Broadcasts


Radio broadcasting (in Flemish) in December 29, 2023, at Radio Centraal Antwerpen, Belgium, by Joris De Laet, with Todos os cantos, MetaScriptio, Hymnus – il cielo andrà verso il fondo and Perpetui decoris structura (288,3 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Flemish) in December 27, 2023, at Radio Centraal Antwerpen, Belgium, by Joris De Laet, with Sinfonia and Harmonia das Esferas (318,2 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Flemish) in May 26, 2023, at Radio Centraal Antwerpen, Belgium, by Joris De Laet, with Perpetui decoris structura, TransFormantes VII and A dialética da praia (287,4 MB)


2 hours long radio broadcasting (in French) in January 2019 (recorded in 2018), interviewing teh composer and edited by Yérri-Gaspar Hummel at Arrêt Média, Strasbourg, France, about the Flo Menezes and his music, with following works:

Todos os Cantos
PAN
La Novità del Suono
TransFormantes II
Contrafacta

Link to listen to this broadcast at the internet, clicking here.

Listen to this broadcast, concerning the work of Flo Menezes and with his talk in French (295 MB)

Listen to the special passage in which Flo Menezes proclames against capitalism (6,4 MB)


Broadcast at the German radio Deutschlandfunk Kultur/Neue Musik (in German) on November 13th to 14th, 2017, titled "Sprachmelodien - Komponieren entlang des gesprochenen Worts", produced by Hubert Steins, with works by Jonathan Harvey, Trevor Wishart, Carola Bauckholt, Stephan Winkler, Peter Ablinger, Klarenz Barlow and Flo Menezes (PAN: Laceramento della Parola (Omaggio a Trotskji)).

Listen to the last part of the broadcast, concerning the work of Flo Menezes and with his talk in German (25,3 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Flemish) in December 29, 2017, at Radio Centraal Antwerpen, Belgium, by Joris De Laet, with Sinfonia, and Harmonia das Esferas (276,5 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Spanish) in October 2016, edited by Federico Demmer at Radio Colombia, about the Flo Menezes, with his work Grand écart (42,3 MB)


Flo Menezes speaks in Portuguese about his acousmatic piece Fond d'erreurs for the Poscast of Radio Unesp on September 14, 2016 (3,5 MB)


A 28 minutes long broadcast in the Czech Republic (in Czech) about Flo Menezes on May 20th, 2016, with excerpts of Contrafacta and a full performance of TransScriptio (26,3 MB)


A short radio interview (in Portuguese) on January 7th, 2016, on the occasion of the death of Pierre Boulez for the Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo (9,8 MB)


A short radio interview (in Portuguese) on January 7th, 2016, on the occasion of the death of Pierre Boulez for the Podcast Unesp (3,3 MB)


Two one-hour-long broadcasts (in Portuguese) with Flo Menezes in November, 2015, produced at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo by Maestro Jamil Maluf and titled "Intérpretes":

Part 1, on November 14th, 2015; Flo Menezes speaks about Schönberg, Josquin Desprez, Brahms, Mahler, and himself (110 MB)
Part 2, on November 21th, 2015; Flo Menezes plays Schönberg, conducts Webern, and speaks also about Bartók, Berio, and about his labORAtorio (110,4 MB)


Almost 1 hour long broadcast (in German) on November 4th, 2015, at the German radio WDR-3, within the radio series "Studio Elektronische Musik", produced by Hubert Steins, about Flo Menezes, his music and some of his musical choices. In the broadcast, one listens only to Flo Menezes' voice (134 MB)


A short radio interview (in Portuguese) on November 3rd, 2015, at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo about the Forum-IRCAM Brazil 2015 (18,6 MB)


Long radio broadcasts (in Spanish) on September 8 (with retransmission on September 12 - Part 1) and on September 15 (with retransmission on September 19 - Part 2), 2015, within the radio series "Universo Estético" from Radio y Televisión de Nuevo León, Mexico, about Flo Menezes and his music, interviewing the composer:

Part 1 (53,7 MB)
Part 2 (49,5 MB)
Complete for podcast (98,4)


Excerpt of the radio broadcasts (in Spanish) listed above, where Flo Menezes is pointed out as one of the most important composers of our time:
Excerpt (3,2 MB)


Radio interview (in Portuguese) for the radio Cultura FM of São Paulo about the X Bimesp 2014, given in October 2014 (7 MB)

Radio broadcasting (in Flemish) in December 2013 at Radio Centraal Antwerpen, Belgium, by Joris De Laet, with Sinfonias and Harmonia das Esferas (124,9 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Portuguese) on August 5, 2013, in the series "Ideias Musicais" by the Conductor Abel Rocha at Rádio Cultura FM, deditaced to Flo Menezes, interviewing him about his influences (108,6 MB)


A short radio interview (in Portuguese) given on June 5, 2013, at Rádio Cultura FM to Alexandre Machado about his book Matemática dos Afetos (12,9 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


A short radio interview (in Portuguese) given on May 28, 2013, at Rádio Cultura FM about the importance of and his view on Le Sacre du Printemps by Stravinsky (7,6 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Portuguese) on May 28, 2013, in the series "Entrelinhas" by Manuel da Costa Pinto at Rádio Cultura FM, deditaced to Flo Menezes, interviewing him about the relationships between music and verbality (111 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in German) in November 2012 at Schweizer Radio DRS-2, Zurich, with music by Gerhard, Kessler and La Novità del Suono by Flo Menezes at Festival Éclat in Stuttgart, performed by the Collegium Musicum Zürich (and at the end of the broadcast with an excerpt of Harmonia das Esferas) (204,7 MB)


Radio broadcasting-portrait on Flo Menezes (in German) in November 2012, in the series "Musik unserer Zeit" at Schweizer Radio DRS-2, Zurich, with a long interview given to Thomas Adank (61,1 MB)


Radio broadcasting series (in Portuguese) by Flo Menezes at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo, between September and November 2012, with 13 broadcasts of the series "Ideias Musicais" about the Fundamentals of Musical Composition.

Title: "A Espiral das Vanguardas" ("The Spiral of the Avant-gardes").

Along the 13 broadcasts, Flo Menezes has focused the main aspects of modernity related both to contemporary music and music of ancient times, demonstrating the avant-garde aspects of musical thought throughout the history:

Broadcast 1: September 4, 2012 (on Focuses and Out of Focuses) (105,7 MB)
Music by the Middle Ages, Monteverdi, Berio.

Broadcast 2: September 11, 2012 (on Big Polyphonies) (104,2 MB)
Music by Thomas Tallis, Berio, Ockhegem, Ligeti, Bayle.

Broadcast 3: September 18, 2012 (on New Timbres/Sounds) (110,5 MB)
Music by Webern, Ferneyhough, Monteverdi, Stockhausen.

Broadcast 4: September 25, 2012 (on Musical Quotations and References) (109,9 MB)
Music by Henri Pousseur and the Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles (Stravinsky au Futur).

Broadcast 5: October 2, 2012 (on Music as Mathematics of Affections) (101,7 MB)
Music by Monteverdi, Mozart, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 6: October 9, 2012 (on Pitch Polarizations) (111,8 MB)
Music by Schönberg, the Middle Ages, Liszt, Berio, Chopin, Ravel, Webern, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 7: October 16, 2012 (on the Poetics of Silence) (101,8 MB)
Music by Rameau, Cage, the Middle Ages, Webern, Haydn, Pousseur, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 8: October 23, 2012 (on Directionalities) (104,8 MB)
Music by Bach, Beethoven, Wagner, Messiaen, Stockhausen, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 9: October 30, 2012 (on Simultaneities) (111,9 MB)
Music by the Middle Ages, Trobadours, Monteverdi, Mahler, Berio, Ives, Cage, and Beethoven and Brahms with distinct interpretations sounding simultaneously.

Broadcast 10: November 6, 2012 (on Temporal Dissonances) (110,1 MB)
Music by Dunstable, Bach, Ives, Stravinsky, Berio, No Theater, Stockhausen, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 11: November 13, 2012 (on Harmonicity and Inharmonicity) (111,4 MB)
Music by Beethoven, Mahler, Stockhausen, Murail, Harvey, Manoury, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 12: November 20, 2012 (on Multiple Spaces) (117,6 MB)
Music by Berg, Stockhausen, Gabrieli, Gobeil, Varèse, Flo Menezes.

Broadcast 13: November 27, 2012 (on Harmonic Entities) (108,4 MB)
Music by Liszt, Wagner, Scriabin, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Boulez, Berio, Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, Flo Menezes.


Radio interview (11'19") given in Portuguese by Flo Menezes to Alexandre Machado for his brodcast "Começando o Dia" at the Rádio Cultura FM in São Paulo on August 2, 2012, about his musical ideas and experiences (20,7 MB)


Radio broadcasting series (in Portuguese) in 2012, edited by Rodrigo Cicchelli Velloso at Rádio MEC FM, Brazil, in homage to the 50th anniversary of Flo Menezes, with interviews with the composer on his electroacoustic music:

First Series of Broadcasting, dedicated to electroacoustic works composed in the 1980ties and the 1990ties:

Broadcast 1: April 5, 2012 (on PAN: Laceramento della Parola (Omaggio a Trotskji)) (14,2 MB)

Broadcast 2: April 12, 2012 (on Words in Transgress) (11,3 MB)

Broadcast 3: April 19, 2012 (on Contextures I (Hommage à Berio)) (11,9 MB)

Broadcast 4: April 26, 2012 (on Profils écartelés) (12 MB)

Broadcast 5: May 3, 2012 (on Contesture III and Parcours de l'Entité) (14,6 MB)

Broadcast 6: May 10, 2012 (on A Viagem sobre os Grãos) (10,8 MB)

Broadcast 7: May 17, 2012 (on Sinfonias) (10,7 MB)

Second Series of Broadcasting, dedicated to electroacoustic works composed in the first decade of 2000:

Broadcast 8: November 8, 2012 (on Harmonia das Esferas) (26,3 MB)

Broadcast 9: November 15, 2012 (on Colores (Phila: in praesentia)) (13,8 MB)

Broadcast 10: November 22, 2012 (on Crase) (14 MB)

Broadcast 11: November 29, 2012 (on Motus in fine velocior – in memoriam Stockhausen) (23,4 MB)

Broadcast 12: December 6, 2012 (on O Farfalhar das Folhas) (13,1 MB)


Radio interview (in Portuguese) with Flo Menezes at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo, Brazil, on May 12, 2012, about Mozart (74,3 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Spanish) on May 1st, 2012, edited by Federico Demmer at Radio Colombia, about the Brazilian music of the XXth century, with music by Santoro, Guarnieri, Nobre and, from Flo Menezes, with his work Pulsares (26,6 MB)


Radio broadcasting (in Spanish) on April 18, 2012, edited by Federico Demmer at Radio Colombia, in homage to the 50th anniversary of Flo Menezes, with a detailed text about the composer and his works Motus in fine velocior, Parcours de l'Entité and Contesture IV (12,8 MB)


Radio interview (in Portuguese) with Flo Menezes at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo, Brazil, on April 18, 2012, the day of his 50th anniversary, in which the composer talks about his conceptions and ideas and about Bach, Stravinsky, Berio, and about his work O Farfalhar das Folhas (95,1 MB)


Interview (2'35") given in German by Flo Menezes about Retrato Falado das Paixões (Phantombild der Leidenschaften) to Susanne Laurentius' broadcast at SWR2 in February 2011 (with the participation of Hans-Peter Jahn) (3,6 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Commentaries of Flo Menezes about Theodor Adorno in a series of broadcast by Lia Tomás about the German philosopher on April 2009 at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo (in Portuguese, 21,6 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Excerpt of another important broadcast at WDR3, in the series "Studios der Welt" by Hubert Steins and with commentaries by Prof. Hans Ulrich Humpert, on June 23, 2004, about the history of the Cologne Studio of Electronic Music, beginning with excerpts of Phantom-Wortquelle; Words in Transgress by Flo Menezes. The foundation of the Studio PANaroma in São Paulo is given as an example of the success of the Cologne School worldwide (in German, 23,7 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Broadcast about and with Flo Menezes in the series "Supertônica" by Arrigo Barnabé at Rádio Cultura FM of São Paulo in May 2004 (Programm 11 of this series); certainly one of the best broadcasts about Flo Menezes in Brazil (in Portuguese, 152,2 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Broadcast at Deutschlandfunk Köln titled "Profils écartelés – Der Brasilianische Komponist Flo Menezes", in the series "Redaktion Atelier neuer Musik" by Hubert Steins, on May 17, 2003, about the composer (excerpts of A Dialética da Praia, Phantom-Wortquelle; Words in Transgress, Profils écartelés, Contesture III – Tempi reali, tempo virtuale, ATLAS FOLISIPELIS, Harmonia das Esferas). Many commentaries by Flo Menezes himself (in German, 107,2 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Broadcast at DeutschlandRadio, in the series "Redaktion Werkstatt" by Hubert Steins, on January 27, 2002, about the Studio PANaroma and the work of Flo Menezes, with his music (excerpts of A Dialética da Praia) and of some of his students: Fábio Gorodski, Luciano Garcez, Celso Cintra, Ignacio de Campos, Sérgio Kafejian. With many commentaries by Flo Menezes (in German, 149,1 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Broadcast by Flo Menezes at Rádio Cultura FM in 2001, in the series "Invenção e Modernidade: o Balanço do Século" by Dante Pignatari, titled "Música Eletroacústica Norte-americana: o Fascínio Tecnológico" (in Portuguese, 137,5 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Excerpt of an extremely important broadcast at DeutschlandRadio, in the series "Redaktion Werkstatt" by Hubert Steins, on December 26, 1999, about the history of the Cologne Studio of Electronic Music, in which its Artistic Director Prof. Hans Ulrich Humpert says that he has known in his life no other composer so able to theoretically establish the foundations of his own music as Flo Menezes, with exception of Pierre Boulez. Excerpts of Profils écartelés are shown and the foundation of the Studio PANaroma in São Paulo is given as an example of the success of the Cologne School worldwide and Humpert gives a general view of the pedagogical relevance of the Cologne Studio (which has influenced so much Flo Menezes when he came back to Brazil and funded the Studio PANaroma in 1994) (in German, 22,1 MB) Traces (mp3 _3,5MB)


Broadcast of Rádio Cultura FM about the "III Semama da Composição da USP" from May 1985, interviewing Flo Menezes(23 years old) about the event and about the performed pieces Da Contradição ao Antagonismo and In Memoriam Berg-Bartók (81,9 MB)



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