Audio experience × audio technology
Audio Experience × Audio Technology
Who we are
What Wave Grinder is.
Wave Grinder is an audio experience and audio technology studio, based in Edinburgh.
We believe sound experience has a universal power to connect people — and we work on both sides of that belief. On one side, we design in-person experiences: workshops where people collect, create, and share sounds that genuinely move them. On the other, we build web audio tools that bring those experiences to anyone with a browser, anywhere in the world.
The two sides are not separate projects. They’re the same question, asked in two different languages: what does it take for sound to truly connect people? The workshops give us the answer in real life. The technology lets us scale it.
Sound art is everywhere in media, yet rarely encountered as a lived experience. Most sound projects show the audience a result — a finished piece, a polished output — which makes it difficult to relate to or understand. Wave Grinder takes a different approach: we bring people into the process of making sound. Not just listening. Making. Together.
The team
The people behind it.
Fred Yuan Feng · Co-founder
Fred is a sound designer and developer based in Edinburgh, currently completing an MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh. He has designed immersive sound installations for Edinburgh art venues, built browser-based audio tools used by game developers and sound artists, and runs Wave Grinder with the conviction that sound is the most underused medium for human connection.
Astrud Espinoza · Co-founder
Astrud is a digital music production engineer and sound designer with a background spanning game audio, sound art, and audio programming. Currently completing an MSc in Sound Design at the University of Edinburgh, she brings deep technical fluency to Wave Grinder’s tools and a cross-disciplinary perspective to everything we build and run.
Background
Our background.
Wave Grinder’s team comes from the University of Edinburgh’s MSc Sound Design programme — a cohort with backgrounds spanning film sound, animation scoring, game audio, sound installation, and interactive media.
We’re not a single-discipline studio. That breadth is deliberate: designing sound experiences that genuinely work across different people and different contexts requires understanding how sound operates in each of them.
Edinburgh-based, with deep roots in the local arts and technology scene
Academic grounding in sound design as a system discipline, not just a production craft
Active in Edinburgh’s festival and venue ecosystem — EAF, Fringe, and beyond
Where we’re headed
Wave Grinder is bigger than any single workshop or tool.
Building a Creative Community
A space in Edinburgh — and online — for creative people from everywhere. Sound is where we started. The community is bigger than that.
Supporting Sound Artists
Technical support and resource-sharing for local sound artists — lowering the production barrier for experimental and installation work that would otherwise be out of reach.
Sharing Opportunities
A curated feed of grants, residencies, commissions, and calls relevant to the sound art community in Scotland and the UK — so the people who should know about them actually do.
Company
Company Information
Registered Name
WAVE GRINDER LTD
Company Number
SC876799
Registered in
Edinburgh, Scotland
Contact
hello@wavegrinderaudio.com
Collaborate
Work With Us
We collaborate with cultural institutions, arts festivals, schools, and local organisations. If you have a project in mind — a workshop programme, an artist support initiative, a joint event — we’d like to hear about it.