João Pedro Cachopo teaches Philosophy of Music at the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. He is a member of the Centre for the Study in Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, where he coordinates the Critical Theory and Communication Group. His interests, spanning the domains of musicology, philosophy, and media studies, include the impact of the digital revolution on contemporary culture, the relationship of music to other arts, and issues of performance, dramaturgy, and remediation.
He is the author of Callas e os Seus Duplos (Sistema Solar, 2023), A Torção dos Sentidos (Sistema Solar, 2020; Elefante, 2021), translated into English as The Digital Pandemic (Bloomsbury, 2022), and Verdade e Enigma: Ensaio sobre o Pensamento Estético de Adorno (Vendaval, 2013), which received the Portuguese PEN Club Award in the First Work category in 2014. He co-edited Rancière and Music (Edinburgh UP, 2020), Estética e Política entre as Artes (Edições 70, 2017), and Pensamento Crítico Contemporâneo (Edições 70, 2014). His work has been published in journals such as The Opera Quarterly, New German Critique, and Sound Stage Screen, as well as in collective volumes such as The Routledge Companion to Music and Modern Literature. He has translated into Portuguese Georges Didi-Huberman, Jacques Rancière, and Theodor W. Adorno.
Between 2017 and 2019, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Chicago. He taught as a visiting professor at Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro (2016), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (2016), and Universidade de Brasília (2022). He was a visiting researcher at Universität Potsdam (2008), Université Paris 8 (2009), Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (2010), University of Durham (2012), and Columbia University in the City of New York (2015). He was part of the Young Scientists Seminar of the Lisbon Academy of Sciences between 2017 and 2020. Since 2022, he has been a member of the Editorial Board of Sound Stage Screen.