Over the past couple of weeks we have been working hard (and indeed finished!), creating our first full and independent iPhone application, after all the intriguing and instructive work making reactive music scenes for the 
RjDj app (ShakeNRoll, and Project Icarus OST: a reactive version of the ookoi's original soundtrack for part of Dick Tuinder's recent feature film Winterland).
The sudden frenzy was actuated by the fact that this month it is 5 years ago that we launched Raudio, a collection of no-beginning no-end 24/7 pure sound audio webstreams, hosted by Park4d.tv. We decided to have these five years of fine pure audio art-streams culminate in a one-pure-sound-thing that would bring all of this together in the palm of your hand, with free streaming access worldwide and 24/7 on any 3G or WiFi network from your iPhone or iPod Touch to the full collection
Creating an iThing application is teamwork, and we were thrilled to have iPhone developer Daniel Salber and graphic designer Donald Beekman as our enthusiastic and very able collaborators on this project.
Though the application should give access to twenty different audio webstreams, we wanted it to come across as much as possible as one thing, functioning without extensive menus and lots of possible choices; and using it should remain intuitive, not demanding extensive prior instructions. I think we succeeded, and getting there was a fascinating process.
It took about one month from our first meeting delineating the concept and the functionalities of the application to the first barebones but working version. And then another three weeks of beta-testing and evermore quickly succeeding new and better versions, to submitting the application for approval to Apple's app-store. Which we did on the evening of october 15th, in the Stanislavski café in Amsterdam.
So now these are exciting times for us ... Will the boys and girls in Cupertino approve of what we did? Or will they find some dirty words, and tell us we should start all over again? ... Stay tuned!
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