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.)

Click here to get all the details, and share your best Love recordings with the world!

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

The new RJDJ Air App is now available in the Apple App Store for only $1.99. Download it today and spread the “Love”.

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.

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We had quiet a lot of new scenes recently. Triptych from Chuck Wiggins lets you record three sound snippets and play them with different delay times. Inspired by composer John Oswald’s Plunderphonics pharmacopia produced a scene called Oswald that creates collages out of the sounds surrounding you. Dizzy Banjo came up with a new genre for his scene Ascend, generactive. It’s an ambient generative composition that is controlled by hard sounds from the environment. Unowis from Florian Waldner collects sounds and plays them back using granular synthesis along luscious string sounds. Fabio Iaci recently joined the RjDj composer family but already has three scenes out there: Nozy lets you control a noise landscape by moving the device, Theremint is a one finger organ theremin, Galactica is crazy spacey thing that teleports you onto a distant planet.

Triptych by Chuck Wiggins
Oswald by pharmacopia
Ascend by Dizzy Banjo
Unowis by Florian Waldner
Theremint , Galactica , Nozy by Fabio Iaci

Venus Hum, an electro-pop trio from Nashville, is working on an RjDj scene with the help of experienced RjDj scene producer Chuck Wiggins. The scene will be based on the title track of their latest album Mechanics & Mathematics. Venus Hum’s mission is to marry pop songs with strange electronic sounds. We like that.  Check out what Venus Hum is about here or here.