FanRows is an independent research initiative developed and maintained by a single creator with a background in software engineering and long-term interest in embodied cognition and regulatory systems.
The project began as an investigation into a simple question:
What happens when sound does not react to discrete commands, but continuously reorganizes in relation to bodily presence?
Over time, this question evolved into the development of a structured prototype for studying regulation, stabilization, and perceptual drift in continuous audio environments.
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:
FanRows is implemented as a browser-based prototype and evolves through iterative experimentation.
The system is refined through:
While technically layered, the framework is designed to maintain conceptual coherence and regulatory transparency.
FanRows is an ongoing experimental framework.
It invites academic dialogue, structured collaboration, and research exchange focused on embodied interaction, regulatory systems, and media architectures.
Detailed documentation of the FanRows system architecture, interaction model, and configuration schema is available in the public technical reference repository:
https://github.com/berentzj/fanrows-info
For artistic collaboration, research exchange, or conversations about sound spaces and embodied interaction:
FanRows — Continuous Embodied Audio Interaction
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