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Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I found this hardstyle techno-sounding sample in some random computer data!</p><p>The Rust tool I recently made (<a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/databending-part-4/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/databending-part-4/</span></a>) to speed this “databending” process up has been helping immensely</p><p>Instead of manually finding files that are big enough to be worthwhile, I can just dump a folder into the Rust tool, set a minimum file size, and sort the results by size and quickly preview them</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ElectronicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a></p>
Phracker<p>Glitchy Capybara</p><p>Something I made for April Fools Day on DeviantArt this past April. They started redirecting people to the Capybara tag as a joke, so I thought I'd capitalize on that.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Capybara" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Capybara</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlitchArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitchcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitchcore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corrupted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corrupted</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DataBending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DataBending</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PsychedelicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychedelicArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trippy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrippyArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrippyArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photomanipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photomanipulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIMP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pixel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pixels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixels</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PixelSorting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelSorting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Surreal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surreal</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Surrealist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surrealist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Surrealism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Surrealism</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colorful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorful</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colourful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colourful</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artwork</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtistOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistOnMastodon</span></a></p>
hellocatfood<p>Been having fun finding new image file formats to try glitching. Well, I say new but most of the interesting glitches I find are in old and defunct file formats.</p><p><a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/glitchart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glitchart</span></a> <a href="https://post.lurk.org/tags/databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databending</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>One way to get more variety when transforming data into audio is to change the encoding. Today I'm implementing the VOX ADPCM telephone codec — which I especially like — in Rust to accomplish this!</p><p><a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/databending-part-5/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/databending-part-5/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/DSP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DSP</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ElectronicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>Oh and the code (now with the VOX ADPCM) is here! </p><p><a href="https://github.com/reillypascal/data2audio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/reillypascal/data2a</span><span class="invisible">udio</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecom</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecommunications</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ADPCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADPCM</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>There's definitely going to be a blog post about this, with some more backstory on ADPCM and the VOX format</p><p>I've been reading windytan's blog (<a href="https://www.windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound-of-dialup-pictured.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">windytan.com/2012/11/the-sound</span><span class="invisible">-of-dialup-pictured.html</span></a>) lately and really enjoying the deep dives into how specific audio things work, and I think I want to do some of that.</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecom</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecommunications</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ADPCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADPCM</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I found the original VOX ADPCM specification (<a href="https://multimedia.cx/mirror/dialogic-adpcm.pdf" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">multimedia.cx/mirror/dialogic-</span><span class="invisible">adpcm.pdf</span></a>), and when that didn't sound quite like Audacity's implementation, I looked at the FFMPEG source (<a href="https://ffmpeg.org/doxygen/7.0/adpcm_8c_source.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ffmpeg.org/doxygen/7.0/adpcm_8</span><span class="invisible">c_source.html</span></a>)</p><p>For some reason, FFMPEG seems to do it a bit differently than the specification. I'll have to look into that more and see what's going on, but for the time being, it works!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecom</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecommunications</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ADPCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADPCM</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I implemented my own VOX ADPCM decoder! </p><p>I had mentioned (<a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/databending-part-4/#adpcm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/databending-part-4/#adpcm</span></a>) wanting to use that format to interpret raw data as audio, and the Rust Symphonia crate (<a href="https://crates.io/crates/symphonia/0.3.0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crates.io/crates/symphonia/0.3</span><span class="invisible">.0</span></a>) didn't have the VOX variant and assumed the incoming data was properly formatted as an ADPCM file, rather than random data, so it was actually easier to do myself. </p><p>Here's how it sounds:</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecom</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Telecommunications" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Telecommunications</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ADPCM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ADPCM</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>Manually importing data as audio in Audacity sounds super cool but takes a while and slows down my composition. Today I'm automating it in Rust!</p><p><a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/05/databending-part-4/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/05/databending-part-4/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/RustLang" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RustLang</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Composer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Composer</span></a></p>
MikkiSometimes I like to just cut a picture into a million pieces and stick them back together in a random order and then mess with the colors. <br> <br> (Same source photo for both of these)<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/glitchart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glitchart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/glitchartist?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glitchartist</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/datamoshing?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#datamoshing</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/databending?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#databending</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/colorful?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colorful</a>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I added the high pass filter I coded from scratch to my Rust databending tool (<a href="https://github.com/reillypascal/data2audio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/reillypascal/data2a</span><span class="invisible">udio</span></a>)</p><p>It's so much nicer not needing to manually import each file into Audacity and filter/normalize it — the tool is already making me much more enthusiastic to compose with these sounds!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> #<a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I'm getting back into Rust, and my current project is automating the databending from this post (<a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/01/databending-part-1/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/01/databending-part-1/</span></a>)</p><p>Importing individual files as raw data in Audacity is slow, and on top of that, I like to cut out the sub-20 Hz noise and normalize the result. So far, I can traverse through subfolders and write everything to a new output folder </p><p>I made an audio filter in Rust last summer (<a href="https://github.com/reillypascal/rs_rust_audio" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/reillypascal/rs_rus</span><span class="invisible">t_audio</span></a>), so the next step will be to incorporate that here and filter the result. I'm having a lot of fun with it!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Rust</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Programming</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Coding</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I'm continuing my databending series of blog posts. Today we'll discuss how to use Python to easily glitch up MP3s, adding warbles, clicks, and other cool noise!</p><p><a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/databending-part-3/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/04/databending-part-3/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/MusicProduction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MusicProduction</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SoundDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SoundDesign</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ElectronicMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ElectronicMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Musodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musodon</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>Here's the original un-glitched MP3. I'll be writing a follow-up blog post as I refine this, so stay tuned!</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Musodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musodon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GlitchMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a></p>
Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)<p>I figured out automating the MP3 glitching I describe in this blog post! <a href="https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/02/databending-part-2/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/202</span><span class="invisible">5/02/databending-part-2/</span></a></p><p>It's extremely basic, but I almost never use Python, so I'm glad to find that it works. The code is on GitHub, and I'll be adding more as I refine it: <a href="https://github.com/reillypascal/mp3glitch" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/reillypascal/mp3gli</span><span class="invisible">tch</span></a></p><p>Here's the glitched up MP3 I tested:</p><p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Audio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Audio</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Musodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Musodon</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/GlitchMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/ExperimentalMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ExperimentalMusic</span></a> <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/NoiseMusic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NoiseMusic</span></a></p>
Ashe🐈‍⬛🍄🔜FURRYDELPHIA!!!<p>Took my ADHD meds too late in the day yesterday so instead of sleeping a reasonable amount I learned a new glitchy photo editing trick :neocat_cool: </p><p>shoutout <a href="https://questionsomething.wordpress.com/2012/07/26/databending-using-audacity-effects/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">QuestionSomething</a> and <a href="https://www.hellocatfood.com/databending-using-audacity/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Antonio Roberts</a> for the cool idea</p><p><a href="https://meow.social/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>photography</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/glitchart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glitchart</span></a> <a href="https://meow.social/tags/databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>databending</span></a></p>
Michal Jenčoexclusive showcase on what I am currently working on. experimenting with custom glitching algorithms in python and applying them to my photos.<br> <br> 1st is one of the best results yet, 2nd is the original photo from 2013<br> <br> slightly edited in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/vaporgram_app?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#vaporgram_app</a> also<br> <br> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/glitch?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glitch</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/glitchart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#glitchart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/databending?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#databending</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pixelmanipulation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pixelmanipulation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/math?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#math</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/python?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#python</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/script?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#script</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/scripting?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scripting</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pil?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pil</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/programming?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#programming</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/digitalart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#digitalart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/brno?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#brno</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/czechia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#czechia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computerart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computerart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/computergraphics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#computergraphics</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/addictedtomakingart?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#addictedtomakingart</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ilovecoputers?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ilovecoputers</a>
Phracker<p>H4xx0r5p4c3</p><p>Just something I made in GIMP. An edit of a databending of an edit of a photo.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlitchArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitchcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitchcore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PsychedelicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychedelicArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trippy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrippyArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrippyArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colorful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorful</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DotMatrix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DotMatrix</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retro</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/RetroAesthetic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroAesthetic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Landscape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Landscape</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Scape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scape</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Scenery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Scenery</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIMP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photo</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Photomanipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Photomanipulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Manipulation</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pixel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixel</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PixelArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pixels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pixels</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artwork</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtistOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistOnMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AvantGarde" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AvantGarde</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AvantGardeArtist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AvantGardeArtist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtHacking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtHacking</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corrupted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corrupted</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Error" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Error</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Errors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Errors</span></a></p>
Phracker<p>Rift</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlitchArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitchcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitchcore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Abstract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abstract</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AbstractArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbstractArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Geometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geometric</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeometricArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeometricArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trippy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corrupted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corrupted</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PixelSorting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PixelSorting</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colorful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorful</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artwork</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtistOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistOnMastodon</span></a></p>
Phracker<p>Glitchy Grid</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitch</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GlitchArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GlitchArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Glitchcore" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Glitchcore</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Abstract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Abstract</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AbstractArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbstractArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Digital" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Digital</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/DigitalArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitalArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Corrupted" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Corrupted</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Analog" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analog</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Analogue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Analogue</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Databending" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Databending</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Geometric" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Geometric</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GeometricArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeometricArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Colorful" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Colorful</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelic</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/PsychedelicArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PsychedelicArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Psychedelia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Psychedelia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Trippy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trippy</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TrippyArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrippyArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/GIMP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GIMP</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pattern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pattern</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Art" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Art</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Artwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artwork</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Artist</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ArtistOnMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArtistOnMastodon</span></a></p>