#sin wave

One thing about me is I’m gonna check out the bathroom at all the cool looking bars

(Billy Plant)

There are some artists that will admit to never liking math or never having a good reason to understand the concepts behind everything.  It starts with basic math that we all have come to understand one way or another.  Adding and subtracting, multiplying and dividing – we use this pretty much every day when we shop for groceries at the store.  Then the math gets complicated.  Things like geometry and trigonometry seem over our heads, and for some this is true.  When are we going to need to understand sin and cosine?  How often do we find ourselves finding angles and calculating things like trajectory?  Not very often. There are some musicians that actually understand math and how deeply it is connected to sound and music.  The idea of the sin wave is something we can only see on graphs in calculus, but in the world of sound it actually has a meaning that can be heard and felt.  It is pretty amazing once you being to look deeper into electronic sound and just how relevant the many waveforms are.  For once in your life, the visual understanding of a wave gets connected to the audible meaning – something that is actually useful! http://www.synthtopia.com/content/2013/05/21/synthesis-fundamentals-explained-in-new-poster-series/

quick doodle in Processing

Phase Issues TEST3 by AndYouAreWho http://ift.tt/1eSZrkR

This graph is periodic and infinite. This means we can use an infinite amount of angles (positive as well as negative) to show the graph of the sin curve. We can also use this in sciences -per se to dictate a population of bacteria over a length of time, which, most likely, will have a much more complex equation that comes with it. These are common graphs when working with electricity and sound. We can also play with period, amplitude and translation to give the curve much different appearances.