Holonic Systems Oy have reduced the price of Holon.ist, Holon and Holon in-app purchases for a limited time.
- Holon.ist – $9.99 (usually $12.99
- Holon – $0.99 (usually $1.99)
- Apple Watch support IAP – FREE (usually $1.99)
- Movesense support IAP – FREE (usually $3.99)
Holon
Holon transforms your world into a synth. This is not about lame soundscapes or pseudo-science productivity hacks. It’s the future of music – powered by you, not an AI!
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.
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.
Holon.ist
Holonist is a musical spatial computing tool that integrates sensors with OSC mappings to create custom sonic interactions and data-driven music experiences.
Holon.ist lets you create immersive geospatial musical interactions and physical computing experiences by mapping sensor data and real-world signals into OSC and MIDI CC messages.
Holon.ist is also the companion app to Holon. Together, they turn audiences into perfomers and performers into composers.
Holon.ist offers unprecedented control over the musical environment, providing a tool for performers, composers, sound artists, VJs and lighting designers to create interactive, data-driven music experiences.
Features include:
- Sensor Data Mapping: Use Holon.ist to map data from a range of inputs, including the iPhone’s built-in sensors, supported wearables, and external devices, to OSC and MIDI messages. This makes it possible to create interactive music that responds to your movements and environment.
- Physical Computing: Holon.ist supports physical computing with wearables, enabling the use of real-world signals to control musical parameters with functional feedback. This can be used in performance settings, installations, and other interactive environments.
- Apple Watch Support: Enhanced support for Apple Watch allows you to synchronize your heart rate with Ableton Link, providing a seamless connection between physical state and musical output.
- Apple AirPods 3/Pro/Max: Use earbuds as head tracking controllers and use nods and turns as accompanying musical gestures and modulations.
- Movesense Smart Sensors: Holon.ist supports up to 6 Movesense smart sensors per device, enabling you to incorporate a wide range of biometric and motion data into sonified choreographies.
- Geospatial Interactions: Define geospatial interactions by mapping locations such as Points Of Interest (POI) and Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) data to musical parameters. This feature allows for the creation of interactive scores that evolve as you navigate through different environments. Holonic geospatial interactions are currently enabled in over 1000 global regions. Please see the coverage map at http://www.holonic.systems/holon
- Embedded miRack Engine: Holon.ist features the same embedded miRack virtual modular system as Holon, allowing you to synthesize sound in miRack and create complex musical interactions based on real-time data in Holon.ist. Holonic patches created in miRack can be shared with anyone that has the free Holon app. Mapping and patch templates are available for Holonic geospatial preset creation.
- Data Recording: For convenient data mapping, first record performances, rehearsals or tests, then play back the data streams and refine synthesis parameters and mappings.
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