Here it is, the long awaited RjDj shake release. We have bundled seven different scenes into the shake album. You will find Roman Haefeli’s Amenshake Scene, which is something like a classic of the shake scenes and was requested many times. It is a dance scene that gives you dnb when you move. Romans scene is fun and i hope we will see some more exiting content in this field. Amaury Hazan did a crazy scene that needs certain, sometimes wild, movements of the phone to get specific musical reactions. Whenever you see someone treating his Iphone/Itouch as if he wants to smash it or shake it to death…. he is probably listening to strike from Amaury (see video below). Christian Haudej did the opposite to strike. His scene is called MyFantasyGame.com and you move your device slowly to get some acoustic feedback. The music is very relaxing and so are the movements. Matt Robertson’s scenes are controlling different instruments and Paul Brossier’s scene scratcher is scratching in ways you can’t scratch with any turntable. Have fun, and let us know how you are doing with the RjDj shake. -PLEASE TAKE CARE, DON’T HURT ANYONE AND DON’T SMASH YOUR DEVICE-
We have a very tiny Christmas present for all RjDj fans out there. It is only a small link that starts with rjdj:// . If everything goes right, these kind of links will hopefully give you much more little presents in 2009 ;-)
A stack full of iPods for the RjDj Sprint in Berlin
The Berlin Sprint is over and it was the biggest sprint we’ve had so far. About two dozen participants and the full RjDj team were taking the office of our wonderful hosts Moviepilot (check their website!) hostage for three days. Our goal was to produce more scenes for RjDj, give musicans a headstart in Scene writing and generally have a good time. Read more.
Our RjDj sprint in Berlin, which starts on Friday, 12.12.2008, 17:30, will end with a party at the FC Magnet Bar on Sunday, 14.12. Check out the Berlin Sprint page for details and an updated timetable for the sprint.
The new version of RjDj, 0.6.5, is now out, and available for iPod Touch. Only the single version has been updated for now, the album should follow really soon. Besides interface tweaks we added one new scene which reacts on movement. This will give you a taste of the next album and also provide the RjDj feeling to all users on iPod touch 1g which does not support mic input. Enjoy!
December is the time for the next RjDj sprint: The Reality Jockeys would like
to invite you to the Scene composing session on 12-14 December 2008 in Berlin at this nice location:
moviepilot
Bluecherstraße 22
10961 Berlin (Kreuzberg)
The action starts on Friday, 12.12. at 17:30 (updated) and spans the whole weekend.
Wow, thank you all for the feedback. We have some good news for you:
RjDj will soon run on iPod Touch 2G!
There is one thing however: you will need to get a headphone with a microphone included, just like on iPhone Edge 2G.
We are preparing an update for this, and working hard on ironing some issues. We are also preparing the next steps and features, and look forward hearing more comments from you. Again, thank you all for the amazing feedback we received so far!
RjDj was born as an iphone application on a friday, october 10, 2008 about 2pm gmt. The first day was naturally quite exciting. Before going into details, let us give you some links so you know who RjDj is.
First of all we were really happy about the many reactions we got. Peter Kirn’s excellent article and his interview on the creative digital media blog deserves some special mentioning. Peter really managed to point out that RjDj is not born to be yet another iphone app. What we really want to achieve is to be the driving force behind a new music genre.
We also got a lot of requests for new features. The main topics were recordings download and scenes download. Both topics are on our radar. If you are one of those people who do not want to wait until new features are done but rather do them yourselfes, you came to the right place. Please let us know and drop us a line at info at rjdj.me. E.g. we need django people who are able to help us on the web framework. I guess later this week we will also release more info about the open source angle of RjDj.
A lot of requests were about more RjDj scenes. There is a whole bunch of really talented musicians/programmers working on that already and we hope we can attract more. This morning Mike Dixon who learned about RjDj on friday just uploaded a new scene…. that is the right spirit!! If you are interested in creating more scenes, read on.
Some people were trying to install RjDj on their Ipod touch, which does not work because we currently only support the iPhone (we are working on an iPod touch 2g version too….) Others tried to use RjDj without headset microphone. In theory that should work but only in theory. Ask Paul who spent countless nights on the audio driver how much he cursed over the Apple SDK…
A few people also reported one nasty problem that really twisted the mind of Paul and Guenter: RjDj crashed right after launch. We are working on this but are still trying to find a way to reproduce this error. If it happens to you, read the bug report and send us an email.
All in all it was a wonderful first day. Thanks again to everyone who is involved with RjDj. Whatever scene you are listening to, take care and enjoy your mind twisting hearing sensations.
I knew this video would rock when i filmed Philipp and Amaury beatboxing the sh#$%t out of Roman Haefeli’s RjDj scene WorldQuantizer. But what i got when i copied the sound recording from the Iphone and combined it with the video, totally blew me away. Unedited, live recorded, full length, RjDj beatboxing madness featuring Philipp Sageder from a band called Bauchklang and Amaury from RjDj:
Here it is, the long awaited RjDj shake release. We have bundled seven different scenes into the shake album. You will find Roman Haefeli’s Amenshake Scene, which is something like a classic of the shake scenes and was requested many times. It is a dance scene that gives you dnb when you move. Romans scene is fun and i hope we will see some more exiting content in this field. Amaury Hazan did a crazy scene that needs certain, sometimes wild, movements of the phone to get specific musical reactions. Whenever you see someone treating his Iphone/Itouch as if he wants to smash it or shake it to death…. he is probably listening to strike from Amaury (see video below). Christian Haudej did the opposite to strike. His scene is called MyFantasyGame.com and you move your device slowly to get some acoustic feedback. The music is very relaxing and so are the movements. Matt Robertson’s scenes are controlling different instruments and Paul Brossier’s scene scratcher is scratching in ways you can’t scratch with any turntable. Have fun, and let us know how you are doing with the RjDj shake. -PLEASE TAKE CARE, DON’T HURT ANYONE AND DON’T SMASH YOUR DEVICE-
RjDj was born as an iphone application on a friday, october 10, 2008 about 2pm gmt. The first day was naturally quite exciting. Before going into details, let us give you some links so you know who RjDj is.
<a href="http://rjdj.me/do-you-rjdj-me/"><img src="http://rjdj.me/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/doyourjdjme.png"/></a>
