When microwave technology for heating food entered the home, it turned at-home cooking culture on its head. The microwave can be compared to an investment of resources designed to achieve efficiency, alongside the desire to shorten waiting time. Such resources culminate in a symphony of sounds composed of waiting and redemption – a musical user-experience etched into collective consciousness.Similar to the microwave, countless appliances redeem us from waiting for them to complete an action they were required to perform, each in its own unique style. Employing the sound produced by the microwave, micro.wav creates a new and playful harmony situated between the strange and the familiar.