Instead, it’s one of those things found organically.

Much like the Impact Corn, Caltucky Freedom Glaze, and Americanized Beef, fake products found inside Omega Mart, visitors will have to search for the bar staff won’t direct anyone to the space that features no signs. Hidden inside the exhibit, a bar dubbed Datamosh with eight specialty cocktails. The Save as type should be set to Other uncompressed files, the Header should be set to RAW (header-less) and the Encoding should be set to either U-Law or A-Law depending on which was chosen during the import process.Īudacity may complain that not all is well with the filename, and perhaps prompt for metadata but these prompts can be accepted and ignored.Īll that’s left is to check the result - in an image viewer, not a music player.Omega Mart, the art installation disguised as a grocery store at Area15, has so much more to it than meets the eye. Once we’ve applied one or more filter effects we can export the data back to an image by selecting:Ĭhange the filename back to the proper image extension, in this case BMP. The hero image of this post was created using the Compressor and Echo filters applied to the entire file. You’ll see the waveform change as each filter effect is applied. I have found the Invert, Reverb, Reverse, Wahwah, Compressor and Echo work quite well, but here is where you can experiment. Once we have a selection, we can apply any of the filters under the Effects menu.

In some cases it’s better avoid selecting the beginning (first 5-10 seconds of the waveform) of the file as this contains the file header, a section of the file which contains information needed to display the image, if the image won’t display after exporting consider leaving the header intact. Now we can select any portion of the file or its entirety by clicking and dragging on the waveform (the chart-like display). The image will now be open as an audio file, I don’t suggest pressing play. Defaults will work fine for the rest of the import options. We will have to export with the same encoding setting so remember which was selected. Once we have an image and Audacity installed, open Audacity and import the image by selecting:Īudacity will then ask for some information about the file we are importing, we’re going to lie, for Encoding select either U-Law or A-Law. Secondly we’ll need a databending-friendly image, the BMP format works well for this type of bending. Firstly we’ll need some audio processing software, many will work, Audacity is free, supports many platforms and works quite well for glitching images.

Datamosh video with audacity