Holon1.2.9 - App Store

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.

Why Holon Exists:


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.

How to Use:

* Go outside - Holon needs space to function, just like you. Different districts, parks, bridges, shops, street furniture - all contribute to the musical output. Strolling around your apartment or shaking your phone won’t do.
* Put the phone in your pocket or on your dashboard.
* Walk, run, drive - the world is now the interface, space is the machine.
* Use the big button in the middle to power Holon off when not in use - Auditory AR can be a battery-intensive process!
* Optional Apple AirPods support for head-controlled musical interactions!
* Optional Apple Watch support for heart rate-synced music (biofeedback) *the Watch app may take a moment to install*

Requirements:


* Available in over 1000 regions in more than 100 countries.
* Check coverage or request a new area at holonic.systems/holon.
* Best experienced with headphones. Ensure adequate battery level for extended use.
* A data plan is required to access our geospatial engine but use of data is low.

Holon: Become part of the circuit and... Become Sound(TM)

Version History This app has been updated by Apple to prepare for watchOS 27 compatibility. No new features are included.

It's time to say goodbye to Bose AR. This feature was already deprecated when Bose sold the patent to Amazon in 2020. The latest version of Swift does not support this framework anymore. Thanks for showing us the future of musical spatial computing.

Some other dependencies have been updated to the latest version.

We also removed Apple Vision Pro support until we can get it to work properly. 1.2.9 04/18/2025 - Improved responsiveness in automotive mode: Adaptive clock reacts dynamically to slow speeds while discouraging speeding
- New set of miRack-powered musical presets that further demonstrate the geospatial computing features of the Holonic platform!
- Expanded geographical coverage, including all of San Francisco! See current areas at www.holonic.systems/holon and send a request for yours 1.2.8 12/02/2024 - Fixed a bug that caused Holon to close after a while if using Apple Watch.
- Improved scripts
- Extended coverage areas 1.2.7 08/22/2024 Holon's following new features and enhancements are set to elevate your interactive musical journey:

- Reinstated Apple Watch support: Responding to popular demand, Holon now integrates with Apple Watch. Your motion data and biosignals, such as heart rate, are used to influence the music, creating a more personalized and immersive experience. Try pulse sonification biofeedback when stationary! 

- Improved Spatial Intelligence for interactive journeys: Our curated geospatial dataset is updated for more defined and varied interactions. Enjoy new musical responses to various elements, such as road networks, railways, bridges, tunnels, stairs, rivers, canals, paths, trails, cable cars, zip lines, ski lifts, ferry routes and much more!

- Expanded coverage areas: We have vastly increased the number of covered areas, adding new regions and geospatial data points to ensure a richer and more diverse auditory environment.

- Inferred LULC: Advanced Land Use / Land Cover features now work in many more areas. LULC works best in the areas marked red on the map available at holonic.systems/holon.

- Set of 10 all-new Ubiquitous Music presets that showcase geospatial nodes (POIs) and land use in different ways. Powered by miRack!

PLEASE NOTE:

For Holon to work correctly, you'll need to be in one of the 1000 supported regions, see coverage and request yours at: holonic.systems/holon 

Auditory Augmented Reality is a CPU and power intensive task. Ensure you have a full battery and keep the phone cool and well ventilated. To conserve battery, turn Holon off when not in use (swipe up from the bottom of the screen and swipe away the app).

Please send any feedback to info@holonic.systems 1.2.6 06/07/2024 - Fixed missing cables in a couple of patches 1.2.5 11/14/2023 New Presets

- 12 new LULC (Land Use, Land Cover) presets that further showcase the capabilities of the Holonic platform

Musical Spatial Computing: More locations added to the Holonic GIS dataset!

- 20 million tagged POI’s available as musical transmitters or modulator in over 500 areas in 100 countries
- Advanced land use/landcover feature available in over 60 musical smart cities.
- More locations are added continuously, request yours at www.holonic.systems/holon

Thanks to our friends at mifki, we now offer support for user created miRack patches!
- See our editor Holon.ist for more info on user created compositions, or download miRack from mifki 1.2.4 10/24/2023 - Spatial computing system with advanced LULC (Land Use/Land Cover) features: Change the music by going to different types of areas! See availability at www.holonic.systems/holon

- Interact musically with over 15 million nodes from OpenStreetMaps, look out for street furniture, bus stops, fountains, cafés and other POIs (Points Of Interest)

- 19 all-new presets made with the new miRack™ synth engine, exclusively licensed from mifki! Artists can create and share their own presets using the Holon.ist editor app and miRack™

- Social Musical Communication: this beta feature automatically detects other users and incorporates them into your composition. Use the presets marked CU (Closest User), the feature works best in the range 30-10 meters 1.2.3 09/07/2023 - minor fixes
- added cities in description 1.2.1 03/22/2023 - Various fixes in preparation of the next BIG update
- Further holarchic realignment 1.2.0 03/11/2023 - Holon legacy preset is back by popular demand
- Further holarchic realignments 1.1.5 11/13/2022 -Holarchic realignment
-Minor fixes
-New demo presets 1.1.4 10/11/2022 -Holarchic realignment
-Fixed black screen 1.1.2 07/10/2022 -Fix regression on iOS 11, 12 and 13. 1.1.1 09/21/2021 - Support for latest iOS.
- Updated App Privacy settings.
- Other improvements and bug fixes. 1.1.0 08/08/2021 - Minor fixes.
- Stability improvements. 1.0.5 03/17/2021 Support for Movesense 2.0 firmware. 1.0.4 02/11/2021 - Updated App Privacy settings.
- Other minor improvements. 1.0.3 01/30/2021 -Apple AirPods Pro support! Use AirPods Pro to control Holon with your head!
-Other minor fixes. 1.0.2 11/14/2020 Support for Bose AR Beta! Use Bose Frames or Bose AR equipped headphones to change the sound with head movements! Improved location-based Sun and Moon tracking. iOS 13 fixes. Updated onboarding. 1.0.0 04/03/2020 - IAP bug fixed
- Bug fixes for iPad 0.7 01/17/2019 - UI and performance improvements
- Holon.ist demo mode integrations: Try it now with VCV Rack - it connects automatically! Get our free plugin pack from: https://vcvrack.com/plugins.html#holonic 0.6 01/12/2019 - Bonus pro feature: Ableton Link multiuser mode! Try it with other users and connect speakers, or sync your step rate, vehicle speed or heart rate (using Apple Watch Series 2 or newer) with your favourite Link-enabled music apps!
- Minor UI fixes and bugs removed 0.4 11/09/2018 - multi user mode (scale and bpm sync, while one same wifi network. check out Ableton Link and multi user settings under Settings in the main menu)
- various bug fixes and ui improvements 0.2 06/01/2018 0.1 05/25/2018