Brian Kane is Associate Professor of Music at Yale University and works at the intersection of music, philosophy, and media. He has been a leading figure in the interdisciplinary field of sound studies since the publication of his first book Sound Unseen: Acousmatic Sound in Theory and Practice (2014). He has written expansively on jazz, electronic and avant-garde music, sound media, composer and musicologist Pierre Schaeffer, guitarist Les Paul, and civil rights activist and broadcaster Robert F. Williams.