>Databenders has a new owner, so it's all good. If you want to get in
>touch with tofu (aka Mike), email databenders-owner@yahoogroups.com.

*waves*

Welcome -- some of our 300+ subscribers are probably surprised to learn
they're still on the list ;)

Guessing that we're all at different levels in our databending efforts,
let me throw out a question to you -- what are some of _your_ basic tools
for databending? just looking an idea of what's out there: software (and
platform) and/or hardware...

For example, the old standby of opening pictures or text files with a
audio editor (in my case, CoolEditPro) will still get interesting results.
Like this one called "Alphabet 4" which came from opening a text file with
repeating strings of a-z, A-Z, 0-9...

http://www.synthcleveland.com/imaginary/alphabet4.mp3

this sound in turn, was used in the microsound mcdonna project (2001)

http://microsound.org/mcdonna/audio/mcdonna_tofu_azano.mp3

or streaming from http://microsound.org/mcdonna/

So, what do you use to bend your data?