First successful attempt at data bending photography. Taken from a photo illustration of adderall pills and their methy insides.
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Sarah Palin distorted and glitched to the shit she is. I’m really falling in love with this data bending technique. Something about the parallel to synesthesia I find quite intriguing.
For anyone who doesn’t know what I’m talking about (or even reads this shit) data bending is a process where you take an uncompressed image file and convert the raw data to sound. After careful effects are added you can get quite radical results if you manage to keep the file from completely self destructing. I’m hoping to eventually get this thing down to a science and see if I can compose a picture of a design that could potentially create a listenable song, or vice versa.
Synesthesia is a condition where a person experiences something through one of their senses and they involuntarily experience it through another sense (like hearing notes as colors).
This was a piece I created for my 4D New Genre Art class. The faces are Sean Ivins and Samantha Dickens of the Chiptune band Forest World. I was attempting to somehow visualize their sound (which is alot less chaotic).
I used a technique called data bending to process the images used. It entails importing uncompressed image files into a sound editing software and editing the file to produce a desired (sometimes unpredictable) result.
Download: http://forestworld.bandcamp.com/
Band Tumblr: http://forestworld.tumblr.com/
Sean’s Tumblr: http://seanivins.tumblr.com/
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Been sitting on alot of unfinished chiptune demos for a while now. Thinking about releasing a short EP in the future. You can hear a few tracks on my soundcloud by clicking through the image, or clicking here.
4 images composited of an Arizona moonrise, then sonified, converted to text, sonified again, converted to text again, added a Carl Sagan quote a few times, blended together in photoshop, and animated in fireworks.
“A scientific colleague tells me about a recent trip to the New Guinea highlands where she visited a stone age culture hardly contacted by Western civilization. They were ignorant of wristwatches, soft drinks, and frozen food. But they knew about Apollo 11. They knew that humans had walked on the Moon. They knew the names of Armstrong and Aldrin and Collins. They wanted to know who was visiting the Moon these days.”
-Carl Sagan from Pale Blue Dot
Full Resolution Image (not animated): click
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