NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
NYT-1201: STATE OF THE ART A Thermostat That's Clever, Not ...
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onto, to improve and compress the program.<br />
“We didn’t want something to sound like a machine,<br />
” Mr. Feldman said. “We wanted it to sound like th<br />
ese guys were conducting an orchestra and watching<br />
where you are walking.”<br />
For Central Park the Holladays went for a classica<br />
l feeling. The melodies are mostly stately, slow m<br />
arches played on strings or the piano, usually inv<br />
olving a simple two- or four-chord progression, wi<br />
th some electronic chirps, loops and ambient sound<br />
s added in the higher registers or rumbling beneat<br />
h the melody.<br />
Josh Stewart, a 25-year-old publicist, who writes<br />
a blog about alternative music, was recently part<br />
of a group of 100 Bluebrain fans who came up from<br />
Washington to New York by chartered bus to try the<br />
new app.<br />
At the Lake, Mr. Stewart recalled, he heard paddle<br />
s in water keeping time to a string melody and had<br />
to take off the headphones to make sure the swish<br />
ing rhythm was on the recording and not coming fro<br />
m boaters.<br />
“You are walking around, and you are experiencing<br />
the park in your own way, and the music is kind of<br />
adapting to you,” he said. “I have never experien<br />
ced anything else like that.”<br />
The Holladay brothers grew up in Virginia, but say<br />
they fell in love with Central Park when they wer<br />
e going to college in New York in the late 1990s,<br />
Ryan at New York University and Hays at Columbia.<br />
While still students, they formed a five-piece ele<br />
ctro-pop band, the Epochs, and made two albums bef<br />
ore disbanding in 2008. In New York they were infl<br />
uenced by the works of the avant-garde composer Ph<br />
il Kline and participated in his boom-box walks in<br />
Greenwich Village, during which dozens of people