Spatial computing app for musical exploration of the Internet of Everything
Ove Holmqvist
Holon is an interactive alternative to passive listening of recorded music that uses data from the surrounding physical world to generate music synthesised in real time on the mobile device. The Holonic apps, Holon and Holonist, lets you use spatial computing and the Internet of Everything to make and perform synth patches created in miRack, a virtual modular synth studio by our partners mifki Limited.
This means the music changes as you move around your city, either walking or in a vehicle. Everything from street furniture to monuments can be turned into musical interactions. There are currently more than 20 million such affordances available in over 500 locations worldwide.
An even more remarkable feature transforms the sound depending on the current land use - zoning, basically. For example, areas with offices or residential housing are rather low in intensity, but the music picks up pace when you enter a retail area. Similarly, going to a park or beach lowers the intensity, effectively turning the music into ambient. Industrial areas may change the instruments to sound hard and metallic to reflect the danger and activity present.
We now also support user created content, as the latest miRack update includes many templates and presets to get started in developing custom patches that can be shared to the free Holon app.
The apps are available now:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1352687747 - Free Holon iOS app
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id1359763686 - Holonist editor iOS app
More info is available at https://www.holonic.systems