We have just turned the RjDj application to free again, since Apple just made in-app purchase avaliable to free apps. Enjoy!

Huge thing for us. You can now download the RjDj player for free and you can download either free or payed scenes within the app…. This is what we were waiting for since apple switched on in app purchases and we think it is a critical factor to make the RjDj ecosystem work. Congratulations to apple. It is certainly a step into the right direction and we hope you like it too ;-)

And a little message from the RjDj crew:

Recorded from CanOfBeats. Check out more recordings from CanOfBeats…

We have six new scenes available! Four from Martin Brinkmann, Project Icarus from  ookoi, and WindWalker from Chuck Wiggins.

On the PicNic Sprint in Amsterdam ookoi finished a scene called Project Icarus. The scene is based on ookoi’s original soundtrack for Dick Tuinder’s feature film “Winterland” (2009).

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Martin Brinkmann produced four new scenes! His latest works are: readymade, go on, r n s , and droneplay1. One astonishing thing about Martin’s scenes is that they are completely synthesized on the device. They use no soundfiles at all, its all done on your phone in realtime. Thats pretty amazing, especially if you think of the early days of synthesizers.

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Chuck Wiggins made another scene called WindWalker. You can harness the wind by moving and shaking. Try taking a walk and putting the device at various angles.

Florian

It’s been really great to be part of the discussion of reactive music across the web on numerous social networks. We felt like it would be beneficial to create a place where the experience and creation of reactive music could be discussed, both in relation to RjDj and beyond – so we have created a reactive music forum for just that !

Aside from facilitating a wider discussion, we are particularly excited about how this discussion could help us focus our composer tools development process to create the software you need and want to create amazing reactive music. These composer tools are distributed for free here.

When you log in you should be able to use your normal RjDj account so there is no need to register again. If you don’t have a RjDj account yet you can create one here. See you in the forums !

Rob

This weekend was RjDj London sprint weekend. We had some great discussions and sessions with enthusiastic scene creators and people interested in RjDj both for musical uses and other uses such as augmented reality applications. It’s going to be fascinating to see what stuff they create.

We are making progress on the development of non linear musical structures for scenes too. Robin Renwick did some great work on a forking musical structures for his scene. Look out for it being released on RjDj soon !

We had a great time last Friday evening hosting the Kids on DSP reactive album iPhone application launch party. The kids did a live set that included audio sampling from 5 mics located around the space, as well as a skype in option where party guests ( or anyone – as we advertised it on twitter ) could dial into the mix and have their voices reactively control the music. It was a wild effect ! Someone mentioned there was a recording of it somewhere, so hopefully that may surface soon …

The app has now been featured in the UK app store and iTunes store. Wagner James Au has done a nice review of it on the appleblog.com and @revdancat did a good interview here. Prior to release it was also covered by The Guardian newspaper in the UK and by MTV.

For almost two nice September weeks RjDj has been spreading the message of the reactive music revolution in Japan. Invited by the Tokyo Max User Group RjDj was part of the APMT design festival, did two sprints and a presentation with some scene live coding madness at the super-hip “Super Deluxe” club. Read more…

The Kids hit the APP store!! Augmented Reality Reactive Minimal Techno Madness just a click away.

Ladies and gentleman, we are proud to present the latest child in the RjDj family: The Kids on DSP app is out from today 2nd of october 2009. Almost one year after RjDj’s initial launch, the Kids on DSP mark a remarkable progress in how reactive music can sound. The Kids app is the logical progression from RjDj oldies such as “Echolon” and “Worldquantizer”  and at the same time embeds those first experimental approaches into an unparalleled holistic musical experience.

London based Kids on DSP worked closely with artists such as Carl Craig and Acid Pauli. The application features 8 scenes which all play in the reactive minimal techno domain with a twist on microphone input. Read more about the app here.