RjDj iPhone app maker close to artist deal
We put the RjDj Album application in our roundup of our 12 favourite iPhone music apps earlier this week, but now Business Week has an interesting interview with the founder of the company behind it, Reality Jockey.
The app turns the real-world sounds around you into music. The company’s founder, Michael Breidenbrücker, was actually one of the co-founders of Last.fm, which we didn’t know. He says RjDj has been downloaded more than 150,000 times for iPhone so far, and interestingly, that labels are interested.
In fact, the article quotes him as saying RjDj is about to sign some kind of deal with “a major recording artist”, with the implication that they’ll create some kind of generative audio track for the app, which fans could then listen to. The business model is that a musician who creates some music for the app gets 10% of the revenues. One to watch, it seems.
