Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to build a three-part beat using only a single raw waveform. Let’s go… Step 1: The sine wave is the raw building block of sound, of which all other ...

Listening to Surfing on Sine Waves in the context of electronic music circa 2002, I get an idea what it must have been like to listen to Buddy Holly in 1970. Naturally, there are both positive and ...

"S-I-N-E, because it's a sound wave," she explained to Apple Music. "That sound, sine, from above is what healed me to be able to dance my way out of this album. That was later in the recording ...

And yet, even if the sine wave is a distinctly unvarnished tool for music-making, Polachek’s compositions are also stylish in their way. Minimalism is often embraced as a utilitarian salve to ...