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Washington, D.C. musicians create a location-aware app-album

by Nicole Villeneuve

So here’s something super nerdy and cool for all of the super cool nerds: a group from Washington, D.C. group named Bluebrain have gone and made an album that writes itself as you walk around to different locations. Make no mistake you guys, we are IN the future!

The album itself is an iPhone app. It only works for the location in which it was made, the National Mall in Washington, D.C. As you walk around the area, the music changes.

One half of Bluebrain, Ryan Holladay, 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.”

The National Mall is the first in a location-based album series, with others in the works for New York’s Prospect Park, and the Highway 1 coast road in California. You can listen to a bit of The National Mall above. [via Wired]