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Dolby's Floating City

BLINDING US WITH TECHNOLOGY: Thomas Dolby, the musician and forward thinker best known for the hit, “She Blinded Me With Science” and as co-inventor of the Beatnik polyphonic ringtone engine, has announced his latest creation. The Floating City is a rich, music discovery-based transmedia game with a living world that changes and reacts to player contributions thr0ugh web browsers, social networks, smart phones and iPads. The free site, open for registration today at www.floatingcity.com, commences gameplay June 22 at 1 p.m. (ET) and 5 p.m. (GMT). Players from around the world form tribes and collaborate to earn free music downloads, merchandise and concert tickets. The leading tribe earns the right to stage a private concert at which Thomas Dolby and his band will perform his forthcoming album in its entirety. Diehard Dolby fans will notice that the site integrates characters, places and objects named in every one of his albums going back to the beginning of his career . . . and before. (6/22p)

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