Douglas Kahn

Douglas Kahn is widely recognized as an authority on experimental music and a founder of the emerging field of sound studies. Kahn is a Professor of Media and Innovation at the National Institute of Experimental Arts (NIEA), University of New South Wales, Sydney. He is a historian and theorist of the media arts and experimental music with concentrations in the study of sound, electromagnetism, and natural media. Kahn is the author of Earth Sound Earth Signal: Energies and Earth Magnitude in the Arts (University of California Press, 2013) and Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts (MIT Press, 1999).