Sox

Echobender

Myself and Mez recently finished a script called Echobender that automatically databends images.

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To use it you’ll need:

• A computer with Linux installed. I don’t have a Windows or Mac PC so I can’t test it on those
• Sox. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install sox
• Convert, which is part of ImageMagick. On Ubuntu you can install it via sudo apt-get install imagemagick

Once you have those installed just execute ./echobender.sh from the terminal and then drop a .jpg or .bmp file into it. The output will be in a folder called “echo”.

Streams of data

One of my overall goals is to find a way to databend live video. I’m sure there’s a way to do it with Processing and PureData but I’m not yet proficient in those programs so they’re out of the question for now. In the meantime I thought to try and hack the Echobender script to databend my webcam images.

tonyg provides a great tutorial on how to convert live webcam images into audio, which I’ve used as a starting point for my hack.