Virtually Policy #5: The co-creators: audience, artists & the future of music

Episode 5 is an extended interview with Robert Thomas, Chief Creative Officer of RjDj, and Jim Purbrick & Max Williams, who together are 100 Robots (the group which provide the theme music for the Virtually Policy podcast). RjDj is a reactive music application for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch that creates a unique sonic experience each time you listen to a ’scene’. 100 Robots combines analog music creation with live control of electronically generated sounds using drum interfaces and iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches. Both RjDj and 100 Robots have experimented with enabling their audiences to be co-creators of the live performance experience. They discuss how advances in technology are bringing music back to its participatory roots. In this episode, we discuss how technology has changed our relationship with music from the pre-industrial age, where music was often a communally created and consumed experience, through the twentieth century that emphasised passive consumption of a recordings by ’star’ artists, to the present, where technologies such as karaoke, SingStar and Rock Band have enabled people to re-connect with music making. << Episode #4 Bitcoin All Episodes Episode #6 >> Transmedia story telling and the crisis of authorship Guests External Links RjDj 100 Robots 100 Robots vs The Audience Personal Web sites / works: Jim Purbrick Robert Thomas Robert Thomas aka Dizzy Banjo’s YouTube Channel Background Brian Eno Icarus (band) Podcast music: “For the Horde” kindly provided by 100 Robots.