F(r)ee Road: An Artistic Research Audiovisual Project

Abstract

This paper explains the author’s artistic process in creating an audiovisual project with a social message called F(r)ee Road. The project is a game-based composition for one player in which the player controls a user-object and tries to avoid collisions. The work is founded on two concepts: glitch-art, an aesthetic of error used to create both visual and sound modifications; and data sonification, the conversion of data to non-speech sound. All processes were created by personal computers using Max, a software program created by Cycling 74. This work is a contribution to the blossoming field of sonification-based art.