Flo Menezes' lecture at the VI Jornadas de Músicas Mistas da UFRJ, Rio de Janeiro (sharing the space with the composer Hans Tutschku of Harvard University): Multiplicative levels of instrumental writing in mixed electroacoustic music, on April 28, 2021 (in English).
Composição e Verbalidade: o Verbo como gênero musical – Sobre a invenção das Formas-Pronúncia, on October 21, 2020 (in Portuguese).
Flo Menezes' lecture at PUC-SP: Brasil 1922: A semana de Arte Moderna e seus desdobramentos, on April 7, 2021 (in Portuguese). Flo Menezes online with other composers (José Miguel Candela, Chile; Raúl Minsburg, Argentine; Rodolfo Acosta & Martín Pineda, Colombia), at the Festival "Spectra 2020 – Festival Internacional de Música, Experimentación y Tecnología", Bogotá, Colombia, on November 3, 2020 (in Spanish).
Flo Menezes' interviewd at TV Causa Operária: A música maximalista de Flo Menezes - Uzwela, conversa sobre cultura, Flo Menezes' lecture at the research group GEPPEVOZIA of the Unesp (State University of São Paulo), titled:"Composição e Verbalidade: o Verbo como gênero musical" 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: 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: Flo Menezes interviewed by the harpist Paola Baron at the Studio PANaroma on 26 March, 2018 (in Portuguese). The same video through the FAPESP link at Youtube: 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. 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: Individual Lectures on each one of the 7 Operas: 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) A video making-of about the DVD "Boulez+" for the Selo SESC, in which Flo Menezes is interviewed; 2015 (in Portuguese) (72,7 MB) 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. 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: 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) 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: 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) 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) 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) 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)
on October 27, 2020 (in Portuguese).
"...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).
Ritos de Perpassagem - Making of from the world première
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rldwjnQ1nRQ&t=24s
(271,7 MB)
A video with this lecture (153,1 MB)
Dialogue (in Portuguese) between Flo Menezes and the philosopher Vladimir Safatle at the Paço das Artes (USP) on May 15, 2013:
Audio of the full dialogue (the initial voice is from Flo Menezes)
(54,7 MB)
Video (fragment of last part) of the dialogue
(167,1 MB)
Video of the important Brazilian philosopher Vladimir Safatle affirming (in Portuguese) in the television interview "Provocações" from TV Cultura of São Paulo that Flo Menezes is the international reference for composition in Brazil (21,1 MB)
Part 2 (241,6 MB)
Lecture (in Portuguese) on Binary Oppositions in the musical composition during the "II Encontro Paranaense de Composição Musical", inside the "32. Festival de Música de Londrina", Paraná, Brazil, in July 2012:
A movie with an excerpt of his talk (89,3 MB)
Download this a Toast Totanium file and burn a DVD to watch in your DVD-player
(4,39 GB)
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 historical document: the public analysis that Flo Menezes made of the Konzert Op 24 by Anton Webern at the age of 21, on April 13, 1984, during the "II Semana da Composição" at the Anfiteatro da USP, University of São Paulo.
On this occasion, Flo Menezes conducted the first Brazilian performance of this masterpiece of Webern
(listen to this performance under >musical performances) (in Portuguese, 24.3 MB)