Florian Waldner

I am currently working on an new RjDj scene called “Eden”, inspired by Stansliaw Lem’s great science fiction novel Eden. What I am trying to create is a hybrid between a game soundtrack and reactive music. You can navigate a starship around and discover some extra musical content. But be careful, gravity pulls you towards an alien world called Eden!

Does It Sound Like I Was Here? reacts to the sounds surrounding the listener and incorporates them in the installation. With mobile devices, headphones and a microphone, the installation accompanies the listeners in their everyday lives and creates an extended, acoustic reality. The software is at the heart of this and determines how the composition reacts to conditions and changes in the listeners’ sonic environment. Pics on flickr. Sound on Soundcloud. Video on youtube.

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The picture above is a section of a visualization that displays the number of uploaded recordings made with RjDj scenes available on http://rjdj.me/music/. The picture was made using Processing and the RjDj API . The length of the bar indicates the number of uploaded recordings. The scene on the bottom is the oldest, the one on top the most recently added.

A very helpful and well documented tutorial to start using Processing with JSON is on http://blog.blprnt.com.

Here is the link to the source for the RjDj API visualization: http://13bit.at/RjDj_API_Recordings.zip To run this sketch you will need this JSON Processing library.

aware is a piece of music that reacts to the listeners sonic environment for the RjDj iPhone app. aware creates a lush and wide musical landscape. The microphone is used to produce swirling electronic sounds. A generative synth plays notes whenever there is an acoustic onset in your environment. Swipe through the pages of the scene to experience different modes! Page one is the generative listening mode, page two fuzzy layers of sound based on the mic input, and page three is made to sing along the harmonies and record. You can get the scene for free on RjDj.

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I made a scene called Unowis for the RjDj app. It accumulates loud sounds from your environment and plays them back using granular synthesis in realtime. Besides that it features some string sounds that are constantly modulated and filtered in various ways.