<p><strong>Jacob Smith</strong> is Professor in the Department of Radio-Television-Film and co-founder of the MA in Sound Arts and Industries at Northwestern University. He has written multiple books, audiobooks, and video essays, including <em>Lightning Birds: An Aeroecology of the Airwaves</em> (2021) and <em>Bateson’s Alphabet: The ABCs of Gregory Bateson’s Ecology of Mind</em> (2024). His most recent book, <em>Bridge to an Unseen Shore: New Age Music as Visionary Art</em>, will be published this October by University of California Press.</p>