Brian Kane

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...See more

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. See less