A manufacturer of modular synthesizers in the 1970s, formed by David Bates and Terry Kincaid. They met at the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, MI USA, in the late 1960s, where Bates was a professor of music theory and already a renown composer in the modern classical genre. Kincaid was a graduate student, having transferred there from the University of Washington to be part of the burgeoning electronic-music scene that existed in Ann Arbor at the time. Kincaid earned his doctorate in music in 1970, and shortly after, the two formed Wavemakers (originally called KB Music).