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“Reaktor allows for complex synthesis not possible on a mobile device, and Holon.ist is a mobile platform that we have used with modular gear and with MIDI synths. “I always felt that Holonic Systems and Native Instruments share the same values and future outlook on the music industry,” Ove says of the partnership. It’s a mouth-watering prospect and an almost inevitable meeting of minds.

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The more immediate future of Holon, however, is the system’s appearance on the Reaktor Blocks platform, with a special free ‘receiver’ Block called Holonic Source now available to partner with the Holon.ist app, thus opening up the vast world of Reaktor instruments, effects and other plug-ins to the input of Holon-type gestures and other data. Someone had the bass line, the tempo was controlled collectively between several users, others just had a rimshot or cowbell. We did a couple of events in Brussels, where clubbers wore sensors and created fairly banging techno by moving and shaking various body parts. “Participants become a physical part of the circuitry, where their feedback contributes to the macrostate of the Holonic system. “In multi-user scenarios, the border between performers, equipment and audience becomes diffuse,” he says. Taking this further, Ove sees Holonic Source leading to performances become an experience that will break down the barriers between performer and audience, something that has certainly been born out in some of the events in which the system has been demoed. This always makes an impact, but our technology can also be about allowing non-musicians, even audiences, to participate in music making.” We also often use gestures with Holon.ist to control lighting, hazers, wind machines and so on.

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“Professional musicians and stage performers can use our software to enhance their shows through ‘action-perception coupling’,” Ove says, “where the audience observes physical movements that correspond with sound, which then enhances the experience and makes it more relatable. Videos of the performances soon went viral on Sonic State, CDM, Synthtopia and Sound On Sound, revealing Holon’s ground-breaking physical human/music relationship and demonstrating the huge performance potential.

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“Traditional instruments can be augmented with sensors – pedals being the most obvious – and amplified instruments can also have different audio effects controlled by the weather, the direction of the sun and movement.”Ī demo of the Holon system made a splash at last year’s Superbooth in Berlin where Ove, Mark and Henri played sounds on a modular synth system, all triggered and modulated by movement with Bluetooth sensors. “Holon.ist can also be used in less dramatic ways,” he adds.

We can now offer users a complete solution to create structurally-coupled biomusic performances or adaptive live compositions that transfer seamlessly from street to studio to stage.” “In trying to solve the problem of making electronic music performances more physically expressive,” Ove says, “we found many new possibilities for intuitive musical interactions. Ove’s original concept was “a synth that was based on physics, but controlled by gestures,” and after forming Holonic Systems with Mark Hakonen-Meddings and Henri David, their first consumer product was Holon which utilizes their mobile platform Holon.ist to trigger sounds with human movement, all via physical sensors. Holonic Systems was born out of a frustration with live electronic music performances by CEO Ove Holmqvist, who envisaged bringing more visual and interactive aspects to the stage.