We’re preparing for the London RjDj Sprint, and on Friday Oct 2 we’re hosting a release party for the new Kids on DSP application in our London offices. If you’re in London, come by and have drinks with us, we promise some reactive surprises too!

The RjDj sprint we’re hosting during the weekend will be about creating scenes, and even if you can’t attend the whole weekend, you’re most welcome to drop by during Saturday or Sunday. We’ll be doing an introduction to RjDj and reactive music on Saturday 11 am that is open to anyone interested.

As announced earlier we will also have a full sprint in Amsterdam on October 22-23, hosted by Mediamatic and Ookoi

This sprint will start with an introduction to RjDj and reactive music. The main part is about composing your own scenes. If you want to learn how to make music that plays in RjDj, that’s the event to go to. We will start at 14.00 hrs and finish the next day when your RjDj scene is ready for your iPod or iPhone. Note that the sprint takes place right after Music & Bits in Amsterdam, so its definitely worth a trip.

There is a limited number of seats available, so please rsvp on the Mediamatic RjDj Sprint site! Participation is free.

Some impression from the PicNic Sprint:

Thanks again to  Mediamatic and Ookoi for making this sprint possible

We are gonna have a one day sprint at PicNic in Amsterdam on Wednesday 23 September, hosted by Ookoi and Mediamatic.

The morning will be about a general introduction to RjDj and Reactive Music together with Harold Schellinx from Ookoi. In the afternoon max. 20 participants will do a scene composing sprint. You don’t necessarily need tickets for PicNic to vist the sprint! If you don’t have tickets for PicNic you need to do the following:

• Register on the Picnic website
• Create a profile page on the PicNic website
• Register for the RjDj-Sprint Lab
• Come to the Mediamatic lab on the PicNic terrain  (you won’t be able to go to the any other events that day)

Program:

• 10:00 – 12:00 Presentation about RjDj, developing ideas and looking at techniques at the Mediamatic Camp Site. Open to all PicNic visitors (max. 40 people) RSVP .
• 12:00 – 13:00 Break
• 12:30 – 17:00 Develop your own RjDj scene in the Mediamatic Camp Site. Please RSVP separately. This session is open to max. 20 participants.

If you can’t make it this time Mediamatic will offer a full weekend RjDj sprint at their place later this year. We will keep you posted on that. Thanks to Harold Schellinx and Mediamatic for making this sprint possible.

Florian

We finally have the new version of RjDj live, and it supports in app purchase of scenes. Along with a number of free scenes you can download, you can now also purchase scenes through the app.

Give it a try, and if you would like to make and sell music through RjDj, do have a look at our composer tools and get in touch!

Kids on DSP were featured yesterday describing the RjDj format as “a reactive music format that stands out above the rest”. The article appeared after our recent talk at Interesting 09, which featured the 350 strong audience all controlling the Doppelganger scene at once ! It was a truly awesome sound.

The forthcoming Kids on DSP app was also featured recently in the UK newspaper The Guardian. Here Chris Salmon described Kids on DSP as a band set to “genuinely push the boundaries of music… Music doesn’t get much more futuristic, or more fun, than this.”

We are very excited about this release !

Robert

RjDj will be at Music Hack Day in Berlin on September 19-20. We will do a general talk on RjDj and reactive music, and do a small scene composing sprint. If you want to learn how to make music that plays in RjDj, come along to this great event. We’re very happy to join companies like Soundcloud, Ableton, Echonest and many more to make Music Hackday Berlin a great thing.

Music Hack Day is a free event where people hack on music related APIs and tools, and we had a great time at the last one in London. If you’re in or around Berlin, join us for some scene making and reactive music talk!

Check out the event here: Music Hack Day Berlin and note that you need to register to attend even if it’s free!

See you in Berlin! And check out what the last Music Hack Day was like.

Join us for a weekend of exploration of reactive music and augmented audio at the London RjDj sprint. A sprint is a weekend of workshops, lectures and help on the tools for creating reactive music and focused time to work on your own creations. We bring the RjDj team of reactive music composers and developers, refreshments and full access to the roof top RjDj offices in Clerkenwell Road. You bring your ideas for reactive music and augmented audio and any scenes or ideas for scenes you’re working on.

The sprint starts with a release party for the new Kids on DSP reactive minimal techno release!

Saturday and Sunday will be spent in the RjDj offices, and some topics from us include:

• Approaches to creating reactive music
• RjDj Composer tools discussion – what would you want from a reactive music creation software?
• Using Pure Data to create RjDj scenes

Sign up below, and if you have any thoughts or questions feel free to contant Andie Nordgren at andie@rjdj.me.

Feel free to drop by for parts of the sprint, we will be in the offices all weekend talking about and making reactive music.