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 Holon info

INSTALLATION

1. Install Holon from the Apple App Store. 

2. Please grant all the requested permissions, the location-based content won’t work otherwise. 

It’s important that you grant the location request “Allow While In Use” or “Always Allow”, when prompted. 

3. Place phone in a pocket, wear headphones and go outdoors. Since the technology relies on GPS (satellite) coverage, you’ll need to be outside for the app to work.

PS. When not using, turn Holon off to conserve battery (press the big button). 

COVERAGE

PLEASE NOTE: Holon only works in the following locations*:

Alexandria

Albuquerque

Almaty

Amsterdam

Antalya

Antibes

Antwerp

Asheville

Athens & Pireas

Atlanta

Auckland

Austin

Bangkok

Barcelona

Bath

Beirut

Bellingham

Bengaluru

Berlin

Berkeley

Bogotá

Bonn

Boston

Bournemouth

Bremen

Brighton

Bristol

Bruges
Brussels

Budapest

Buffalo

Cagliari

Cairo & Giza

Calgary

Cambridge

Canary Islands

Cannes

Cape Town

Cardiff

Cebu City

Chennai

Chester

Chicago

Cluj-Napoca

Cologne

Copenhagen

Coventry

Crawley

Dallas

Denver

Des Moines

Detroit

Dublin

Düsseldorf

Edinburgh

Edmonton

Farnham

Frankfurt

Fuengirola

Gaza strip

Ghent

Gothenburg

Grand Rapids

Groningen

Hebron

Helsinki

Hanoi

Hilversum

Ho Chi Minh City
Hong Kong

Ibiza

Ístanbul

Jakarta

Jericho

Johannesburg

Jyväskylä

Kitchener
Kouvola

Kuala Lumpur

Kyiv 

Lahore

Lahti

Las Vegas

Lausanne

Leeds

Leeuwarden

Leuven

Liège

Lima

Lisbon

Little Rock

Liverpool

London

Los Angeles (Beverly Hills, Downtown, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Compton, Long Beach)

Luxembourg
Madrid

Manchester

Marbella
Medway, UK

Melbourne (CBD)

Memphis

Mexico City

Miami
Milan

Monaco

Montreal

Mumbai

Munich

Namur

Napoli

Nashville

New York City

Nieuwkoop

Nouakchott

Nuuk

Odesa

Okanagan (Kelowna-Penticton-Skaha Lake)

Osaka

Oslo

Oulu

Oxford

Palo Alto

Palermo

Panama City

Pardubice

Paris (Rive Gauche, Louvre, Eiffel)

Perleberg

Perth

Phoenix

Plymouth, UK

Poole

Portland, OR

Portsmouth, UK
Prague

Princeton

Pristina

Quebec City

Qom

Reykjavik

Rome

Rotterdam

Sainte-Anne

San Antonio, TX

San Diego

San Francisco

Seattle
Sevilla

Silicon Valley

Singapore

Sheffield

Squamish
Stafford, UK

St. Louis
Stockholm (City)

Stuttgart

Swansea

Sydney

Taipei

Tallinn

Tampere

Tbilisi

Tel Aviv-Yafo

Tehran

Tempe

Tirana

Tokyo

Toronto

Torremolinos

Trenton

Trieste

Turku
Vancouver BC & Sunshine Coast & Lower Mainland

Waterloo, ON

Whistler

Winnipeg

Yangon

Zürich

*limited coverage, please see map below for details.

Please request coverage of your location by using this form.

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ABOUT HOLON

Holon is an auditory AR app for city-wide, ubiquitous, interactive music that is driven by the activity of listeners and their interactions with the environment. Holon can measure proximity to amenities, such as benches, bins, post boxes, shops, cafes and so on, effectively turning them into musical emitters and modulators. 

 

Requirements are an iPhone and a data plan (amount of data is low). Headphones or in-vehicle audio are needed for perceptual feedback (AirPods Pro recommended with transparency mode). 

 

Holon works best when used passively, by placing the phone in a pocket. This helps the software to detect coupled body movements. The tempo of the music is synchronised to your step rate (this may take 10 seconds of continuous walking to be calculated). 

 

Musical sequences and events are created from geospatial data and environmental data in real time. Directions, time of day and the position of the Sun/Moon all influence the music in various ways. For example, cloud cover can determine the musical scale, while activity/speed might trigger notes. 

Holon is built on the Holonic platform for geospatial musical computing and available as a whitelabel solution for B2B clients. We can now provide a limited number of artists early access to our content tools on request.

Inquiries: info@holonic.systems

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