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
Amsterdam
Antalya
Antibes
Antwerp
Athens & Pireas
Atlanta
Auckland
Austin
Barcelona
Bath
Beirut
Berlin
Berkeley
Bonn
Bournemouth
Bremen
Brighton
Bristol
Bruges
Brussels
Buffalo
Cairo & Giza
Calgary
Cambridge
Canary Islands
Cannes
Cape Town
Cardiff
Cebu City
Chennai
Chicago
Cologne
Copenhagen
Coventry
Crawley
Dallas
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Dublin
Düsseldorf
Edinburgh
Farnham
Frankfurt
Fuengirola
Ghent
Gothenburg
Helsinki
Hanoi
Hilversum
Ho Chi Minh City (District 1)
Hong Kong
Ibiza
Ístanbul
Jakarta
Johannesburg
Kitchener
Kouvola
Kuala Lumpur
Kyiv
Lahore
Lahti
Lausanne
Leeds
Leuven
Liège
Lima
Lisbon
London (Central, Chelsea, City, Olympic, Alexandra Palace, Southwest)
Los Angeles (Beverly Hills, Downtown, Hollywood, Santa Monica, Compton, Long Beach)
Luxembourg
Madrid
Manchester
Medway, UK
Melbourne (CBD)
Mexico City
Miami
Milan
Monaco
Montreal
Mumbai
Munich
Namur
Nieuwkoop
Nouakchott
New York City (Manhattan)
Nouakchott
Nuuk
Odesa
Okanagan (Kelowna-Penticton-Skaha Lake)
Osaka
Oslo
Oulu
Oxford
Palo Alto
Panama City
Pardubice
Paris (Rive Gauche, Louvre, Eiffel)
Perleberg
Perth
Phoenix
Plymouth
Poole
Portland, OR
Prague
Quebec City
Qom
Reykjavik
Rome
Rotterdam
San Diego
San Francisco
Seattle
Sevilla
Silicon Valley
Sheffield
Stafford, UK
Stockholm (City)
Stuttgart
Swansea
Sydney
Tallinn
Tampere
Tbilisi
Tel Aviv-Yafo
Tehran
Tirana
Tokyo (Shinjuku, Shibuya, Chiyoda)
Toronto
Torremolinos
Trieste
Turku
Vancouver BC & Sunshine Coast
Waterloo, ON
*limited coverage, please see map below for details.
Please request coverage of your location by using this form.
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