Rui Eduardo Paes Music critic, writer and journalist contact: rep.no.sapo.pt

Author of five books about experimental and improvised musics, always in relation with other arts and with philosophical, sociological and anthropological subjects, Rui Eduardo Paes writes for several European publications, namely JL – Jornal de Letras (Portugal), Jazz.pt (Portugal), Oro Molido (Spain), Revue & Corrigée (France) and Mex Text (Germany, on-line), maintaining also a personal website with interviews, articles and record reviews in Portuguese, English and French.

He was one of the founders of the Ernesto de Sousa Fellowship and is one of the members of its juri, in representation of the Luso-American Foundation for the Development, and was one of the comissaries in the Lisbon Apreciation Comission for the 2005-2008 Supports of the Art Institut – Portuguese Ministery of Culture.

He is one of the directors of Granular, a cultural association that has as main finality the promotion of experimentalism in sound and audiovisual arts in Portugal, and he is the consultant of the store, distributor and discographic label AnAnAnA.