About FanRows

FanRows is an independent research and creative technology initiative exploring continuous embodied interaction with sound.

It began with a simple question:

What happens when sound does not react to discrete commands, but continuously reorganizes in relation to bodily presence?

From this question emerged a structured prototype for investigating regulation, stabilization, and perceptual drift in continuous audio environments.


Motivation

FanRows was not created as a production tool or commercial platform.

It emerged from dissatisfaction with event-based interaction models that dominate digital media systems. The project explores whether continuous regulation can offer a fundamentally different interaction structure.

The focus lies on:

  • sustained interaction instead of discrete triggering
  • state evolution instead of action execution
  • temporal regulation instead of symbolic control
  • embodied navigation instead of interface operation

Development Approach

FanRows is implemented as a browser-based framework for continuous body–sound interaction.

Its development is guided through:

  • refinement of the interaction structure
  • calibration of regulatory parameters
  • long-duration interaction sessions
  • design of continuous sound environments
  • conceptual clarification of interaction principles

The framework is designed to preserve conceptual coherence and regulatory transparency across its technical layers.


Current Status

FanRows is currently being developed as a research-oriented framework situated between embodied interaction, sound environment design, regulatory systems, and media architecture.


Technical Documentation

Further documentation of the FanRows architecture, interaction model, configuration structure, and implementation logic is available here:

Research & Technical Documentation


Contact

For artistic collaboration, research exchange, or conversations about sound spaces and embodied interaction:

info@berentz.net


FanRows — Continuous Embodied Audio Interaction

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