What is data bending? Down at the intersection of electronic and experimental is an idea called data bending. It is the abuse of software to produce new sound. Software including programs, files and raw data of all kinds. Why do it? Good question. It's probably some mix of the following: (a) the joy of new and unexpected sound, (b) the possibility of taking data that has a particular meaning and translating it into sound - an image file, for example, (c) the overriding of cold, byte-perfect computer logic, (d) it's fun to fuck with things.

A cousin of data bending is circuit bending - the hardware equivalent. Electronic devices of all kinds are hacked to produce new results. More

"Nestune" is a circuit bent Famicom (Asian nintendo entertainment system) and allows manual override of its internal circuitry to create visual and auditory corruption. Nestune also excepts audio signals to control various circuitry acting like an 8bit audio visualizer. More

cementimental is another circuit bender with lot's of mp3 and video files on his webpage.