Pedro Félix is the coordinator of the Installing Team of the National Sound Archive, a
structure created by the Portuguese Government and directly supervised by the Minister of
Culture and the Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education.
He is a member of the research centres Instituto de Etnomusicologia and Institute of
Contemporary History, and collaborated with the Fado Museum.
He was part of the team responsible for the preparation of the Fado proposal to UNESCO
Intangible Cultural Heritage. Afterwards, he coordinated the program of digitization of the
phonographic collection of the Fado Museum.
He has participated in the organization of several public and private sound archives and
phonographic collections. He has done work of audio recording, digitizing and restoring
audio from historical carriers. His digitization and restoration of sound documents have
been published in several critical reissues of historical recordings.
He conceived and coordinated the European project HeritaMus, a digital tool for
collaborative curation of material (phonographic) and immaterial (musical knowledge and
practices) heritage.
His research topics are: sound archives, sound technology, music industries, and sound
heritage.
All his research was published in thesis, books, chapters and papers in scientific journals
(on musical production contexts and historical phonograms; processes of heritization and
treatment of sound documents on historical carriers; on musical practices in the context of
XXI century’ music industries). He was part of the coordination team of the Encyclopedia
of Music in Portugal in the 20th century for which he wrote dozens of entries.
He was a teacher at Faculty of Social and Human Sciences – UNL in the field of
Ethnographic methods, at the Musicology department; designed and co-coordinated the
Post-graduation on Popular Music Studies and a seminar on Music in Portugal in the XXth
century.
He was the founder of Matéria do Som, a scientific association for the study and
preservation of sound heritage in Portugal.
He is an active member at IASA where he currently serves as chair of Ambassadors
Committee and vice-chair of Discography Committee.