A Brave New Musical World!
For Immediate Release:
sparrowroberts@gmail.com
Our Mission: To make the unknown genius in the shack in Brazil as easy to find as Lady Gaga.
How? As everybody knows, there are two (2) mega-networks out there now with musicians floating around on them, Facebook and Myspace Music...but neither of these giants directly addresses a fundamental question in terms of music on their sites: How does one know where to go?
Answer: Follow the directions pointed out by people you deem worth listening to. This is the basis of a quietly revolutionary project called The MusiCodex.

Genius (right) in a shack in Brazil, with a fan (me).
It works like this...
A codex is a book (in Latin), and in the MusiCodex people have pages. And as in a book one may turn a page, in the MusiCodex one may decide what pages his/her/their own page will turn to. The MusiCodex is vectored! It's directioned by its participants!
Voilà! Open sesame! A democracy of musical discovery! A fast-break around the slow-moving corporate Kremlin!
For example, I'm on your page and I think you are cool. I look to see who your page opens to (can be as many other pages as you like). Maybe that's how I found you in the first place, arriving from somebody else's page. And on and on, and on.
Now try following Facebook or Myspace Music friends one after another, or Twitter followers... See? Chaos! A subtle paradigm shift in the perspective of the world's oldest means of idea propagation, word-of-mouth, offers boggling opportunities which haven't, till now, been explored.
The codex's motto is "Music in our time and the people who live it." This means that everybody to whom music is important --the people who make it, the people who work with it, the people who just listen to it -- all are likewise welcome to be a part of it, and have their say.
Please note that codex pages come in two flavors, independent and (preponderantly at this early stage) article/biographic. People who sign up are independent. Article/biographics are written by the MusiCodex (about people/groups which we for whatever reason find compelling), and are linked from by (!) the MusiCodex. People/groups are welcome/encouraged to take over their biographics and do as they wish with them!
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