We may think of electronic music as more connected to science and math due to the equipment it’s made on and seeing the waveforms onscreen in ways our musical predecessors could only have dreamed, but the science and math of music has been heavily studied at the very least since the time of the ancient Greeks. Pythagoras is of course known for his theorem around measuring triangles, but he also applied his studies and findings to music.
Flash forward through wax cylinders, Musique Concrète, Tangerine Dream and now EDM, the science and math of sound is more important to pop culture than it’s ever been, and there’s a stalwart fleet of experimental artists pushing that research. Ottowa-based Electric Treatment Free could definitely be counted among those experimenters, though he just splashed onto the scene recently. His debut self-titled is definitely a study in how sounds come together.