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RjDj (Reality Jockey Ltd.) is a startup founded in late 2008 by last.fm co-founder Michael Breidenbruecker. The company is based in London and currently run by a team of four permanent employees. Using the computing power of the latest generation of personal music players, RjDj creates musical experiences that are closely connected to the individual listener. RjDj produces and distributes a network of mobile applications and sells additional musical content within this network .

RjDj develops a new genre of music that it calls "reactive music", a non-linear form of music that is able to react to the listener and his environment in real-time. Reactive music adapts to a listener’s environment by using the cameras, microphones, accelerometers, touch-screens and GPS features in media players to affect reactive musical compositions. What is distributed in reactive music is not the music itself, but software that generates the music.

While there have been some other similar concepts around, especially in the field of sound art and generative music, RjDj tries to put it to a mass consumer market. The technology behind it is based on the Pure Data (or Pd) digital signal processing framework. Applications made by RjDj are available on Apple’s iOS platform.

Apps Developed

 * RjDj
 * Love by Air
 * Inception - The App
 * Kids on DSP - reactive minimal techno
 * Little Boots - Reactive Remixer
 * Dimensions - The Game
 * Rj Voyager
 * MusicZones
 * Trippy
 * Dark Night Rises Z+

Artists that created content for RjDj Apps

 * Carl Craig
 * Little Boots
 * Air
 * Acid Pauli
 * Booka Shade
 * Jimmy Edgar

YouTube Videos

 * - Dimensions - from the makers of Inception The App
 * - Hans Zimmer about Inception The App
 * - Inception The App - Sleep Dream Review
 * - RjDj Rj Voyager featuring Booka Shade
 * - Little Boots Reactive Remixer iPhone app tutorial