James Q. Davies is Professor of Music at UC Berkeley. He is author of Romantic Anatomies of Performance (2014), co-editor with Ellen Lockhart of Sound Knowledge: Music and Science in London, 1789-1851 (2016), and series editor with Nicholas Mathew of the book series New Material Histories of Music with University of Chicago Press. His new book is Creatures of the Air: Music, Atlantic Spirits, Breath 1817-1913 (Chicago, 2023), which explores musical orders of environmentality, coloniality, and political ecology: ideas about breath control, air-conditioning systems in buildings, as well as music and climate.