Encontros (Meetings) is the largest and most prestigious book collection of interviews with Brazilian artists and thinkers. With more than 50 published titles, Encontros provides a broad panorama of Brazil's cultural and intellectual wealth. Gilberto Mendes is one of the most important composers and a central figure in stimulating the renewal and circulation of Brazilian contemporary music. In 1963, together with Rogério Duprat, Damiano Cozzella, Julio Medaglia, and Willy Corrêa de Oliveira, he signed the New Music Manifesto, an important document for the construction of new musical languages, and was the creator of the New Music Festival, which has been held for over 50 years and is considered the most important contemporary music meeting in Brazil. This volume of the Encontros Collection takes a comprehensive look ideas and the trajectory of this great artist.