The synergy between aural and visual art is an immense history of accidental and deliberate collaborations; from the pioneering work of Walter Geirs, to the contemporary relationship between producer/DJs and visual producers, we're enamored with the ability to orchestrate sound, light, physical mediums, and kinesthetics into a synchronous, multi-sensory experience. Born out of the intent to reimagine and revolutionize audio-visual art, Sinewave Collective combines broad narratives and lucid A/V content into immersive, multifaceted projects. Their newest release, Luft | Air, is an outstanding dive into the realm of meticulously curated A/V experiences, ostensibly reinterpreting our relationship with electronic music and digital art media. 

Sinewave Collective’s debut project, Jord | Earth, is an ambitious exploration of narrative themes surrounding life, death, and the world around us. The massive release was created in collaboration with more than twenty audio and visual producers, including RefraQ, Eckle, Glass  Arrowhead, and Sinewave co-founders Pluvio and Ampro. The stunning design and intense development of the entire collection is the hallmark of Sinewave Collective’s ethos; digesting music not just as a temporal act of consumption, but as a full-service experience. That ethos resonates even louder in their sophomore project Luft | Air, flipping the idea of recursive, dance floor-friendly arrangements on their head, and moving far more than just hips and shoulders through rhythm and composition.

With swelling, orchestral percussion crashing around Alicia Kiah’s cascading violins, Aeos’ “Ascent” opens Luft | Air with bold charisma and gripping resolution. Subtle touches of synthesis and spatial effects compliment the resoundingly organic track, channeling a weighty regality with every refrain. It’s a powerful welcome to Sinewave’s invigorating conceptual journey, immediately showcasing the breadth of the album’s emotional pull.

Chalky’s contribution to the release, “Elevate”, is a sensual dive into jubilant chords and waves of ambient foley. Droning sub bass carries the melody like a cradle and a lullabye, with Kiah’s violin gently gliding across the center of the stereo space. Flitted, syncopated drum lines skip in and out of focus until the thumping cadence of the song dims into faded chimes and a last rush of white noise.

Evoke’s track, “Cascading”, finishes the journey of Luft | Air with a potent fusion of texture and vivacious groove. Precision low-end modulates phrase to phrase, warping in and out of the mix with magnetic velocity. The song’s dance-heavy rhythm is the most pronounced on the release, and feels representative of the evolution of songwriting present from track to track. Inverse to the collection’s opener, “Cascading” is a raw, aggressive final waltz across the meaty synthesis of contemporary bass music.

Sinewave Collective’s adherence to their forward thinking songwriting philosophy is now firmly accredited twice over, with Jord and Luft complimenting each other with a grace accomplished by few in the realm of multi-album narratives. The production standard across both the musical and visual territories exudes a professional quality and polish that only serves to further their reputation for high fidelity and striking originality. With a total of sixteen audio-visual journeys across both Jord and Luft, there’s plenty of content to get lost in while the collective once again locks themselves in the lab and misplaces the key, and we’re just as excited to see what the future holds for the Sinewave team.

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