Mack Hagood is a Professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University Ohio. He is the author of the book HUSH: MEDIA AND SONIC SELF CONTROL and the host of PHANTOM POWER, a podcast situated at the intersection of sound, politics, and culture.

Gavin Steingo is a professor in the department of music at Princeton University. He is the author of two books, Kwaito's Promise: Music and the Aesthetics of Freedom in South Africa, and Interspecies Communication: Sound and Music Beyond Humanity. He also co-edited the seminal volume Remapping Sound Studies, and he co-directs the Animal Song Collective.

Jacob Smith is a professor in the department of radio/television/film at Northwestern University, where he co-founded the MA program in Sound Arts and Industries. He is the author of many books, including Vocal Tracks: Performance and Sound Media; Spoken Word: Postwar American Phonograph Cultures; and Eco-Sonic Media. He is also the author of two experimental audiobooks: ESC: Sonic Adventure in the Anthropocene, and Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves.

Susan Rogers is Professor and Director of the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory at Berklee School of Music. She is the author of This Is What It Sounds Like: What the Music You Love Says About You (WW Norton, 2022).

Josh McDermott is Professor in the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences at MIT, where he directs the Laboratory for Computational Audition.