Noah Kahrs is assistant professor of music in music theory at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Kahrs is a music theorist whose research relates a wide range of twentieth-century musics to developments in technology and theories of hearing. His dissertation and ongoing research investigate how American experimental music, French spectral music and other electroacoustic repertoires renegotiate tonality’s relationship to acoustics and perceptual science.

He currently teaches Ear Training and Music Theory at Northern Arizona University and previously taught at the Eastman School of Music. He earned degrees in music theory and composition from the Eastman School of Music and in music and mathematics from the University of Chicago. He has contributed to the Society for Music Theory as a cochair of the Post-1945 Music Analysis Interest Group and as an editorial assistant for Music Theory Spectrum.