FeedForward | UnChambered

Interactive Installation

 

FeedForward | UnChambered is a kinetic sound installation that explores sonic self-replication and the formation of an echo chamber. Robotic arms equipped with microphones continuously scan the acoustic space around loudspeakers, capturing sounds that are amplified and immediately fed back into the system. Each cycle becomes the source material for the next, allowing the system to repeatedly reproduce and transform its own output.

As the microphones move, feedback intensifies, collapses, or fades, reinforcing certain frequencies while suppressing others. Over time, the system increasingly listens to—and learns from—its own output, gradually converging into a closed sonic environment. This recursive process serves as a metaphor for ideological echo chambers, filter bubbles, and AI systems increasingly trained on AI-generated data.

Audience intervention disrupts this cycle. By changing the acoustic conditions or introducing new sounds, participants create small deviations that propagate through subsequent iterations, redirecting the system’s sonic evolution. The work also draws on a premise associated with quantum theory: observation is never entirely neutral, and the act of measurement participates in shaping what emerges.

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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"Feedforward | UnChambered" exhibited at the International Conference on New Interfaces for Musical Expression (NIME 2026) in London and selected for ISEA 2026, the International Symposium on Electronic Art.

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