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Excerpt from fastcodesign post by John Pavlus:
"Created by D.C.-based band Bluebrain and released as an iPhone app, "The National Mall" is a smartphone app and album whose tracks mutated based on your location.
Nothing against FourSquare or Color, but at this point in our smartphone-powered lives, the phrase "location aware" usually makes me want to run screaming. But the latest album from Bluebrain, a musical duo based on Washington D.C., does seem intriguing: they're releasing it as a smartphone app that uses GPS to track listeners' proximity to landmarks in and around the National Mall, subtly changing the sound of the music in the process. They're calling the app, naturally titled "The National Mall," "the first location-aware album..."
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