWN’.

    Another of Miguel’s great achievements was in 2009 when he composed and conducted the historic ‘Suite for Ma Dukes’ concert in Los Angeles leading over 60 musicians, whom he chose and contracted, in tribute to the transcendent modern hip-hop producer J Dilla. As composer and conductor that legendary February night, Miguel featured special guests Bilal, Posdnous (De La Soul), Talib Kweli, Karriem Riggins, Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner, and more. The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble has featured guest appearances by Sly Stone, Shuggie Otis, George Clinton, Seu Jorge, Kamasi Washington, Sa-Ra Creative Partners, Leon Ware, Flying Lotus, Chris ‘Daddy’ Dave, Moses Sumney, Marie Daulne (Zap Mama), J Rocc, Coco (Quadron), Georgia Anne Muldrow, Austin Peralta, James Gadson, Mayer Hawthorne, José James, Meshell Ndegeocello, Aloe Blacc, Pharoahe Monch, Daedelus, Sara Gazarek, Nai Palm (Hiatus Kaiyote), Deantoni Parks and Ndugu Chancler, among others.

    In 2016, Miguel had the honor and great responsibility of orchestrating and conducting the entire Season 1 of the acclaimed 'Luke Cage' series by Marvel Comics. Miguel helped define the character of the music for the series by selecting the instruments that you hear on the soundtrack and by the unique way in which he wrote for them each episode. Miguel at times composed his own unique melodies around those of the credited composers in addition to helping conceive of the sound of the score itself by choosing to have the sound of muted brass throughout the soundtrack adding to the sinister qualities of some of the gangster characters of the show and by having the harp featured in the particular way Miguel chose to write for it.

    Later in 2016, Miguel was reunited with Dr. Dre as he was called upon to orchestrate and conduct the score for Apple Music's 'Vital Signs' bio pic series starring Dr. Dre.

    Miguel concluded 2016 with performing Suite For Ma Dukes at the London Jazz Festival to rave reviews. An organizer of the London Jazz Festival remarked that Miguel's performance was "One of the best performances in the history of the London Jazz Festival."

    2017 saw Miguel continuing to score, write, record and perform towards his own projects like presenting Suite for Ma Dukes in Los Angeles, London, North Sea Jazz Festival, and New York's Lincoln Center all to great acclaim as well as producing the musical score for the recently released Puff Daddy's 'Can't Stop, Won't Stop' documentary of Bad Boy Records.

    In 2017, modern icon, Questlove of the legendary band The Roots, reached to Miguel asking him to arrange and conduct a very special Orchestral concert for Amazon Music which featured the Roots, Chaka Khan, Robert Glasper, Erykah Badu, Black Thought, and Bilal. After the great success of that concert, Questlove employed Miguel once again in 2018 to arrange the bulk of the music for ‘4U: A Symphonic Celebration of Prince’ which is still currently touring globally to critical acclaim.

    2018 and 2019 included Miguel leading his own groups to extremely receptive large crowds in New York, Tel Aviv, Jerusalem, Cape Town South Africa, and Geneva Switzerland.

    Recently, Miguel had the honor of being a co-writer on the song ‘Make It Better’ featuring one of the biggest legends of recorded Music- the Great Smokey Robinson. The song is featured on the 2020 Grammy winning R&B album of the year ‘Ventura’ by Anderson. Paak. Additionally, Miguel arranged and recorded string orchestras of himself on two songs.

    In 2021, Miguel Atwood-Ferguson’s debut record 'Les Jardins Mystiques' will be released on the Los Angeles indie label ‘Brainfeeder’.

Contact Information

  • Contact by Webpage: http://www.miguelatwoodferguson.com/connect-1
  • Record Company: Brainfeeder

Media | Markets

  • ▶ Twitter: MiguelAtwdFrgsn
  • ▶ Instagram: miguelatwoodferguson
  • ▶ Website: http://www.miguelatwoodferguson.com
  • ▶ YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/miguelsokaviola
  • ▶ YouTube Music: http://music.youtube.com/channel/UCLjUIiNAp6JB58HxVxh4LfQ
  • ▶ Spotify: http://open.spotify.com/album/7Lk6pVooHad3TIwkb6GQdU?si=72d0499df5b64d35
  • ▶ Spotify 2: http://open.spotify.com/album/27WhSdin9UzPN6wf5a0SPx?si=580d7949396b40c8
  • ▶ Spotify 3: http://open.spotify.com/album/4q7JXNMPSRDwqeKAz9jHlX?si=c03350e2c32a4920
  • ▶ Spotify 4: http://open.spotify.com/album/2tDtIh52EB26AAZUKtKev7?si=792e67ae4ef94fc7
  • ▶ Spotify 5: http://open.spotify.com/album/0XTdyTQDPAzTWcrnPnYV6b?si=9f5b307d8fa84b0a
  • ▶ Spotify 6: http://open.spotify.com/album/7vO8z936RDeskc2fn5VrZA?si=558284abc7d2411f
  • ▶ Articles: http://www.miguelatwoodferguson.com/press

Clips (more may be added)

  • 0:15:05
    The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble: 'Epsilon Eridani/When You're Older'
    By Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
    96 views
  • 0:13:19
    MIguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble feat Flying Lotus "Drips/Take Notice"
    By Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
    85 views
  • 4:23
    The Miguel Atwood-Ferguson Ensemble: 'Deliver the Word' feat. Aloe Blacc
    By Miguel Atwood-Ferguson
    84 views
Previous
Next

YOU RECOMMEND

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.


Appear below by recommending Miguel Atwood-Ferguson:

  • 4 Arranger
  • 4 Composer
  • 4 DJ
  • 4 Film Scores
  • 4 Los Angeles
  • 4 Multi-Instrumentalist
  • 4 Music Producer
  • 4 Television Scores
  • 4 Violin

Nodes below are randomly generated. Reload for a different stack.

  • David Braid London
  • Stephen Guerra Author
  • Liron Meyuhas Multi-Cultural
  • Utar Artun Percussion
  • Eli Degibri אלי דג'יברי Saxophone
  • Lenna Bahule MPB
  • The Umoza Music Project London
  • Kalani Pe'a Singer-Songwriter
  • Guto Wirtti Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Oscar Peñas Jazz
  • Martín Sued Accordion
  • Seckou Keita Africa
  • Rema Namakula Singer
  • Jeff 'Tain' Watts Actor
  • Mário Santana Candomblé
  • Harold López-Nussa Composer
  • Donna Leon Crime Novels
  • Martin Koenig Liner Notes
  • Guto Wirtti Rio de Janeiro
  • Susheela Raman Indian Classical Music
  • César Orozco Piano
  • Willie Jones III Drumming Instruction
  • Alain Pérez Cuba
  • Corey Harris Guitar
  • Mika Mutti Brazil
  • Elif Şafak Novelist
  • Yamandu Costa Brazil
  • Yasushi Nakamura Japan
  • Ricardo Bacelar Compositor, Composer
  • Chucho Valdés Composer
  • Rez Abbasi New York City
  • Mayra Andrade Lisbon
  • Marcus J. Moore Editor
  • Marcos Portinari Rio de Janeiro
  • Victor Wooten Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • A-KILL Building Art
  • Paul McKenna Scottish Traditional Music
  • Karim Ziad Algeria
  • Ofer Mizrahi Multi-Cultural
  • Flor Jorge Singer-Songwriter
  • Seth Rogovoy Jewish Music
  • Marquis Hill Hip-Hop
  • Brigit Katz Toronto
  • Stefano Bollani Writer
  • Robert Glasper Piano
  • Shamarr Allen R&B
  • Liz Dany Colombia
  • Matt Glaser Fiddle
  • Alana Gabriela Salvador
  • Luciano Salvador Bahia Guitar
  • Jan Ramsey Zydeco
  • Samuca do Acordeon Chamamé
  • Michael Olatuja Jazz
  • Zigaboo Modeliste Funk
  • Rosa Cedrón Cello
  • Carlinhos Brown Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Rudy Royston Photographer
  • Donald Harrison Mardi Gras Indian
  • Dani Deahl Public Speaker
  • Lizz Wright Chicago, Illinois
  • Marc Ribot Free Jazz
  • Roy Germano Filmmaker
  • David Bragger Mandolin Instruction
  • Moacyr Luz Rio de Janeiro
  • Paulo Costa Lima Faculdade da UFBA, Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • David Castillo Los Angeles
  • Henrique Cazes Bandolim
  • Philip Watson Ireland
  • Jimmy Duck Holmes Singer-Songwriter
  • Mariene de Castro Samba de Roda
  • Fábio Zanon Brazil
  • Paulinho da Viola Brazil
  • João Teoria Brasil, Brazil
  • Baiba Skride Violin
  • Courtney Pine Radio Presenter
  • John Patrick Murphy Forró
  • Lalah Hathaway Singer-Songwriter
  • Hisham Mayet Filmmaker
  • Questlove Rapper
  • Stefano Bollani Italy
  • Elza Soares Rio de Janeiro
  • Don Byron Jazz
  • Spok Frevo Orquestra Frevo
  • Bongo Joe Records Café
  • Nicolas Krassik MPB
  • Willie Jones III New York City
  • Moses Boyd Electronic Music
  • Anthony Hamilton Singer-Songwriter
  • The Brain Cloud New York City
  • Ferenc Nemeth Jazz
  • Tessa Hadley Bath Spa University Faculty
  • Alex Rawls Music, Culture Website Owner, Editor
  • Hélio Delmiro Samba
  • Ron Carter Bass
  • John McWhorter Columbia University Faculty
  • Yasushi Nakamura Composer
  • Chris Speed Composer
  • Tomo Fujita Songwriter
  • Emicida Singer-Songwriter
  • Domingos Preto Bahia
  • David Bragger Fiddle
  • Sammy Britt Delta State University Faculty
  • Tiganá Santana Trilhas Sonoras, Film Scores
  • Amit Chatterjee Composer
  • Jovino Santos Neto Rio de Janeiro
  • Danilo Caymmi Record Producer
  • Adriano Souza Piano
  • John Francis Flynn Ireland
  • Paulinho Fagundes Composer
  • Kiya Tabassian كيا طبسيان Film Scores
  • Nate Smith Music Producer
  • Brandee Younger Harp
  • Yoron Israel Jazz
  • Owen Williams Software Engineer
  • Kurt Andersen Journalist
  • Yunior Terry Afro-Cuban Jazz
  • Papa Mali New Orleans
  • Swami Jr. Brazilian Jazz
  • Joel Guzmán Tejano
  • Rema Namakula African Music
  • Duncan Chisholm Fiddle
  • Musa Okwonga Uganda
  • Harold López-Nussa Cuba
  • Arthur Verocai Rio de Janeiro
  • Ben Cox Cinematographer
  • Berta Rojas Berklee College of Music Faculty
  • Vincent Herring Manhattan School of Music Faculty
  • Jean Rondeau Paris
  • Bebel Gilberto Bossa Nova
  • Hopkinson Smith Baroque Guitar
  • Marcus Miller Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Thundercat Record Producer
  • ANNA DJ
  • Renee Rosnes New York City
  • Stuart Duncan Americana
  • Burkard Polster YouTuber
  • Neymar Dias Brazil
  • Carlos Malta Pífano
  • Armen Donelian Composer
  • Jahi Sundance DJ
  • Geovanna Costa Violão, Guitar
  • Luke Daniels Scotland
  • Bertram Drum Set Performance
  • John Patrick Murphy Brazilian Music
  • The Rheingans Sisters Sheffield
  • Swami Jr. Samba
  • Raphael Saadiq Neo Soul
  • Third Coast Percussion Percussion Ensemble
  • Django Bates Composer
  • Adam Rogers Jazz
  • Chubby Carrier Singer-Songwriter
  • Nelson Latif Brazilian Jazz
  • Teresa Cristina Brazil
  • Vanessa Moreno Singer-Songwriter
  • Nancy Ruth Multi-Cultural
  • Brandee Younger Pop Music
  • Robert Randolph Soul
  • Kenyon Dixon Soul
  • Alexa Tarantino New York City
  • Avishai Cohen אבישי כה Jazz
  • Matt Glaser Jazz
  • Bhi Bhiman Singer-Songwriter
  • Lula Moreira Documentary Filmmaker
  • Itamar Borochov Trumpet
  • Caroline Shaw NYU Faculty
  • Adonis Rose Drums
  • Mehdi Rajabian Record Producer
  • Shuya Okino Composer
  • Alan Williams Found & Recycled
  • Yunior Terry NYU Faculty
  • Sahba Aminikia San Francisco
  • China Moses R&B
  • Júlio Lemos Choro
  • Eamonn Flynn Soul
  • Hamilton de Holanda Brazil
  • Luizinho Assis Bahia
  • David Chesky Jazz
  • Anoushka Shankar Tanpura
  • The Umoza Music Project African Music
  • Martin Fondse Amsterdam
  • Paddy Groenland World Music
  • Keola Beamer Hawaiian Music
  • Morgan Page EDM
  • Vânia Oliveira Salvador
  • Shabaka Hutchings Composer
  • Chris Cheek Saxophone
  • Dave Smith Alternative, Improv
  • Lenna Bahule Brazil
  • Ubiratan Marques Música Clássica Contemporânia, Contemporary Classical Music
  • Juçara Marçal Brazil
  • James Andrews Jazz
  • Ênio Bernardes Salvador
  • Bukassa Kabengele Brazil
  • Jean Rondeau Composer
  • Reena Esmail Hindustani Classical Music
  • Dave Eggers Writer
  • Melanie Charles Soul
  • Asma Khalid Journalist
  • Natan Drubi Salvador
  • Caroline Shaw New York City
  • Roberta Sá Singer
  • Chris McQueen App Developer
  • Yilian Cañizares Havana
  • Dwandalyn Reece Museum Professional
  • Samuel Organ Synthesizers
  • Serwah Attafuah Punk
  • Cory Henry Funk
  • Walter Blanding Clarinet
  • Olga Mieleszczuk Accordion
  • Robi Botos Hungary
  • Gabriel Policarpo Rio de Janeiro
  • Logan Richardson Saxophone
  • Justin Stanton Keyboards
  • 小野リサ Lisa Ono Jazz
  • Ashley Pezzotti Jazz
  • John Santos Composer
  • Charles Munka Drawings
  • Steve McKeever Record Label Owner
  • Varijashree Venugopal Film Scores
  • Restaurante Axego Salvador
  • Neymar Dias São Paulo
  • Munir Hossn Guitar
  • Zeca Pagodinho Rio de Janeiro
  • Jane Ira Bloom Composer
  • Kiko Souza MPB
  • Júlio Caldas Brasil, Brazil
  • Del McCoury Guitar
  • Joe Newberry Guitar Instruction
  • Cleber Augusto Samba
  • Eric Coleman Documentary Filmmaker
  • Cláudio Jorge MPB
  • Manolo Badrena Berimbau
  • Askia Davis Sr. Educational Consultant
  • Yazhi Guo 郭雅志 Microtonal
  • Stanton Moore New Orleans
  • João Camarero Samba
  • Jess Gillam Concert Promoter
  • Lucian Ban Composer
  • Aindrias de Staic Ireland
  • Del McCoury Country
  • Ivan Huol Salvador
  • Marcos Sacramento Rio de Janeiro
  • Makaya McCraven Jazz
  • Brett Orrison Sound Engineer
  • Garvia Bailey Radio Producer
  • Jas Kayser Jazz
  • Demond Melancon Black Masker
  • Ben Wolfe Bass
  • Bhi Bhiman Los Angeles
  • Magary Lord Salvador
  • THE ROOM Shibuya Cocktail Bar
  • Flor Jorge Brazil
  • Christone 'Kingfish' Ingram Guitar
  • Michael Janisch Experimental Music
  • Scotty Apex Record Producer
  • Garth Cartwright DJ
  • Yoruba Andabo Rumba
  • Ana Tijoux Rapper
  • Ivan Bastos Faculdade da UFBA, Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Vivien Schweitzer Photographer
  • André Vasconcellos Jazz Brasileiro, Brazilian Jazz
  • Richard Bona Composer
  • Jacob Collier Singer
  • MARO Singer-Songwriter
  • Chelsea Kwakye UK
  • Rodrigo Caçapa Composer
  • Jon Faddis Purchase College Conservatory of Music Faculty
  • Igor Osypov Germany
  • Gregory Tardy Clarinet
  • Joatan Nascimento Federal University of Bahia Faculty
  • Derrick Hodge Composer
  • Darol Anger Americana
  • Ofer Mizrahi Multi-Cultural
  • Keyon Harrold R&B
  • Flor Jorge Los Angeles
  • Miguel Zenón Jazz
  • Marc Johnson New York City
  • Calida Rawles Painter
  • Ranky Tanky Gullah Geechee
  • Jay Blakesberg Photographer
  • Renato Braz Percussion
  • Jessie Montgomery Educator
  • Vijay Iyer Jazz
  • Gustavo Di Dalva Percussion Instruction Online
  • Giba Gonçalves Candomblé
  • Fabiana Cozza Brazil
  • Simon Singh Journalist
  • Ivo Perelman Brazilian Jazz
  • Liz Pelly NYU Tisch School of the Arts Faculty
  • Márcio Bahia MPB
  • Jerry Douglas Guitar
  • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Writer
  • Seckou Keita Composer
  • Glória Bomfim Candomblé
  • Varijashree Venugopal Brazilian Music
  • Liron Meyuhas Tel Aviv
  • Daru Jones Jazz
  • Msaki Singer-Songwriter
  • Patty Kiss Frevo
  • Richard Bona Jazz
  • Samba de Nicinha Santo Amaro
  • Arthur Jafa Multidisciplinary Artist
  • David Binney Record Producer
  • Ceumar Coelho Brazil
  • Horácio Reis Salvador
  • Daru Jones Hip-Hop
  • Taylor Eigsti Piano
  • Ron McCurdy USC Thornton School of Music Faculty
  • Melanie Charles Beatmaker
  • Louis Michot Fiddle
  • Ben Street New York City
  • André Mehmari Composer
  • Magda Giannikou Accordion
  • Sheryl Bailey Jazz
  • Paquito D'Rivera Clarinet
  • Abel Selaocoe Manchester
  • Jonathan Scales New York City
  • Andrew Finn Magill Appalachian Music
  • Django Bates Theater Composer
  • Gretchen Parlato New York City
  • Jared Jackson New York City
  • Hélio Delmiro Composer
  • Chris Acquavella Classical Music
  • Mário Santana Bahia
  • Brandon Coleman Los Angeles
  • Chucho Valdés Cuba
  • Lula Galvão Classical Guitar
  • Menelaw Sete Pelourinho
  • Brandee Younger New School College of Performing Arts Faculty
  • Bertram Educator
  • Leyla McCalla Cello
  • Ariane Astrid Atodji Yaoundé
  • Chris Boardman University of Miami Frost School of Music Faculty
  • Jon Cowherd Jazz
  • VJ Gabiru DJ
  • Dezron Douglas Composer
  • Mestrinho Singer-Songwriter
  • Zara McFarlane Jazz
  • Edmar Colón Puerto Rico
  • Jeff Tweedy Multi-Instrumentalist
  • Keyon Harrold Jazz
  • Renee Rosnes Piano
  • Anat Cohen Brazilian Music
  • Victor Wooten Singer
  • Custódio Castelo Compositor, Composer
  • Makaya McCraven Record Producer
  • Sombrinha Singer-Songwriter
  • Donnchadh Gough Uilleann Pipes
  • John Boutté Blues
  • Mulatu Astatke Vibraphone

 'mātriks / "source" / from "mater", Latin for "mother"
We're a real mother for ya!

 

Copyright ©2022  -  Privacy  -  Terms of Service  -  Contact  - 

Open to members of the worldwide creative economy.

You'll use your email address to log in.

Passwords must be at least 6 characters in length.

Enter your password again for confirmation.

This will be the end of your profile link, for example:
http://www.matrixonline.net/profile/yourname

Please type the characters you see in the image. May take several tries. Sorry!!!

 

Matrix Sign In

Please enter your details below. If are a member of the global creative economy and don't have a page yet, please sign up first.

 
 
 
Forgot Password?
Share