Paulo Dantas (Rio de Janeiro, 1981) is a composer, improviser and participant of music groups nulltraces, Vaso, Butai Karakuri and Schlag!. He also teaches musical analysis and experimental music at UNIRIO (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State). His first solo album, Cidade Arquipélago, was released recently by Seminal Records.  During his residency at EMS he plans to finish two new releases, make critical listenings / selection from raw field recordings captured during 2015 and record new material in Stockholm.