Political debate in honor of Leon Trotsky on the 80th anniversary of his death, in Live organized by Feria del Libro de Argentina. Debate with exponents of international Trotskyism: Flo Menezes (Brazil – Brazilian representative of Trotskyism), Jorge Altamira (Argentina) and David Karvala (Catalonia), on August 20, 2020 (in Spanish).

Flo Menezes' conversation with Vladimir Safatle:
"...de passagem...e perpassagens…"
Flo Menezes e Vladimir Safatle em diálogo
about the NeutrinOpera by Flo Menezes, Ritos de Perpassagem,
on 15 August, 2019, at the Instituto de Artes of Unesp, in São Paulo (in Portuguese).

Flo Menezes in conversation with Paulo Zuben about his Opera Ritos de Perpassagem, on 8 August, 2019, at the Theatro São Pedro in São Paulo (in Portuguese):

Full conversation clicking here.

Teasers:

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 01 – A encomenda

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 02 – O tema

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 03 – A busca do novo

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 04 – Em defesa do complexo

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 05 – Os personagens da ópera

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 06 – O grande barato da vida

Ritos de Perpassagem – teaser 07 – A vida como rito de perpassagem

and:
Ritos de Perpassagem - Making of from the world première

Flo Menezes' lecture on his Opera Ritos de Perpassagem for the musicians of the ORTHESP, on 26 July, 2019, at the EMESP in São Paulo (in Portuguese).

Flo Menezes interviewd at the Forum do Campo Lacaniano in São Paulo in the event "Adventos do Real: intervenções de arte e psicanálise", on 7 May, 2018, in São Paulo (in Portuguese).

Flo Menezes analysing his piece ...donde solo las plantas suenan... for harp and electronics, from 2015, during its world première on June 17, 2018, in São Paulo (in Portuguese).

Flo Menezes interviewed by the harpist Paola Baron at the Studio PANaroma on 26 March, 2018 (in Portuguese).

Video-teaser made by the FAPESP about the dialog between Flo Menezes and the Physycist Nathan Berkovits on March 2nd, 2018, at the IMS (Instituto Moreira Salles) in São Paulo about the relationship between Music and Physics.

The same video through the FAPESP link at Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldwjnQ1nRQ&t=24s

Video-teaser with a talk from Flo Menezes about his work laçoentrelaço during the CD recording of the work by the OJE (Orquestra Jovem do Estado de São Paulo) in 2017.

Flo Menezes' lecture (in French) "Processus ou élaboration secondaire en composition électroacoustique" given at the "Colloque sur l'Espace Multiphonique dans la Musique Électroacoustique" in Brussels, Belgium, on April 26th, 2017.
(271,7 MB)

The same lecture on internet.

Special course (in Portuguese) about Karlheinz Stockhausen and his Opera LICHT in 7 lectures, from 6 to 12 February, 2017, at the Sala do Conservatório of the Escola Municipal de São Paulo.

Ca. 10 hours Lectures given by Flo Menezes about the Opera Cycle LICHT and other works by Stockhausen on the occasion of the 10 years of his death in 2017.

Teaser:

Video-teaser about the special one-week course given by Flo Menezes about the work LICHT by Karlheinz Stockhausen, titled "exCURSO LICHT – LUZes sobre Stockhausen", from 6 to 12 February, 2017, at the Praça das Artes in São Paulo.

Individual Lectures on each one of the 7 Operas:

Lecture 1: 1h40m

Lecture 2: 1h05m

Lecture 3: 1h24m

Lecture 4: 1h38m

Lecture 5: 1h41m

Lecture 6: 1h31m

Lecture 7: 1h32m

Flo Menezes talks in French to the audience in Strasbourg, France, in the occasion of the world première of his piece S(c)enario) with Les Percussions de Strasbourg, on November 23rd, 2016 (10,1 MB)

Watch to the video of an interview (in Portuguese) about musical form and other related subjects, lasting 1 hour and 30 minutes, given to Jorge Santos at the Studio PANaroma in São Paulo on June 28th, 2016.

Watch to the video of the one-hour long lecture (in Portuguese) about Giacomo Puccini on April 23th, 2016, at the Theatro Municipal de São Paulo.

Watch to the video with the lecture by Flo Menezes on November 6th, 2015, during the Forum-IRCAM in São Paulo, about his piece TransScriptio and about his software MPSP for sound spatialization.

A video making-of about the DVD "Boulez+" for the Selo SESC, in which Flo Menezes is interviewed; 2015 (in Portuguese) (72,7 MB)

Flo Menezes speaks in 2015 (in Portuguese) about his acousmatic piece "Stream from outer space" (2001).

Watch to the video of an interview (in Spanish) with Flo Menezes produced by the CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras), Morelia, Mexico, in July 2015.

Video of a Composition Class (in Spanish) given by Flo Menezes at the CMMAS (Centro Mexicano para la Música y las Artes Sonoras), Morelia, Mexico, in July 2015.

Video of a Dialog with Flo Menezes and Brazilian Composers and Musicologists (in Portuguese) in Belo Horizonte in September 2014.

A video of the Composition Class which was given by Flo Menezes about his Contrafacta at the 45. Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão in July 2014 (in Portuguese) (302,9 MB)

An institutional video of the 45. Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão in July 2014 (interview of Flo Menezes and Sérgio Kafejian, in Portuguese) about his piece Contrafacta (5 MB)

A video of a masterclass at the University of São Paulo (USP, in Portuguese) in 14 April, 2014, about his piece Gefäß des Geistes for piano (32,9 MB)

Video on Youtube of this masterclass.

Video-teaserfro 2014 with Flo Menezes (in Portuguese with English subtitles) about his work Contrafacta (2013) during the recording in CD of this piece.

Lecture (in French) on the Studio PANaroma and its researches during the Festival "Espace du Son" organized by Musiques&Recherches in Brussels, Belgium, in November 2013:
A video with this lecture (153,1 MB)

Dialogue (in Portuguese) between Flo Menezes, the philosopher Vladimir Safatle and the Literature specialist Manuel da Costa Pinto in São Paulo in June 2013, on occasion of the new book issue "Treatise on (Re)composition" ("Matemática dos Afetos") by Flo Menezes by the USP Press (Edusp).

Video (fragment of last part) of the dialogue (167,1 MB)

Video internet interview (in two parts: 24' + 28'30") given in Portuguese by Flo Menezes to Leandro Gardini on December 3, 2012, to the UOL-TV (http://mais.uol.com.br/view/14205132) about music, composition, poetics of musical composition, aesthetics etc. Title: "Flo Menezes em defesa da música radical":

Part 1 (204,1 MB)
Part 2 (241,6 MB)

Video with the public conversation (in German) between Flo Menezes and Christoph Keller just before the world première of the piano piece Gefäss des Geistes on November 9, 2012, at theTonhalle (kleiner Saal) in Zurich, Zwitzerland:

Watch the video of this conversation.

Interview (50'40") given in Portuguese by Flo Menezes to George Alveskog on October 2, 2012, about Stockhausen and about Motus in fine velocior (34,8 MB)

Interview (44'18") given in Portuguese by Flo Menezes to Rafael Filippini on September 20, 2012, about sound, sonoplastic effects, the relationship between music and cinema, the elements of musical composition etc. (30,4 MB)

Video in which the great Brazilian composer Gilberto Mendes, former Professor of Flo Menezes, on the occasion of his 90. birthday in 2012, speaks (in Portuguese) about the concrete poetry and affirms inbetween that Flo Menezes is the most important Brazilian composer in the fields of electronic music (17,6 MB)

The musical journalist Nelson Kunze speaks (in Portuguese) to his colleagues, on September 12, 2012, about Flo Menezes and his work and importance on the context of new music in Brazil (32,8 MB)

Internet interview (in Portuguese, 5') with Flo Menezes and Branca de Oliveira for the SESC website about his work Colores, part of his DVD de spectris sonorum (16,3 MB)

A short statement by Flo Menezes defining himself on the eve of his 50th birthday while working out, at the beginning of 2012.

A 1 hour long conversation (in Portuguese) on June 11, 2011, with his composition student Rodolfo Valente about the variation "Sur la Dynamique" of the piano piece "Apostrophe et 6 Réflexions" by Henri Pousseur (23,9 MB)

DVD-Video (circa 1 hour) with his analytical lecture (in Portuguese) on his work Retrato Falado das Paixões, given one day after his Aula Magna at the Unesp in São Paulo, thus on May 18, 2011:

Download this a Toast Totanium file and burn a DVD to watch in your DVD-player (4,39 GB)

Video (circa 1 hour) with his Aula Magna on Spatiality in Music when he became "Professor Titular" at the Unesp in São Paulo on May 17, 2011 (339,2 MB)

Just the audiofile (2h43m) of the public discussion with the jury for the obtention of the degree of "Professor Titular", with the participation of Professors Marisa Rezende, Carole Gubernikoff, Amilcar Zani, Rodrigo Duarte and John Boudler (186,5 MB)

A short TV interview given on May 5, 2011, in Uberlândia (MG, Brazil) in which Flo Menezes explains, under other things, the origin of the Joycean word "panaroma", used as the name of the Studio founded by him at the Unesp (11,2 MB)

More than 1 hour interview (in Portuguese) on December 8, 2010, to Alexandre Charro for his Review +SOMA about his aesthetic approach to music and life (see reduced publication under >books and articles) (73,3 MB)

An 1 hour 27 minutes long interview (in Portuguese) on November 30, 2010, to Raquel Setz about his aesthetic concepts in music (55,2 MB)

Watch to the video of an interview (in Portuguese) in which Flo Menezes talks about "Kontra-Punkte" by Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Video (circa 39') with the interview given (in Portuguese) by Flo Menezes about Luciano Berio and his Sequenze to Raimo Benedetti in August 2010 (166,7 MB)

Watch to this video at Youtube.

"Ressonâncias" – about 1 hour interview (in Portuguese) to Maurício Ayer about Chopin, Schumann, Mahler, Brahms etc. given in June 2010 (see reduced publication under >books and articles) (73,8 MB)

TV interview (in English) in London on the occasion of the performance by members of the London Sinfonietta, in October 2009, of his work Parcours de l'Entité (68,2 MB)

Short video excerpt of the long lecture Flo Menezes gave (in English) about his works at CCRMA at the Stanford University (USA) on October 24, 2007 (in the presence of John Chowning, who came especially from San Francisco to see Flo Menezes' lecture; Chowning can be seen among the audience) (34 MB)

Watch to the video documentary "'labORAtorio' in decomposition" by Ana Guimarães from 2006, in which Flo Menezes makes an analytical approach (in Portuguese with English subtitles) of his piece labORAtorio.

Watch to the video documentary "Plans of 'Pulsares'" by Ana Guimarães from 2006, in which Flo Menezes makes an analytical approach (in Portuguese with English subtitles) of his piece Pulsares.

Flo Menezes interviewed by Prof. Paulo Ramos Machado in 1997 at the first building of the Studio PANaroma (221,5 MB)

A historical, rare audio document: Flo Menezes interviewing Luciano Berio (in French) at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Austria, on August 22th, 1989, when he was the only student of Berio during that Festival! In this interview, Berio revealed some aspects of his masterpiece Visage for the first time, which influenced Flo Menezes' awarded analysis of this piece as main section of his PhD in Liège under the direction of Henri Pousseur (concluded in the beginning of 1992) (53,3 MB)

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