Bluebrain are a band based in Washington DC and they've got a new album out in iTunes. It comes in the form of a location-aware app and the music will only play if you're in part of a park in the city called The Mall.
Mashable reports that the music app locates you using GPS and your location will trigger different pieces of music in different locations in the park.
“The music changes and evolves based on your chosen path within the park,” says Ryan Holladay. (His brother, Hays, makes up the other half of the outfit.) “To do this, the app uses the phone’s built-in GPS capabilities.” The app features a map of the Mall that shows what locations are tagged with sound.
The album, titled The National Mall, contains about three hours of music that the brothers composed while traipsing around the area. “It was certainly the most amount of exercise I’ve ever gotten while making an album,” Holladay says.
“Unlike a number of other music apps out there, this one isn’t a companion to a normal album or an app that gives you tour dates or things like that,” Holladay says. “It actually is the work itself. The music has been composed to work specifically in this landscape. So, for instance, at the Lincoln Memorial, as you ascend the steps up to the giant statue, the sound of bells increases to the point where, when you are standing at Lincoln’s feet, they are surrounding you.”The brothers are planning to compose similar music apps for other locations.
(Via: Mashable)
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