Continuous Embodied Audio Interaction
FanRows is a browser-based experimental framework for continuous embodied audio interaction.
The system investigates how full-body pose features — including joint angles, motion velocity, posture stability, and temporal persistence — can regulate layered sound states in real time. Instead of structuring interaction around discrete triggers, symbolic commands, or timeline-based progression, FanRows operates through continuous modulation and state-based regulation.
Sound is not treated as an event to be executed.
It is structured as a dynamic field whose behavior depends on ongoing bodily presence.
Closed-Loop Regulation
FanRows operates as a continuous feedback system.
Bodily states influence the sound environment.
The evolving sound environment, in turn, influences bodily behavior.
This reciprocal relationship forms a closed regulatory loop rather than a command-response structure. Interaction is not directional but cyclical: motion alters the field, the field alters perception, perception alters motion.
The system enables investigation of self-stabilizing dynamics, drift behavior, and emergent regulation patterns within embodied audio environments.
An Alternative Interaction Model
Most interactive audio systems rely on event logic: a gesture activates a sound, a command triggers a change, a timeline defines progression.
FanRows explores a different structural model.
Interaction unfolds as gradual regulation. Sustained posture may enable state transitions, while reduced movement can lead to perceptual stabilization. Rather than producing discrete outcomes, the system allows behavioral tendencies to accumulate and influence the evolving sound field over time.
The emphasis shifts from executing actions to regulating conditions within a continuous feedback loop.
Research Context
FanRows is developed as an independent research prototype situated within embodied interaction, experimental audio systems, and non-symbolic interface design.
The structural design and component architecture of the system are documented in the Architecture section.
FanRows — Continuous Embodied Audio Interaction
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