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The Silicon Valley start-up OnLive is introducing software to bring the power of its game service to mobile devices via so-called cloud computing. NYT-1208 White House Pushes Vote on Consumer Agency Chief .. . By EDWARD WYATT President Obama is trying to sway enough Republica n Senators to allow a vote on the nomination of Ri chard Cordray to head the Consumer Financial Prote ction Bureau. NYT-1208 Cellphones Test Strength of Gym Rules ... By CATHER INE SAINT LOUIS The versatility of smartphones is a challenge to g yms, who seek to block users who want to make a ca ll, text or send e-mail. NYT-1208 Central Park, the Soundtrack ... By JAMES C. McKINL EY Jr. The music duo Bluebrain created Central Park (List en to the Light), an app responding to a strolling visitor's location and movements. ===== notyet Clamp on headphones, start up the iPhone app by th e musical duo Bluebrain and walk into Central Park . The music does not begin until you pass through an entrance and head into the trees. Then it sound s like an orchestra tuning up, a chaotic jumble of wind chimes, electronic moans and discordant stri ngs. Push farther into the park, and a sweet violi n melody emerges over languid piano chords. As you walk, new musical themes hit you every 20 o r 30 steps, as if they were emanating from statues , playgrounds, open spaces and landmarks. At the B ethesda Fountain a string quartet plays a hopeful march. The Kerbs Boathouse, with its tranquil pond full of model sailboats, triggers a soothing Pach elbel-like motif with a descending bass. Strolling
across Sheep Meadow you hear a pastoral piano the me with a bubbling undercurrent of electronic arpe ggios. The themes layer over one another, growing in volu me as you approach certain points on the map and f ading out as you move away. It’s a musical Venn di agram placed over the landscape, and at any time y ou might have two dozen tracks playing in your ear s, all meshing and colliding in surprising ways. T he path you take determines what you hear, and the biggest problem with what the composers call a “l ocation-aware album” is that you may get blisters on your feet trying to hear it all. “It’s like a choose-your-own-adventure album,” sai d Ryan Holladay, who forms this Washington electro -pop duo with his brother Hays. They released the app, called Central Park (Listen to the Light), for the iPhone and iPad in October . The app is free, but the brothers hope the music al format will become a commercially viable medium . It uses a global positioning network to activate different themes as the listener wanders through the park. The app contains more than 400 tracks, e ach tied to a location. They were written to fit t ogether harmonically like a sonic jigsaw puzzle. The Holladays are not the only musicians harnessin g such technology on iPhones, iPads and their imit ators. Bjork turned her most recent album, “Biophi lia,” into an audio-visual game of sorts for the i Phone, letting listeners rearrange and mix musical elements on some songs. A few others have experimented with music shaped b y the listener’s movements. In 2006 Jesse Stiles a nd Melissa St. Pierre of the Baltimore musical gro up Face Removal Services hitched a car’s global po sitioning system to a computer containing hundreds of dance beats on loops and created what they cal
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