Linguistic influences in Latin America – Flo Menezes and the studio PANaroma in São Paulo

In contemporary music history, electroacoustic music plays a major role. This is not just because of the new methods and specific selection of material in electroacoustic music, but also due to an international exchange, which has taken place. Especially the perspective of electroacoustic music in Latin America demonstrates, how crucial interactions have been for the manifestation of this genre. One example of such interplays is Brazilian composer, musicologist and theoretician Flo Menezes, who traveled from 1986 until 1997 to Europe and experienced a huge scholarship of linguistic research, which he later took back to Latin America and as a consequence, this remained as a lasting effect in his compositions. This linguistic influence shall be examined now in detail with the intention one the one hand to see, how this experienced scholarship exactly looked like and on the other hand to demonstrate, to what extent this can be traced back in Menezes‘ compositions.