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=> GENERAL DISCUSSION => Topic started by: kosmo vinyl on May 28, 2011, 08:22:01 am
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http://www.wired.com/underwire/2011/05/national-mall-location-aware-album/
Two musicians from Washington, D.C., who go by the name Bluebrain have put together a location-aware album called The National Mall.
It comes in the form of an iPhone app, which you download to your handset and then open up while you?re standing in the National Mall ? the green space between the Lincoln Memorial and Capitol building. As you move around the area, the music changes.
?For example,? Ryan Holladay, one half of Bluebrain, told Wired.co.uk, ?Approach a lake and a piano piece changes into a harp. Or, as you get close to the children?s merry-go-round, the wooden horses come to life and you hear sounds of real horses getting steadily louder based on your proximity.?
It?ll be available soon on Apple?s App Store, and iPad and Android versions will follow in time.
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Chris Richard's Click Track post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/click-track/post/bluebrain-make-magic-with-the-worlds-first-location-aware-album/2011/05/28/AGSVQSDH_blog.html) is even better reading.
I've downloaded/installed the beast (nearly 400MB) but listening will have to wait until next weekend. If the forecast holds, the weather should be beautiful.