Dave Kusek over at the Future of Music blog ( a great blog by the way ) linked to this great parody of music software – it really made us laugh !

Satire created for:
www.theinternetnowinhandybookform.com

Great info-graphics at:
www.informationisbeautiful.net

Enjoy and happy holidays !

Rob

Here’s our reactive holiday present to you – the minimal techno album Kids On DSP is free until New Year! We hope you enjoy a trippy and reactive winter break, and that Kids on DSP can introduce more people to reactive music and RjDj. Happy holidays from the RjDj team!

Kids on DSP contains 8 reactive minimal techno scenes, including collaborations with Carl Craig and Acid Pauli.

Get Kids on DSP from the app store.

Just a note to tell you we’re taking the RjDj Shake application down from the App Store. All the scenes in the app are available in the free RjDj player, and of course if you already have the application, it will stay on your phone and in iTunes. If you want the Shake scenes in RjDj, upload a recording of each scene and log in with the same account in the free RjDj app. The scenes will be available for download in your account (in the RjDj.me section, not the Store tab).

We’re proud to announce the latest addition to the RjDj family – a collaboration with British pop phenomenon Little Boots. Together with Little Boots herself we reactified three of her songs and turned them into RjDj scenes. The result is the first reactive remixing app where fans of either Little Boots or reactive music can use reality to remix her tracks.

We’ve used the full reactive toolbox, so the scenes play with manipulating audio input, walk detection and some really interesting new angles on controlling the flow of the music with the accelerometer, Strike style.

Read more about the application and scenes here, and get it from the App Store.

December 11 and 12. Come by!

We are working on a couple of new projects that we would love to share with the world. New York is exactly the right place to do that. Our friends at eyebeam are kindly hosting us for both days. So please come by, we would love to meet you.

On the 11th we are having a session starting from 7pm where we will introduce the RJC1000 and talk about upcoming releases and also about our work on the RjDj Labs projects. Please also bring your iTouch or iPhone with RjDj and a pair of headsets with microphone because we want to take the chance for the first ever live RJC1000 session.

On the 12th we will give you a deeper insight into scene creation and how to work with Pd.

For more information about the events please check out this link.

In the new RjDj Labs section, we show off some work in progress from RjDj. For example the RJC 1000 that will be revealed in New York this week, and our Android client. Have a look!

We had the pleasure of having Charlie for Wired follow our work for a while, and the result was this article about RjDj in the December issue of Wired.

And here’s a “behind the scenes” pic from the photoshoot, snapped by Eileen Burbidge.

Porto Sprint, second day

The RjDj Porto Sprint was part of the 10th Digital Arts festival “Olhares de Outono 2009″ at the Universidad Catolica, and took place on November 25-26. We started with more than ten people on Wednesday, and there were 6 people on Thursday. The audience already had a Pd workshop given by Christian Delecluze, which was nice because I didn’t have to start from the very beginning. So the sprint started with a presentation of the Composer Pack and RjLib which gave the participants the sonic building blocks they needed.

• Henrique Toscano made Trippy Thing, an effect-like scene that use a lot of delays, reverb and vocoder
• Ricardo Lameiro made 9 keys, a touchpad looper and drum sampler. He is going to upload a new version that has some generative behavior soon.
• João Cordero made a network setup scene based on zzSendSensors and GetSensors. The iPhone part extracts attacks and notes using bonk~ and fiddle~ and the
  desktop part generates visualizations with gem. He wants to use this setup for some prototyping during his Phd.
• Marta Luisa Santo has written a piece of generative music called Route, using many synths from RjLib. She enjoyed very much the s_guitar and s_drumelectro synths combined with the e_chorus effect.
• Samuel Von Ransbeeck and André Baltazar have created a sample-based reactive scene that dives into music layers, street and atmospheric sounds.

Puh, just in time for our NY sprints we have updated the RjDj Composer Pack. The major change is a new version of the RjzServer by our Mighty Python guru  MC Chris. It now should look much better and make you feel better, too. OS-X users will be happy to see that the newest OS version is supported as well. We also include the RjzServer for older OS-Xes, so choose your poiso wisely.

Some other changes: The ever growing “rj” library has grown a bit more. It’s sporting our reworked help files in many places (but not all yet), bugs have been squashed, features added. So give it a whirl and experience how fun it is to write scenes for RjDj and let the masses enjoy them. Don’t forget to share your results at rjdj.me/sharescene/