Tracing the roots of dubstep music back to the invention of electronic sound synthesis in music-making. And back further to the mathematics of functions and trigonometry. And back even more to the Pythagorean monochord. And back all the way to the still-unanswered question — did humans speak first, or sing?

The human vocal apparatus — and a brain that can create both speech and song — could be likened to a meat-based computer capable of audio signal processing and encoding, all in the service of broadcasting data to others who share this gear and also the meat-based signal decoder connected to each of your ear holes.