Caio Costa Campos is a composer, improviser and researcher from Belo Horizonte, Brasil. Currently based in Beijing. He is a first year PKU PhD student in History and Theory of Art, with Masters in Music Composition from UT Austin and in Music - Analytical and Creative Processes from UFMG. His creative and research projects are directed towards the notions of performance composition and music as performance, engaging in a practice that does not know a priori what music is, differing radically from representational notions of music. His works have been recurrently presented in the United States, Brasil and China, with his facePiece been awarded GO!, Cohen New Works and GOAT YOUNG剧场 grants.