REPLAY

To renew its strong relationship with music and festivals Replay chooses to join Sònar, the international advanced music and multimedia art festival, presently amongst the most important events of electronic music and drawing thousands of fans from all over the world. No other context would have been more appropriate to present our collaboration with the reactive music phenomenon RjDj. Together with RjDj, Replay presents the Replay iPhone application which elevates music into the the new genre of “reactive” where the music samples and replays the sounds surrounding the listener in realtime. The musical philosophy of reactive is very consistent with Replay's heritage linked to re-making, re-creating and re-elaborating existing principles.
Reactive is a very young musical genre where the music is often generated in realtime as the listener is listening to it. Reactive music is affected in realtime by the listener, his activity or environment. Reactive music songs are called scenes. Composing scenes is very often compared to composing musical arrangements in which listeners are moving in realtime rather than composing recordings which are fixed in time. Scenes usually never sound the same way twice and they are considered software rather than music data. Reactive music has been produced by many artists such as Brian Eno, Kids on DSP, Carl Craig, Air, Little Boots and Booka Shade.

The company behind RjDj is Realtiy Jockey Ltd, which is a small startup based in London, UK. The company was incorporated by Michael Breidenbruecker in May 2008. The first RjDj application went to the Apple app store in October 2008 and more than 2 million RjDj scenes where distributed to date. Michael Breidenbruecker was one of the original founders of Last.fm and RjDj is backed by some illuminated music and tech minds like Stefan Glaenzer, Alex Zubillaga, Saul Klein and Danny Rymer who share their vision of distributing music as software with the RjDj team of 7 music and technology wizards.

Replay in Atlantis kids on DSP featuring Kersty Hawkshaw.: When listening to the scene "Replay in Atlantis", the listener dives into a wonderful underwater world. Noises and sounds of your environment are transformed in realtime into underwater sounds. The Replay in Atlantis scene transforms your town into Atlantis. Combined with floating harmonies and deep bass lines this scene delivers an unparalleled realtime acoustic sensation. Played in the Rj Voyager, Replay Atlantis turns into a bass wobbling dub step tune which is certainly fit for the deepest dance floors of Atlantis. The Rj Voyager iPad application offers a very intuitive interface with touch controls for everyone who wants to explore, mix or perform the scene.

Replay Speedometer by Kids on DSP: Replay Speedometer accelerates your world. The scene puts you into the cockpit of a space ship in light speed. The sonic objects of your environment accelerate past you as if your real world is from yesterday. Replay Speedometer plays realtime doppler effects, time bending sample playbacks and realtime granular synthesized sound fragements with the nervous sounds of speed on a 180 mph timeline of drum and bass. DJ's will find much fun to play with the built in drum computers and synths of the Replay Speedometer scene in the Rj Voyager.