This is the Fourier Transform. You can thank it for providing the music you stream every day, squeezing down the images you see on the Internet into tiny little JPG files, and even powering your noise ...

Earlier this fall, it was announced that DiGiCo had acquired U.K.-based live software developer and manufacturer, Fourier Audio. Now, the two are set to unveil its transform.engine at AES (stand 823).

Harmonic analysis occupies a central position in modern mathematical analysis by providing the tools to express complex functions as superpositions of simpler sinusoidal components via the Fourier ...