Year One vs RDM

Hear different lyrics in the corners of your room; build melodies as you walk around your couch; hear hidden parts and build your own chords just by walking through the space around you. Year One is the first spatial album, utilizing the possibilities of augmented reality technology, by D.C. group and label TCW. Upon launching the Year One app, the different sounds and instruments of the songs will populate and begin moving through the space around you. Your movement, tracked by your smartphone, will affect which sounds you hear and change how individual effects are applied to them, making for a different listening experience each time. This final release of the album contains all eight spatial arrangements from TCW, Wall of Trophies, and N.E. Hertzberg. TCW has released a how-to guide for any musician to build their own similar app independently. Alongside the guide, TCW has begun cataloging spatial composition techniques for other musicians to use and contribute to. This guide and techniques can all be found on tcwav.com. TCW released their first spatial album, Inauguration, in early 2017 using smartphone GPS positional tracking, and released a similar guide for building spatial applications. Contact the group at tcw@tcwav.com Headphones required for proper audio spatialization.

Build your own random dance practice with RDM: Random Dance Mixer. Add local audio files or YouTube video links, choose each track’s start and end points, adjust volume, and prepare your shuffle order and countdown. Keep the next track a surprise while you dance. FREE FEATURES • Up to 5 local playlists and 5 stream playlists • Playback sections, volume, shuffle and countdown settings • Stream playlist share codes: 1 per day, valid for 24 hours • Restore an existing Google Drive backup RDM PRO — OPTIONAL ONE-TIME PURCHASE • Unlimited local and stream playlists • Practice mode with track repeats, full rounds and adjustable rest • Remove RDM’s own advertisements • Create Google Drive backups, optionally including local audio • Up to 20 stream share codes per day Share codes contain YouTube playlist references, not audio files. Share limits reset at 00:00 UTC. The sharing feature may be unavailable when temporarily disabled by the service. Google sign-in is optional and only required for Drive features. Drive access is limited to RDM’s hidden app-data area. RDM does not extract or download YouTube audio. YouTube controls video availability and ads, which may still appear with Pro. Use local audio you have the right to use. The app displays the actual price from your store before purchase. Pro is a non-consumable purchase, not a subscription. Purchases can be restored through the same App Store account.