On Saturday, March 13,  Magnitude Music and The iPhone App Ensemble are playing at the Shoreditch Church in London. The iPhone App Ensemble fuses free improviations, minimal  pop and found sounds using iPhone sound creation apps. On of the players, Adam Parkinson, is using RjDj scenes to controle granular synthesisers and other sound generators using the built-in tilt sensors.

Check out the video of Adam Parkinson playing at the New York Electronic Arts Festival, 2009 together with Atau Tanaka, Director of the Culture Lab at Newcastle University.

Atau plays the biomuse, which captures physiological neuron impulses resulting from muscle tension, using it to control samples and synthesis in Max MSP.  Adam is playing on two iPods running RjDj.

With the latest release of RjDj, we are now supporting a new type of interaction in scenes: Pages.

Pages are a way for the listener to easily trigger different states in a scene. A great example is the scene Love by AIR, and today we’re releasing it in the RjDj Store. The scene has 5 pages that present different parts of the reactive version of AIR’s Love track.

We are also supporting paging in our authoring tool, the RJC1000. This means, if you are a producer or musician you can now easily create paged RjDj scenes like the AIR scene.

Love by Air

(You can also get the full Love by AIR application that has more from AIR and support for sending your recording to someone special with some really nice email templates.)

We are also releasing two new scenes from Kids on DSP that take advantage of the new paging feature.

Core Dump by Kids on DSP

… a core dump consists of the recorded state of the working memory of a computer program at a specific time, generally when the program has terminated abnormally (crashed)…  Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes.

Timecruising v2.0 by Kids on DSP

This scene is a collaboration with Carl Craig and features his track Landcruising. Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes! On page one you can move through reality backwards in real-time. Experience reality as a beautiful chord in page two. Page three picks up percussive noises and puts them into beats. Sounds become melodies all around on page four.

You can find these scenes in the Store tab in RjDj. You need to be updated to the latest version of the RjDj app to play these scenes!

Making paged scenes

RJC1000 is our reactive music tool for making scenes, currently in private beta. You can use it to easily create scenes from your musical material, and pages come built in. Read more and apply to be part of the beta testing here.

We will be at the Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) on March 13th. The sprint starts at 10am with a general introduction before we move on to work on individual scenes. We will also bring along our brand new scene production suite RJC-1000 – which makes it easier than ever before to create your own RjDj scenes. Check out more details on the MadLab site here.

The rough structure for the day is as follows:

• Overall presentation of RjDj and the concepts of reactive music
• Short introduction into Pure data
• How to create RjDj scenes and get them on iPhones/iPods
• Collecting and discussing ideas for scenes
• Working on individual scenes (most of the time)
• Presentation of scenes
• Closing party

We’ve had a bunch of recordings submitted to the Love by AIR contest. They are all posted to the @lovebyair twitter account, and you can see all Love recordings on the AIR app page. Learn more about the contest here!

The most played recording that was also part of the contest last week was this short piece. Please note that you need to claim your name in the application to be eligible for a price in the contest! Submit your recording to the contest and spread it far and wide to join the others competing for AIR prizes and an iPod Touch for the overall winner!

Venus Hum, the electro-pop trio from Nashville, released Mechanics & Mathematics on RjDj.

Put yourself into this dynamic remix version of “Mechanics & Mathematics”, the title track from Venus Hum’s latest recording. Hear a different version every time you listen. Speak, sing and make noise while Annette is singing to create harmonies. When Annette is not singing, your own sounds become the groove. Tilting forward and back changes the groove intensity. Rotating left or right brings the music down so your creativity is front and center.

Venus Hum is consisting of vocalist Annette Strean, multi-instrumentalist Tony Miracle, and film-maker Kip Kubin,  Their new record, Mechanics & Mathematics, continues the mission to marry pop songs with strange electronic sound. Venus Hum is also about to release a Mechanics & Mathematics concert DVD. Check out www.venushum.com. The band developed and programmed the scene together with Chuck Wiggins.

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