Sinewave

Sinewave is the one-man studio project of Vancouver musician Mark Wiebe. The project comes from Canada and works in electronic music with a strong drum and bass base, while also moving through ambient, downtempo, lo-fi and psytrance-influenced textures.

Recorded work

Sinewave emerges in 2001 with Interplanetary Ridicule, an album built from space-lounge ideas, b-movie samples and tightly edited drum and bass rhythms. It gains strong support on campus radio, finishes the year as the number one album of 2001 at the University of Manitoba’s UMFM, places eighteenth on !earshot’s top 200 for 2001, and receives international airplay on Solid Steel Radio.

After a gap of several years and a move from Winnipeg to Vancouver, Sinewave returns in 2006 with Unity Gain, issued on Vinyl Republik and Maximum Music Group. This release shifts away from the more aggressive approach of the earlier album and uses cinematic soundscapes, acoustic guitar and vocoder vocals. It reaches number eight on the !earshot top fifty and number one on the electronic chart.

Live work

Although Sinewave begins as a studio project, it becomes a live act with the addition of Jeremy Unrau on bass and keyboards, while Wiebe handles guitar, keyboards and vocals. The live show also uses visual material compiled by Wiebe and Unrau and synchronised with the performance. The project plays across Canada, including appearances at Canadian Music Week in Toronto and New Music West in Vancouver.

Other projects

Wiebe also records and performs with the Vancouver shoegaze group Guitaro, the live electronic duo Helpcomputer, and his electro-pop alter ego Markattack. He also works in music for screen, making his first film score in 2004 for the Leo Award-winning documentary Wrestling With The North. His songs later appear on television and film productions in the US and Canada, including The L-Word, Godiva’s, Trump Unauthorized and Murder in the Hamptons.