[Studio PANaroma at Unesp (Brazil)] Flo Menezes' NeutrinOpera

[Flo Menezes]

Ritos de Perpassagem

(English: Rites of Throughpassage; German: Durchgangsriten; French: Rites d’Outrepassage; Italian: Riti di Perpassaggi) 

NeutrinOpera in 2 Trans-Acts

The rites of passage, margin rituals by which humans ritualize stages and fundamental situations of their lives, are the background of this Opera on Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism. The beginning of Pythagoreanism and what is considered its end (Johannes Kepler) intersect in temporalities and parallel events interspersed by characters who embody their own speech in their voices but also the speech of others (Pascal in the voice of Pythagoras, Wolfgang Pauli in Kepler's voice, etc.).

In echo to the transmigration of souls, Pythagorean theory, the characters themselves transmigrate to distinct bodies and assume disparate voices, sometimes even of another sex, and sometimes even in simultaneity. And in the midst of this trans-passing of characters and voices, we still have sound-characters: the “Neutrino sounds” and the “Universe sounds”, which never again reappear in the same way; the first, associated with micro particles, the nervous system, stress, neurosis, tinnitus, oppression, drama; the second, with the macro- Universe, the heartbeat and the blood circulation, the appeased cosmic contemplation, the reflective thought, the humanism, the pleasure. It even sends us to the episode of John Cage when he enters an anechoic chamber, where all sound should be absent, to hear inside himself a very high pitched sound and a very low one... And there was not, even there, any silence.

Neutrinos, in turn, are as relevant a focus here as the characters and rites of passage: they are intriguing tiny particles, discovered at the end of the first half of the twentieth century by Wolfgang Pauli, traveling almost at the speed of Light and in a straight line, crossing all bodies, and, because they do not have an electric charge, they go through everything without almost interacting with anything.

Pythagoras created the word Philosophy, invented and defended Vegetarianism, preached listening to the Harmony of Spheres and laid the foundations of mathematics and astronomy. He founded in Crotona a secret society (in which – made history – women were already accepted) in which everyone shared everything, including their goods: the first “communist” society that has been known in history. Therefore, he is seen metaphorically in Ritos de Perpassagem as a “Neutrino” in the history of humanity, spanning music, science, religion, ethics, philosophy, mysticism, mathematics, astronomy, politics... A “Neutrino”, however, without the neutrality that typifies this particle. By the vastness of his echoes, his influence, veiled or explicit, is, in my view, greater than that of Christ.

In the midst of this multi-faceted, spiraled and interwoven contexture of references and intertextualities, supported by a mosaic of texts in nine languages (Portuguese, Latin, Italian, Spanish, French, English, German, Greek and Russian) ranging, among others, from Anaxagoras to Roland Barthes, from Pythagoras, Plato and Architas to Mayakovsky, Fernando Pessoa and Augusto de Campos, the figure of Karl Marx emerges (in the 200 years of his birth in 2018), pronouncing on how he sees Man.

In parallel, a large screen suspended in the border of stage makes the Pythagorean veil of the beginning of the Opera gradually transmute into the web of Scripture, and the musical concert itself is celebrated as a great – and perhaps as the most abstract and radical – through-passing ritual.

Flo Menezes 




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de Música Eletroacústica da Unesp
Diretor Artístico: Flo Menezes
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Instituto de Artes da UNESP
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Várzea da Barra Funda
01140-070 – São Paulo – SP
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