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.
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