We’re entering the last week of the AIR recording contest. Last week’s winner is user oorwullie who had the most played recording in the contest last week. Think you can do better? The overall winner of an iPod Touch is selected by AIR and RjDj, and will be announced next monday. Record with Love by AIR and submit to the contest after uploading!
On Saturday, March 13, Magnitude Music and The iPhone App Ensemble are playing at the Shoreditch Church in London. The iPhone App Ensemble fuses free improviations, minimal pop and found sounds using iPhone sound creation apps. On of the players, Adam Parkinson, is using RjDj scenes to controle granular synthesisers and other sound generators using the built-in tilt sensors.
Atau plays the biomuse, which captures physiological neuron impulses resulting from muscle tension, using it to control samples and synthesis in Max MSP. Adam is playing on two iPods running RjDj.
With the latest release of RjDj, we are now supporting a new type of interaction in scenes: Pages.
Pages are a way for the listener to easily trigger different states in a scene. A great example is the scene Love by AIR, and today we’re releasing it in the RjDj Store. The scene has 5 pages that present different parts of the reactive version of AIR’s Love track.
We are also supporting paging in our authoring tool, the RJC1000. This means, if you are a producer or musician you can now easily create paged RjDj scenes like the AIR scene.
(You can also get the full Love by AIR application that has more from AIR and support for sending your recording to someone special with some really nice email templates.)
We are also releasing two new scenes from Kids on DSP that take advantage of the new paging feature.
… a core dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed)… Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes.
This scene is a collaboration with Carl Craig and features his track Landcruising. Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes! On page one you can move through reality backwards in real-time. Experience reality as a beautiful chord in page two. Page three picks up percussive noises and puts them into beats. Sounds become melodies all around on page four.
You can find these scenes in the Store tab in RjDj. You need to be updated to the latest version of the RjDj app to play these scenes!
We will be at the Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) on March 13th. The sprint starts at 10am with a general introduction before we move on to work on individual scenes. We will also bring along our brand new scene production suite RJC-1000 – which makes it easier than ever before to create your own RjDj scenes. Check out more details on the MadLab site here.
The rough structure for the day is as follows:
Overall presentation of RjDj and the concepts of reactive music
Short introduction into Pure data
How to create RjDj scenes and get them on iPhones/iPods
The most played recording that was also part of the contest last week was this short piece. Please note that you need to claim your name in the application to be eligible for a price in the contest! Submit your recording to the contest and spread it far and wide to join the others competing for AIR prizes and an iPod Touch for the overall winner!
Put yourself into this dynamic remix version of “Mechanics & Mathematics”, the title track from Venus Hum’s latest recording. Hear a different version every time you listen. Speak, sing and make noise while Annette is singing to create harmonies. When Annette is not singing, your own sounds become the groove. Tilting forward and back changes the groove intensity. Rotating left or right brings the music down so your creativity is front and center.
Venus Hum is consisting of vocalist Annette Strean, multi-instrumentalist Tony Miracle, and film-maker Kip Kubin, Their new record, Mechanics & Mathematics, continues the mission to marry pop songs with strange electronic sound. Venus Hum is also about to release a Mechanics & Mathematics concert DVD. Check out www.venushum.com. The band developed and programmed the scene together with Chuck Wiggins.
We really wanted to see what you can do with the new scene Love by AIR, so we’ve decided to run a little contest for the best Love recording. Get the Love by AIR application, use it to communicate to the world who you love, and submit it to the contest by sharing it and following the instructions after the upload. There are some sweet AIR related prices each week, and the overall winner takes home an iPod Touch. (that you can get engraved with something wonderful and give to someone you appreciate, or keep it yourself of course.)
Last minute Valentine’s crisis? We’re putting our new Love by AIR app for sale for 24 hours to help you out. This is your chance to send an individual and personal love song based on AIR’s love song to someone you care for. Love by AIR now available for only 99 cents in the App Store.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, RJDJ has teamed up with the French music duo Air to launch a new reactive music app based on their hit single “Love.”
Air duo, Nicolas Godin and Jean-Benoît Dunckel, worked with RJDJ to create five, real-time “soundscapes” that enable fans to listen to “Love” in a new way, as an exclusive app only version.
Now music fans can use the iPhone and iPod touch to experience their personal version of “Love” just by putting on their headsets and singing or speaking into the microphone or just listening to the world through Air’s soundscapes. Using the app, Air fans and romantics alike can record their love message and send Valentine’s Day dedications to their loved ones via email, Facebook and Twitter.
With the simple swipe of a finger, fans can access the five different reactive soundscapes that present “Love” in a different way.
Chanter – puts your voice in the music, letting you sing, speak or add your own sounds into the mix
Harmonie - vocodes sounds in realtime and makes them harmonise with the music
Papillon – samples tiny segments of sounds and creates audio butterflies from them, flying around inside the music
Voler – creates a rising texture of sound by sampling reality and layering / filtering them with the music
Voyage – takes you on a musical journey through all of the soundscapes
We thought we would try to start doing a podcast to showcase some of the great recordings people are making with RjDj. Hopefully we will produce a new episode relatively frequently and also include news, interviews with scene producers as well as recording makers and other features about RjDj and the reactive music universe ! If you are a scene maker or enthusiastic RjDj user and would like to be on the podcast we would love to hear from you at info(at)rjdj(d0t)me.
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!
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