Databending Experiment Audacity - Own Photographs

Audacity, a sound file program is another way of exploring data bending to create unique photographs. This technique involved exporting the original photograph as a TIFF file in order to import this as a raw data file within Audacity. This allowed the photograph to be edited such as adding the effects to the file from the Audacity effects list. Once the photograph was edited this would then involve exporting this and reopening it within Photoshop to see the desired effects.

This was the first attempt at data bending the photographs within Audacity which used the Echo effect. The result wasn't as expected and I was disappointed with the overall result, especially when comparing this result to other results found online. This seems to have edited the photograph completely, unable to see any parts of the original photograph, which overall is a disappointment. 

This is the second attempt at using Audacity and the effect, Echo. This attempt used a different photograph which has altered the colour of the result, from a green to a blue which contains hints of different colours. Again, this result is disappointing as it is near enough the same result as the first attempt apart from the different colours used.

This was the final attempt at using Audacity to data bend the photograph. This time I used a different effect to see if this impacted the photograph different, I used the equalisation effect. The result is near enough the same as the previous two photographs except this time the lines don't appear to be as blurry and in the middle/top half of the photograph there is a block of pure colour. The colour is also noticeably different, as this contain as extremely light red. However despite the different effect the photograph didn't have the outcome I expected as none of the original photograph can be seen due to the amount of lines used to recreate the photograph.

As a result of this experiment I will not be using data bending to construct my final piece as I would need more time to figure out how to achieve a more pleasing photograph.

This is a screenshot of the file inserted within Audacity. This shows that the photograph is now being treated as a sound file, this is evidenced within the waves of the file.

This screenshot shows that I am choosing the Echo effect to experiment with the file currently inserted within Audacity.