We finally managed to jump over the big pond and will land in New York with the premier of our new child the RJC1000 on the 11th of December and an RjDj workshop on the 12th of December. Both events will be kindly hosted by our friends at Eyebeam. So all you RjDj lovers in New York, it would be great meeting you at the first Reactive Music Experience in New York.

The RJC1000 is our top secret project that we were working on for the last couple of months and which we will release soon. We will present the software on the 11th and also play it live on the event. This is good news for everyone interested in creating his own RjDj scenes. In the workshop on the 12th of december we will also give deeper insights into how to use PD to create RjDj scenes.

Check out the New York experience page for more details about the event

After collaborating with the Kids on DSP for Urban25 acclaimed German artist Acid Pauli (Console, The Notwist) is back with two new scenes: Nymbiotic and Symbiotic.

Both scenes use microphone and touch-screen, the mic has a heavy emphasis on creating rhythmic structures, while functions on the interface allow a very minmalist style interaction with the musical substance. Acid Pauli’s version of reactive music takes conventional notions of sampling and mixing and hurls them into augmented reality.

Symbiotic provides the listener with a groovy minimal techno version of his/her daily sound experience. By tapping the screen you will trigger four clicks as a count-in, allowing you to plan your samples and create limitless overdubs of environmental sounds. You can also nod your head to the beat.

Nymbiotic is based on a forthcoming Acid Pauli track and takes some of its drumsounds from the mic-input. You can determine the length of the sample with the fader on the interface, creating a stunning symbiosis of Acid Pauli’s musical artistry and real-life sounds.

The recordings charts in the last weeks have been dominated by pharmacopia’s recordings. pharmacopia is the solo outlet for wind synthesist, RjDj’er, composer and producer Peter Dragotta.  He also released an album with his most famous recordings on jamendo!

Peter creates most of his recordings by patching the output of other devices into his iPhone instead of using the microphone. Which gives him better control of volume levels (especially on  shake scenes). His most famous charts topping recording was created with GarageAcidLab and uses sounds from adult oriented video material.

“I used material from those videos because for the most part you know the kind of audio source material you are going to get will be very consistent and over a techno beat it just always sounds great. As a guideline, I would never watch the video before composing the piece to maintain spontaneity. Yet on my recording using add_blips it was a bit more challenging in the beginning of that piece. It was validation for me that RjDj scenes are real instruments and the more you get familiar them the more expressive they can be.” To further prove my point, last night I composed two new pieces that are already posted up “Godzilla Has Entered The Building” and “God Loves To Text U”. On both pieces I would watch a video I never seen before and manipulate the audio input signal using a mini-Kaos Pad in one hand and RjDj in the other. On these two I focused on dynamics and change in mood.

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We’re happy to announce that a brand new version of the free RjDj application [iTunes Link] is out! It has a new Store tab for browsing and downloading new scenes, both free and paid. Give it a try, we hope you like it!

We’ve also added the possibility to name you recordings before you upload them, to make it easier to share them with a more interesting name than the date they were recorded, and to keep track of them in the list of recordings on the device.

Give it a spin and tell us what you think!

We have three new scene available: Atsuke from Frank Barknecht, Minimalist Style from Akihiko Matsumoto, and YA.MA.KA.SA from Yotaro Shuto,

Our very own Frank Barknecht visited Japan in September to spread the reactive music word. He worked on Atsuke while learning Japanese characters. That’s where the name  “A Tsu Ke” is from, which means absoluetly nothing in real Japanese. I am not shure how to describe the sound, probably electro trash? Sing with Atsuke. Swing with Atsuke. Whistle with Atsuke.

Minimalist Style from Akihiko Matsumoto alogrithmically generates music based on the analysis of composers such as Bach, Stravinsky, Squarepusher, and many more. Choose your favourite composer by touching one of the squares.

You can also shake the device to move forward in the musical progression, or touch the screen and tilt the device to change the timbre of the synth. The music is generated by a realtime algorithm based on schenkerian analysis. To get some more information on how this scene can be used have a look here. Or check out the video below.

YA.MA.KA.SA from Yotaro Shuto creates  a glitchy soundscape out of the microphone input signal. Shake your device to get it even more disturbing.

Florian