Holonic Systems

Holonic Systems builds music applications for artists, enthusiasts, consumers and corporate customers. Its work draws on physical computing and participatory design. The resulting music can serve as feedback for artistic, personal or commercial use.

What Holonic Systems does

• Holon: a consumer app that produces interactive synth music from a user's movement, position and environmental data, with no screen interaction needed.
• Holon.ist: a mobile authoring platform where experienced users map physical events, places and connected-device data to sound.
• Wearable support: the authoring tool works with a range of wearable devices.

Customers and markets

The products suit performers and composers as well as people of varying musical ability who want to take part in music-making through movement.

Key facts

• Approach: affective design and physical computing
• Inputs used: weather, time of day and location data
• Website status: the company site currently says an update is in progress