Holon coverage and usage
Holon installation and usage
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. iPad is not recommended unless it's a Cellular + GPS equipped model.
PS. When not using, turn Holon off to conserve battery (press the big button).
PLEASE NOTE: Holon only works in the following locations:
LULC coverage: Americas
Brazil •Recife Canada •Abbotsford •Agassiz •Gibsons •Guelph •Kingston •Langley •Nanaimo •Montreal •Regina •Robert's Creek •Sechelt •Squamish •Surrey •Toronto •Vancouver •Victoria •Whistler •White Rock •Winnipeg Chile •Valdivia Colombia •Medellín Mexico •Monterrey •Tulum United States •Asheville •Bakersfield, CA •Baton Rouge •Buffalo, NY •Burbank, CA •Dallas, TX •Delaware City •Detroit •Glendale, CA •Houston, TX •Kansas City •Knoxville •Las Vegas •Los Angeles •Little Rock •Marfa, TX •Memphis •NYC (Manhattan & Brooklyn) •Omaha, NE •Pasadena, CA •Princeton, NJ •San Luis Obispo •Santa Clarita •Santa Fe •San Francisco •Santa Monica •Seattle •St. Louis •Tujunga, CA
LULC coverage: Europe, Middle East, Africa
Belgium •Antwerp •Brussels •Ghent Côte d'Ivoire •Abidjan Egypt •Cairo •Sharm El-Sheikh Finland •Helsinki •Joensuu •Jyväskylä •Kouvola •Kuopio •Mariehamn •Oulu •Tampere France •Amiens •Antibes •Le Mans •Paris Germany •Berlin •Darmstadt •Dortmund •Giessen •Kamen •Kassel •Mörfelden-Walldorf Greece •Corinth Italy •Bassano del Grappa •Cagliari •Livorno •Rimini •Rome •Turin •Venice Kosovo •Pristina Latvia •Riga Lebanon •Beirut Liechtenstein •Vaduz Morocco •Rabat Norway •Bergen •Tromsö •Trondheim Romania •Bucharest •Cluj-Napoca Spain •Barcelona •Benidorm •Fuengirola •Lanzarote •Marbella Sweden •Linköping •Malmö •Uppsala •Visby Switzerland •Lausanne •Montreaux •Vevey •Villars-sur-Ollon Ukraine •Lviv •Kyiv United Kingdom •Bognor Regis •Bristol •Broadstairs •Egham •Farnham •London •Margate •Newcastle-upon-Tyne •Portsmouth •Ramsgate •Sheffield •Stafford
POI coverage: Americas
Aruba •Oranjestad Barbados •Bridgetown Belize •Belize City Brazil •Belo Horizonte •Lagoa Santa •São Paulo Canada •Agassiz •Abbotsford •Burlington •Calgary •Chatham, ON •Chilliwack •Coquitlam •Edmonton •Gibsons •Guelph •Hamilton •Harrison Hot Springs •Kelowna •Kitchener •Langley •London •Missisauga •Montreal •Nanaimo •Naramata •Niagaran Falls •Okanagan Falls •Ottawa •Peachland •Penticton •Quebec City •Regina •Robert's Creek •Sechelt •Squamish •St. Catharines •Summerland •Vancouver •Victoria •Waterloo •Whistler •White Rock •Winnipeg Colombia •Bogotá Chile •Santiago Cuba •Camaguey •Havana •Santiago de Cuba Ecuador •Cuenca •Guayaquil •Quito El Salvador •San Salvador Jamaica •Kingston Guadeloupe •Sainte-Anne Mexico •Cancún •Chihuahua •Ciudad Juárez •Guadalajara •Mexico City •Merida •Monterrey •San Cristobal de las Casas •Tijuana •Tulum •Tuxla Gutiérrez Panama •Panama City Peru •Lima United States •Akron •Albuquerque •Ann Arbor •Asheville •Atlanta, GA •Augusta, GA •Austin •Baltimore •Bartow County •Baton Rouge •Bellingham •Berkeley, CA •Boca Raton •Boise •Boston •Bridgeport, CT •Buffalo, NY •Burbank, CA •Charlotte •Charlotta Amalie •Chicago •Cincinnati •Cleveland •Columbus •Dallas •Davis •Dayton •Denver •Des Moines •Detroit •Eugene •Fort Lauderdale •Fort Worth •Fremont •Fresno •Grand Rapids •Half Moon Bay •Hartford •Honolulu •Houston •Indianapolis •Irvine •Jackson •Jacksonville •Kansas City •Key West •Knoxville •Las Vegas •Little Rock •Long Island •Los Angeles •Louisville •Memphis •Merritt Island •Miami •Milwaukee •Minneapolis •Monroe •Monterey •Nashville •New Orleans •New York City •Norfolk •Norman •Norwalk •Oakland •Ocean City •Oklahoma City •Orlando •Palo Alto •Palm Beach •Pasadena •Philadelphia •Phoenix •Pittsburgh •Portland, ME •Portland, OR •Providence •Puerto Rico •Redmond, OR •Rochester, NY •Richmond, VA •Sacramento •Salem •Salt Lake City •San Antonio •San Diego •San Fernando •San Francisco •San Jose •Santa Barbara •Santa Clarita •Santa Cruz •Santa Fe •Santa Rosa •Seattle •Selbyville •Silicon Valley •Spokane •Stamford •St. Louis •Stockton •St. Paul •Sunnyvale •Syracuse, NY •Tacoma •Tampa •Tempe •Toledo •Trenton •Tucson •Tulsa •Walnut Creek, CA •Washington DC
POI coverage: Europe
Albania •Tirana Belgium •Antwerp •Bruges •Brussels •Ghent •Leuven •Liége •Namur Bulgaria •Sofia Croatia •Pula •Rijeka •Zagreb Cyprus •Limassol •Nikosia Czech Republic •Brno •Pardubice •Prague Denmark •Aalborg •Aarhus •Copenhagen •Roskilde •Viborg Estonia •Pärnu •Tallinn Finland •Espoo •Helsinki •Kouvola •Lahti •Mariehamn •Oulu •Tampere •Turku •Vantaa France •Amiens •Anglet •Antibes •Arcueil •Auray •Bayonne •Bergerac •Béziers •Biarritz •Bordeaux •Boulogne-Billancourt •Brest •Brétigny-sur-Orge •Cambo-les-Bains •Cannes •Carcassonne •Carvin •Créteil •Épinal •Évry •Grenoble •Hendaye •La Rochelle •Laval •Lens •Le Sables-d'Olonne •Lille •Lunel •Lyon •Marseille •Melun •Montpellier •Nancy •Paris •Pontoise •Porto-Vecchio •Rennes •Rouen •Saint-Étienne •Saint-Jean-de-Luz •Saint-Pierre-du-Mont •Saint-Tropez •Strasbourg •Toulouse •Versailles Germany •Aachen •Berlin •Bielefeld •Bochum •Bonn •Bremen •Chemnitz •Cologne •Darmstadt •Dortmund •Dresden •Duisburg •Essen •Frankfurt •Hanover •Kamen •Kassel •Konstanz •Leiptzig •Munich •Mönchengladbach •Neuss •Perleberg •Stuttgart •Viersen •Wetzlar Greece •Athens •Pireas •Thessaloniki Greenland •Nuuk Hungary •Budapest Iceland •Reykjavik Ireland •Cork •Dublin Italy •Bassano del Grappa •Bologna •Cagliari •Catanzaro •Cosenza •Florence •Livorno •Milano •Napoli •Palermo •Rimini •Rome •Trieste •Venice •Verano Kosovo •Gjakova •Pristina •Prizren Latvia •Daugavspils •Liepāja •Riga •Ventspils Lithuania •Kaunas •Klaipėda •Panevėžys •Šiauliai •Vilnius Luxembourg •Luxembourg Monaco •Monte Carlo Netherlands •Amsterdam •Arnhem •Apeldoorn •Breda •Eindhoven •Groningen •Haarlem •Heerlen •Hilversum •Hoenderloo •Leeuwarden •Leuven •Nieuwkoop •The Hague •Tilburg •Rotterdam •'s-Hertogenbosch •Utrecht North Macedonia •Skopje •Tetovo Norway •Bergen •Oslo •Tromsø •Trondheim Poland •Gdansk •Łódź •Poznan •Warsaw Portugal •Lisbon •Porto Romania •Bistrita •Cluj-Napoca •Timisoara Slovakia •Bratislava Slovenia •Ljubljana Spain •Alicante •Almeria •Andoain •Barcelona •Benidorm •Bilbao •Canary Islands •Cartagena •Donostia-San Sebastian •Fuengirola •Gijon •Ibiza •Irun •Madrid •Marbella •Mataró •Sabadell •Sevilla •Terrassa •Torremolinos •Torrevieja •Valencia •Zarautz Sweden •Gothenburg •Linköping •Stockholm •Sundsvall •Uppsala Switzerland •Basel •Bern •Geneva •Lausanne •La Chaux-de-Fonds •Lucern •Montreaux •Neuchâtel •Villars-sur-Ollon •Zürich Ukraine •Chernihiv •Dnipro •Kharkiv •Khmelnytskyi •Kyiv •Lviv •Odesa •Poltava •Zhytomyr United Kingdom •Aylesbury •Basingstoke •Barnstaple •Bath •Bedford •Belfast •Birmingham •Bognor Regis •Bournemouth •Broadstairs •Brighton •Bristol •Cambridge •Canterbury •Cardiff •Chester •Coventry •Crawley •Derby •Durham •Edinburgh •Egham •Farnham •Glasgow •Leeds •Leicester •Liverpool •London •Manchester •Mansfield •Margate •Medway •Middlesbrough •Milton Keynes •Newark-on-Trent •Newcastle upon Tyne •Norwich •Nottingham •Oxford •Plymouth •Poole •Portsmouth •Ramsgate •Sheffield •Southend-on-Sea •Stafford •Stoke-on-Trent •Swansea •Torquay •Winsford •Wolverhampton
POI coverage: Australia & Oceania
Australia •Adelaide •Melbourne •Perth •Sydney Line Islands •Kiritimati New Zealand •Auckland •Wellington •Christchurch •Blenheim •Nelson
POI coverage: Asia
Azerbaijan •Baku Cambodia •Phnom Penh •Siem Reap China •Guangzhou •Shanghai •Shenzhen •Hong Kong •Xi’an Georgia •Batumi •Tbilisi India •Agra •Ahilyanagar •Ahmedabad •Amritsar •Bengaluru •Chennai •Coimbatore •Guwahati •Hubballi •Hyderabad •Indore •Jaipur •Lucknow •Ludhiana •Mumbai •New Delhi •Panaji •Pune •Shimla •Visakhapatnam Indonesia •Denpasar •Jakarta •Surabaya Iran •Qom •Tehran Iraq •Baghdad Japan •Fukuoka •Hamamatsu •Oita •Osaka •Saitama •Tokyo Kazakhstan •Almaty •Astana •Karaganda Malaysia •Kuala Lumpur •Shah Alam Myanmar •Yangon Pakistan •Islamabad •Karachi •Lahore Philippines •Cebu City •Dagupan •Manila •Quezon City Singapore •Singapore South Korea •Incheon •Seoul •Siheung •Uijeongbu-si Taiwan •Kaohsiung City •Taichung City •Tainan City •Taipei Thailand •Bangkok •Chiang Mai Türkiye •Antalya •Istanbul Vietnam •Da Nang •Dalat •Haiphong •Hanoi •Ho Chi Minh City •Hue •Pleiku •Quảng Trị
POI coverage: Africa & Middle East
Côte d'Ivoire •Abidjan Democratic Republic of the Congo •Kinshasa Djibouti •Djibouti Egypt •Alexandria •Cairo & Giza •Sharm El-Sheikh Israel •Tel Aviv-Yafo •Holon Lebanon •Beirut Mauritania •Nouakchott Morocco •Rabat Nigeria •Lagos Oman •Muscat Palestine •Gaza Strip •Hebron •Jericho •Rafah Republic of the Congo •Brazzaville Saudi Arabia •Jeddah •Riyadh South Africa •Cape Town •Johannesburg •Pretoria Tanzania •Dar es Salaam Qatar •Doha Uganda •Kampala
LULC coverage: Asia
China •Beijing •Dali •Macau India •Ahmedabad •Hyderabad Indonesia •Denpasan Japan •Nagoya •Tokyo Kazakhstan •Almaty Korea •Cheonan-si •Incheon •Jeonju-si •Seoul •Siheung •Uijeongbu-si Pakistan •Islamabad Thailand •Chiang Mai Vietnam •Hanoi
About Holon
Holon is an auditory AR app for city-wide, ubiquitous, adaptive 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. Urban morphology (e.g. Land Use/Land Cover) can subtly influence or radically transform the experience in supported areas.
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/Max recommended with transparency mode).
Musical sequences and events are created from geospatial data and environmental data in real time. Location type, 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, available as a white-label solution for B2B clients. We can now provide artists early access to our content tools. Visit https://holon.ist/manual/#mirack for more information.
Inquiries: info@holonic.systems