re:cord

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About this app

Footsteps, breath, heartbeat. Walking is the most primal music the body plays. Since ancient times, people have layered prayer upon this sound. Pilgrims sought the sacred through walking; mountain ascetics walked to become one with nature. Walking has always been prayer, and the sound born from it was a cord binding body and world.

re:cord reconstructs GPS walking data into music in real-time. Walking speed, elevation, heading. These data points determine pitch, tempo, and spatial positioning. Walk slowly, and a gentle melody emerges; stride powerfully, and a dynamic rhythm is born. The walking path becomes grooves, and a record appears. This sound, expanding from center to edge, becomes a cord binding body and world.