RjDj

A cool app that turns your environment into an other-worldly soundscape, RjDj is the closest thing to experiencing drugs as you're going to get without actually partaking in illicit substances. Created by an Austrian entrepreneur and his small technology team in London, RjDj works by taking a number of elements from your surroundings -- sound, movement, sometimes GPS location -- and synthesizing them to creating a unique and personalized soundtrack of sorts. What you hear and experience is essentially an augmented reality in which the music follows you as you move in space through different actions, moods, and surroundings. There are a variety of "scenes," or types of instructions for songs that you can choose from, that each have distinct interpretations (for example, "Replay in Atlantis" interprets sounds as though you're at a deep-sea chillout party) making for a an incredibly vast world of music and sound for the listener to explore. According to the founders, RjDj was created with the hopes of changing the way we think of music as a passive, static entity into something that is alive and changing constantly. Because the app works by drawing from the individual user, the creators also aim to help in connecting people to their surroundings, their actions, and subsequently, their place in the world.