Whitney Slaten is an ethnomusicologist of sound reproduction, a foundation for ethnographic methods in the study of music and society. He is Associate Professor of Music at Bard College and leads the Ethnomusicology Curriculum Area in The Bard Music Program. Slaten earned the Ph.D. at Columbia University, where his ethnographic fieldwork at productions of outdoor music festivals, concert halls, and on Broadway informed his analysis entitled, “Doing Sound: An Ethnography of Fidelity, Temporality, and Labor Among Live Sound Engineers.” His research attends to human and non-human interactions with the diaphragmatic, transduction mechanisms of microphones and loudspeakers, describing these interactions as cultural constructions within and between the social life worlds of musical genres. This regard for technology and ethnography, a confrontational method between “the field” and scholarship, guided Slaten’s institutionalization of both ethnomusicology and music technology curricula and coursework at The New School, William Paterson University, and Columbia. The Society for Ethnomusicology, the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centers, the International Association for the Study of Popular Music, and The Art of Record Production Conference have hosted presentations of Slaten’s work. Columbia University Press, Taylor & Francis, and University of Michigan Press have published Slaten’s scholarship.