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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...

 

From Harlem to Bahia



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  • Bio: As an artist, Sharita Towne’s interests lie in unpacking the inherited struggles of past burdens and in affording collective catharsis. Through collaboration, stereo-photography, printmaking, video, and community art projects, she’s worked at memorials in Germany; in the Sahrawi refugee camps in Algeria; Brazil; in gentrifying cities like Portland, Oregon and New Orleans; in schools, museums, and neighborhoods, and within her own family.

    She received a BFA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from Portland State University. She currently teaches at Pacific Northwest College of Art, works in the DIY printmaking and audiovisual collective URe:AD Press (United Re:Public of the African Diaspora), the post-colonial conceptual karaoke band Weird Allan Kaprow, and is a 2016 Art Matters grant recipient.

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    2016 - Instructor, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Media Arts, Mentor, & BFA Thesis Critique
    2015 Fulbright, English Teaching Assistant, Brazil
    2014 Screenprinting Shop Steward, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
    2014 Instructor, Portland African American Leadership Forum & SEI, “De-Gentrifying Portland”
    2014 Instructor, ART 257 Video I: Experimental Video, Portland State University
    2013 Graduate Assistant, Event and Space Coordinator, Portland State University, OR
    2013 Teaching Assistant, Printmaking, Portland State University, OR
    2013 Film and Video Instructor, Ravensbrück Memorial, Fürstenberg/Havel, Germany
    2013 Art Teacher & Interpreter, Book Arts/Newsletter, Metropolitan Family Serv., Portland, OR
    2012 Youth Organizer, Interpreter, Video Instr., Germany/Saharawi Refugee Camps in Algeria

    Selected Exhibitions and Screenings (will be updated)

    2016 (*upcoming) URe:AD TV, BRIC, NY
    2016 (*upcoming) Portland Prints, Micro screenprinting artist residencies, Portland Art Museum
    2016 Our City in Stereo, Newspace Center for Photography, Portland, OR
    2016 Our City in Stereo, residency, c3:initiative, Portland
    2016 Out of Sight, King St. Station, Seattle, WA, survey of contemporary art in the Pacific Northwest
    2016 mamuk x̣alaqɬ iliʔi, Littman Gallery, Portland, OR
    2016 Portland Lyric, Independent Publishing Resource Center, Portland, OR
    2016 AgitProp!, “Karaoking the Museum”, Brooklyn Museum, NY, NY
    2015 Karaoking Portland, by Weird Allan Kaprow, Independent Publishing Resource Center
    2015 Continents, Auto Body: Buenos Aires, Faena Arts Center
    2015 black [genus, genesis, genius], group exhibition, Multnomah County Library, Portland, OR
    2014 Continents, Auto Body, Giant Motors: Auto Body & Paint Shop, Miami, FA
    2014 Beasts of Notation, transmedia collaboration & event, Independent Publishing Resource Center
    2014 Public Apology Karaoke, by Weird Allan Kaprow, Independent Publishing Resource Center
    2014 De-Gentrifying Portland, film workshop and community screenings, Portland, OR
    2014 Now We Know, In Other Words Feminist Community Center, Portland, OR
    2014 Sahara in Stereo, Experimental Film Festival Portland, OR
    2014 Karaoking the Museum, Shine A Light, Portland Art Museum, OR
    2013 The People’s Laundromat Theatre, with Shani Peters, New York, NY
    2013 Memorybildia, Shine a Light, Portland Art Museum, OR
    2013 The Living Lab of Family Memory, Field Work, Portland OR
    2012 Sahara in Stereo, Here! Hear! Experimental Ethnographic Film, Albuquerque, NM

    Selected Awards

    2017 The Precipice FUnd (URe:AD Press)
    2017 Regional Arts and Culture Council (URe:AD Press)
    2016 Art Matters
    2016 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Project Grant, Our Family in Stereo
    2016 Regional Arts and Culture Council, Professional Development Grant, Agitprop!
    2015 Rema Hort Mann Foundation, ACE Community Engagement Grant:
    "Tradução: Intercultural Media Exchange: US & Brazil", collaborator to Shani Peters
    2015 Expanding Cultural Access, Regional Arts and Culture Council, “BCC:BrownHall”
    2015 Community Grant: Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, “Hair & Community in Black Portland”
    2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, “Karaoking Portland” with Weird Allan Kaprow
    2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, “Conscientização” with Betty Marín and Zachary Gough
    2015 Regional Arts and Culture Council, with Roger Peet, Sara Siestreem, and Gabe Flores
    2014 Precipice Award, Black Creative Collective BrownHall, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
    2014 Expanding Cultural Access, Regional Arts and Culture Council, “De-Gentrifying Portland”
    2014 Community Grant: Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, “De-Gentrifying Portland”

    Bibliography and Publications

    2016 “An Artist Sees Portland In Stereoscopic Show”, State of Wonder, Oregon Public Broadcasting
    2014 De-Gentrifying Portland, KOIN, Portland Mercury, The Skanner, KBOO Radio, and The Oregonian
    2014 Talk to the Gun, Social Practice Reference Points Book series, with Pedro Reyes
    2014 State of Wonder, June 7th 2014, Oregon Public Broadcasting, OPB, with Pedro Reyes
    2012 Now I know my…, Printed Matter LLC, NY, NY

    Education

    MFA, Contemporary Art Practices, Portland State University
    BA, Art & Interdisciplinary Studies (dbl. major) Honors, University of California Berkeley

    Languages

    English (Native language)
    Spanish (Fluent)
    Portuguese (Fluent)
    Arabic (Working knowledge)
    German (Working knowledge)

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