FanRows has grown through making, testing and repeatedly changing what did not feel right.
What began as an experiment with movement and sound gradually became a larger investigation into embodied interaction: how a system can respond to a moving body without reducing movement to a set of commands, how sound can become part of a continuous feedback loop, and what happens when such an interaction is experienced rather than simply operated.
The pages collected here look at FanRows from different perspectives.
The ideas behind FanRows and the questions that emerged while building it: movement, sound, embodiment, resonance and the space between deliberate control and open exploration.
How these ideas are implemented in the browser — from motion tracking and derived movement signals to the audio engine, mappings, scenes and the tools used to create sound spaces.
The experimental side of FanRows: observations, hypotheses, user tests and questions that cannot be answered through implementation alone.
The development of FanRows over time: technical decisions, revisions, failed approaches, discoveries and the long-term collaboration with AI that accompanied much of the project.
These perspectives overlap. They grew from the same process: building something, entering it through movement, noticing what happens, and returning to the system with a slightly different understanding.