VOXTROPOLIS ®

It’s a good day to change the world.

“What if we were to take a place for musicians like MySpace and a place for bloggers like Xanga and put them together?”

This made sense to Niza who along with husband Alex cofounded Voxtropolis. She thought it would be a great way to get her music out to a wider public. Moreover, many of her friends were independant musicians who were always looking for ways to get their music “out there”.

On the blogging side of things, Alex had been introduced to the blogosphere by his son, Half Moon Sky and his daughter, Ansus Berkana. Soon after launching his first blog, Alex’s site became a lightning rod for comments, conversation and, yes, community.

This led to the next series of questions:

• What if we created a kind of city? A Cyber City? It would need a common area, a Culture Pub or a Cafe, where residents could be “seen” hanging out and chatting.
• What if this blogging community loved connecting, friend making, travel, independant music, the rawness of the unknown artist?
• What if artists (musician, poet, filmaker, etc) could “book gigs” in our Culture Pub and we could play their music or show their videos and short films?
• What if our city was created on the idea that we could make the world a better place?
• What if the Cyber gigs in our Cyber Cafe led to “live” gigs in the concrete world and vice versa?
• Yes, What if our Cyber Culture Pub inspired hundreds to create local Voxtropolis Culture Pubs that would invite local musicians and poets to perform their music or read their rhymes?
• What would happen if we invited people to help us “build a village”? Or paint an Orphanage? Or dig a well?
• What would happen if we invited people to engage with the environmental and social issues of our time?

Those are the kinds of questions Voxtropolis founders, Niza and Manus, massaged over and over in their conversations together. Their own passion for Music, blogging, and making the world a better place became an obsession. It soon became apparent, as they took steps to make an idea a reality, that Voxtropolis was a big idea. No, Voxtropolis was more than an idea. It was a civilization.

And, in fact, Voxtropolis has become a unique civilization that is being created by the moment-by-moment contributions of people just like you –and the millions that are to come. Yes, the City is still under construction. But because of the dynamic nature and creativity of the typical Voxtropolitan, we can say about Voxtropolis (aka, the City of Voices) what can be said of any great city: this City has a life and a voice of it’s own. Listen carefully. You may find yourself hearing the voices.

Welcome to the City of Voices.
You belong here.
Enjoy.

Niza and Manus