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!
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/04/databending-part-3/
Here's the original un-glitched MP3. I'll be writing a follow-up blog post as I refine this, so stay tuned!
I figured out automating the MP3 glitching I describe in this blog post! https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/02/databending-part-2/
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: https://github.com/reillypascal/mp3glitch
Here's the glitched up MP3 I tested:
I'm making some more databending sounds today, and this one sounds surprisingly like a damped music box!
It reminds me of the custom music box machines from Clara Iannotta's "The People Here Go Mad. They Blame The Wind" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hynpA1YmY9o). I believe she has some wood boxes with 12 music boxes, motors to run them, and adjustable dampers.
New blog post! I talk about how to turn any file into glitchy noise. It's a very fun and easy sound design trick that anyone with Audacity can try out:
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/posts/2025/01/databending-part-1/
If you've ever wondered how to create your own glitch art, I wrote this primer on how to alter images with a text editor. It's an older post, but I just updated it and checked all the old links. Let me know if you see anything that needs updating. https://docpop.org/2014/01/a-glitch-primer-editing-image-files-with-text-editors/ #GlitchArt #databending
A wrapped up and delivered itself served scenario.
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Weighing effects on the surroundings by the waste.
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Ask a question about the rights to representation.
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How many efforts are essentially an echo of habit?
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Still about the wonder about basic configurations.
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Gleaning remnants off of paths gathered from ways.
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Displacements acceptable require accessible means.
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The narrow path may have had an inverse affection.
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The narrow path may have had an inverse affection.
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Order in the core tenets fastening public conduct.
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In convene mode along the line meant to sway away.
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Clues about the dynamic between having and desire.
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Crowd control acclimation acceleration overruling.
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Glitch Urbexia
This is based on a variation of databending that I call cosine bending. This involves manipulating the parameters of the discrete cosine transform algorithm used to perform lossy compression on a JPEG image. This may sound rather advanced and convoluted, but it really just means saving a JPEG at a very low quality to produce glitch effects. I did that with one of my old urbex photos, and then I messed with the colors in GIMP and applied some pixel sorting to get the image shown here. 
