We uploaded two new free scenes from Stefan Smulovitz and Martin Brinkmann. And we can’t await Georg Bosch to finish his scene Bouncy, which opens up a whole new playground for RjDj.
Stefan Smulovitz’s new scene is called GranularMemory. It’s the first scene to use granular synthesis. Just tap the screen with two fingers to record one of 6 permanent memories. Touch with one finger to playback a previous memory and mix them togehter. Check out Stefan’s other work on www.kenaxis.com
Martin Brinkmann was attending the sprint in Berlin and catched up really fast on producing RjDj scenes. Most of Martin’s scenes are creating ambient electronic landscapes. In his latest scene add_blips you can add blips of varying length to environmental cuts from the microphone by touching the screen. Tilting the device lets you play with additional FX.
Georg Bosch is working on an amazing scene called Bouncy (see video below). He is putting the graphics functionality further than we thought is possible. We first met Georg at the Berlin sprint where he did Echochamber.
There are a couple of more scenes to show up in the next weeks!
The Music Hack Day is a fabulous initiative from Dave Haynes and James Darling, where geeks, hackers, music lovers and music companies with APIs and tools gather for two days to find new wonderful combinations and ideas. The event takes place at the Guardian Offices on July 11th and 12th.
RjDj will be there with a workshop on how to create reactive music and use data from the RjDj universe. If you’d like to join us, register on the Music Hack Day website, hurry up because tickets will be going fast we hear!
Since our last update a month ago we received about 10000 recordings of crazy RjDj scene mixes (some of them featured above). Thats really great and the crew here in the RjDj land certainly had great fun listening to the highlights ;-) We decided to leave the RjDj album and the RjDj shake free for another 7 days and switch back to paid mode on wednesday the 13th of April.
So anyone who didn’t get it yet… 7 days left, tell your friends and parents too! Get it in the app store and let us know how you re getting on.
Upcomming Weekend Bauhaus-University in Weimar will host a RdDj-Sprint with Frank Barknecht to further explore the possibilities of reactive composition on mobile devices. While the Workshop is aimed at students, the public is welcome to join, but iPhones/iPo touch can only be provided for the students, external participants will have to bring their own devices.
When and where:
Sa. 02. bis Mo. 04.05.2009
Start Sa. 14 Uhr, dann 10-18 Uhr
Marienstraße 7, Raum 204
99423 Weimar
Stefan Smulovitz’s scene is called Time and is a wonderful piece he created together with Viviane Houle. Viviane is a vocalist, improviser and songwriter known for creating a huge array of sounds. The scene is using the touchpad to trigger the vocals. Try it and you will be soon lost in the voice and stories of Viviane.
It seems to me as if Frank was testing the new abilities to include buttons in a scene. He just stretched the idea a bit by putting 256 buttons on it and made them all musical reactive. The result will make you smile!
Chris is the creator of the smashing hits CanOfBeats and GhostWave. This time he stepped back of doing yet another musical craziness. He just simply created a moonboot synthpad. If you are into sawtooth or square waves, rock n roll!
On another front we have also made progress. The RjDj app is featuring a built in webbrowser which is accessible via the RjDj.me tab on the bottom right side. We started to call this part of our app the iApp and it is handling all the scene downloading, recording uploading, your account etc. Last night we updated the iApp and included some useful features
RjDj hosts events called "Sprints" where we gather bright musicians and developers to create RjDj scenes. Want to host a sprint in your city? Contact us at info@rjdj.me!
The RjDj Dev blog is where we share some thoughts and useful things related to iPhone development, audio analysis, django web development and open source code from RjDj. Join the development mailinglist by sending an email to rjdj-dev-request@rjdj.me
Stefan Smulovitz’s new scene is called GranularMemory. It’s the first scene to use granular synthesis. Just tap the screen with two fingers to record one of 6 permanent memories. Touch with one finger to playback a previous memory and mix them togehter. Check out Stefan’s other work on www.kenaxis.com
Martin Brinkmann was attending the sprint in Berlin and catched up really fast on producing RjDj scenes. Most of Martin’s scenes are creating ambient electronic landscapes. In his latest scene add_blips you can add blips of varying length to environmental cuts from the microphone by touching the screen. Tilting the device lets you play with additional FX.
