TY - INPR N1 - © The Author(s), 2025. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ TI - Movement Sonification of Familiar Music to Support the Agency of People with Chronic Pain Y1 - 2025/04// AV - public SP - 1 EP - 13 CY - New York, NY, USA A1 - Potapov, Kyrill A1 - Gold, Nicolas A1 - Olugbade, Temitayo A1 - Williams, Amanda A1 - Overbeck, Christopher A1 - Lynch, Danielle A1 - Nygren, Minna A1 - Berthouze, Nadia T3 - ACM SIG CHI KW - movement sonification KW - chronic pain KW - agency KW - sensors KW - music KW - enactivism N2 - FFAME (Filtering Familiar Audio for Movement Exploration) is a novel sonification framework aiming to facilitate movement in individuals with chronic back pain. Our personalised, music-based approach contrasts and extends prior work with predetermined tonal sonification. FFAME progressively filters selected music based on angles of the trunk. Through a qualitative analysis of reported experience of 15 participants with chronic pain and 5 physiotherapists, we identify how sonification parameters and musical characteristics affect movement and meaning-making. Music-based movement sonification proved impactful across multiple dimensions: (1) encouraging movement, (2) escaping pain-related rumination, (3) externalizing pain experiences, and (4) scaffolding physical activities. Drawing on enactivism and related philosophies, the study highlights how the semantic indeterminacy of music, combined with real-time movement sonification, created a rich, open-ended environment that supported user agency and exploration. Sonification for pain management can be creative and expressive, enabling people with pain to extend challenging movements and build movement confidence. ID - discovery10205722 PB - ACM UR - https://doi.org/10.1145/3706598.3713601 ER -