[1] His book Noise, Water, Meat: A History of Sound in the Arts was published by MIT Press in 1999.
The Times Literary Supplement called the book "an impressive combination of solid academic research and theoretical pyrotechnics.
MIT Press summarized the book as, "Investigating the concepts and material realities of energy coursing through the arts: a foundational text."
With composer and founding editor Larry Austin, Kahn edited Source: Music of the Avant-garde, a collection of material drawn from the original Source: Music of the Avant Garde magazine series and, with the art historian Hannah Higgins, he has edited a collection of essays and historical documents, Mainframe Experimentalism: Early Computing and the Foundations of the Digital Arts.
Kahn appears in the 1995 film Sonic Outlaws by San Francisco filmmaker Craig Baldwin.