Holon

Explore Cities With Musical AR

Published by: Holonic Systems Oy

Description

Holon makes the city your instrument. It turns your movement in the environment into a synthetic, interactive score that reflects your context, supports your activities and alerts you to changes in the surrounding area.
Holon uses physical computing and a geospatial dataset to synthesize music on the iPhone in real time from your data - no streaming or AI involved, just pure DSP and logic.
What Holon Does:
* Human powered music. Every action generates dynamic, improvised synth music in real time.
* Encourages outdoor activities. Holon doesn’t work in your apartment or by shaking your phone around. Move through streets, parks, and transit systems to make the music happen.
* Stays out of your way. Zero UI means less screen time, no distractions.
* Uses places and spaces to modify the music you make. The environment isn’t background - it’s the score.
* The more and further you move, the more things happen in the music. Use your musical agency instead of skipping and swiping.
Why Holon Exists:

Music has been reduced to a commodity and a background activity for consumerism. Holon isn’t here to help you chill when you swipe, scroll and buy more stuff, or improve your focus when working for the Man.
Holon is here to break away from the static, one-way relationship of streaming services and to put the human in the loop - yourself. Forget emoting celebrities with their false sincerity, throw overproduced passive soundscapes and statistical algorithms on the dung heap of history. Holon turns listeners into performers and unlocks the musical potential of places.
How to Use:
* Go outside - Holon needs space to function, just like you. Different districts, parks, bridges, shops, street furniture - all contribute to the musical output. Strolling around your apartment or shaking your phone won’t do.
* Put the phone in your pocket or on your dashboard.
* Walk, run, drive - the world is now the interface, space is the machine.
* Use the big button in the middle to power Holon off when not in use - Auditory AR can be a battery-intensive process!
* Optional Apple AirPods support for head-controlled musical interactions!
* Optional Apple Watch support for heart rate-synced music (biofeedback) *the Watch app may take a moment to install*
Requirements:

* Available in over 1000 regions in more than 100 countries.
* Check coverage or request a new area at holonic.systems/holon.
* Best experienced with headphones. Ensure adequate battery level for extended use.
* A data plan is required to access our geospatial engine but use of data is low.
Holon: Become part of the circuit and… Become Sound™
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In-Apps

Movesense Support
$3.99
Apple Watch support
$1.99

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User Rating

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Holon Reviews

Sounds interesting

Gwen110 on

United States

All of a sudden I feel my phone vibrate with a sound that I could only hear if I put my head up to the phone. I wonder if this could be used in the future to talk to people who do not share a language. If I could describe the sound if I may. It was huuuuum dita dita dita dita dit. Then higher huuuuum...dit dit dit. It was almost like I was listening to a humming person.

My background music form now on lol

EC0SMoNauT on

United States

I'm impressed-this app lets you interact with the invisible musical ethereal space within which sound itself awaits papered to be drawn out of the world through the interaction of consciousness and action..... Connect to your loved ones and hear the music echoes of themselves, in realtime? whenever you feel too far distanced!!!!! Awesome!!!

Effortless MiRack integration - pure affordance

jasonpil on

United States

Open up you patch and listen to data streams guide the sounds. A wonderful river of auditory 1’s and 0’s awaits. It’s essential to use this with the holon.ist app and well worth the purchase price.

Fun app but useless for music creation

Kurt52 on

United States

Love playing with the iPhone version, but for sound design it is worthless, no way to get sound out through USB-C. I’d like to route sound to Logic Pro but doesn’t seem possible.

Wow!!! Great app!

bigboom13 on

United States

This app is so unique! I couldn’t find any app quite like this! It’s so cool how you can just move the phone in different ways and make music! I do have a few suggestions though. You should include a manual explaining which way you have to move your arm to make a certain song. That is pretty much the only thing this app needs to become the best Ar music app!

Wow

xJohnnyHx on

United States

Very, very cool concept and execution. Would love Audiobus support.

Very neat

michdavidadams on

United States

I enjoy using this when I don’t feel like listening to my music library but also don’t feel like listening to podcasts or audiobooks. It’s neat noticing how the music changes slightly when my car goes faster or slower. I do wish the music was slightly more pleasant. Many times it sounds unpleasant.

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