rjdj is a nifty little iphone app which creates 'music' out of incoming sound. there's a fascinating video clip on the developer site, an outtake from G4's 'attack of the show' in which the two hosts get visibly excited by the app's reaction to their audio input.
in a way, this excitement is more interesting to me than the app itself - i remember an Eno interview where he went off on a concept a collaborator of his called 'idiot glee' when asked to describe the state of mind that he considered most important to creating art...
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be nice LX, rjdj is made out of pd patches!
Pd is something i will need to blog about, more specifically pure:dyne, a linux distro that comes with Pd installed.
as i've blogged about interactive media thingies and studied the _many_ tools that have already been developed, i keep wondering why this stuff is taking so long to catch on - that there's something crucial that is missing, and that it doesn't have anything to do with the tools, it's the mindset of the people using them...both composer/creators and the 'fans' who would choose to experience a more personal, demanding art form.
that's why i made my comment about the importance of the two hosts' excitement - not to downplay the importance of rjdj, but to muse a bit about the audience's 'new' role of co-collaborator in generation of interactive works...
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