FeedForward | UnChambered

Interactive Installation

 

FeedForward | UnChambered is an interactive robotic sound installation that begins from a premise associated with quantum theory: observation is never neutral. Robotic arms equipped with microphones continuously scan the acoustic space surrounding loudspeakers, capturing and amplifying sound that is immediately fed back into the system. Through this recursive process, sound does not exist as a fixed entity but emerges through the act of measurement itself.

As microphone positions shift, feedback may intensify, collapse, or fade, selectively reinforcing certain frequencies while suppressing others. Over time, the system converges into an audible echo chamber that listens primarily to its own output. This self-reinforcing structure serves as a metaphor for ideological echo chambers, filter bubbles, and AI systems increasingly trained on their own data.

Audience intervention disrupts this closure. By altering acoustic conditions or introducing new sounds, participants create small deviations that propagate through subsequent measurements, redirecting the system’s sonic evolution. Feedforward | Unchambered proposes a shift from closed feedback toward a feedforward mode of listening—one that remains responsive to difference, contingency, and external presence.

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work-in-progress 

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