New digital tools enable music listeners to join in with their creativity while listening to their favourite tunes.

MXP4 has music from about 70 different artists licensed to the program and includes huge names such as Michael Jackson. The possibilities are said to be limited only by the creativity of the listener, as MXP4 allows people to mix tracks together, add drums, take away backing music, and so on.

RjDj, a stand-alone application for the iPhone, will, in turn, enable music to be manipulated by the outside world in real time. Elements such as sounds from around the listener or the speed of walking can be made to affect the listening experience.

The creators of MXP4 and RjDj see the new tools as potential new revenue for artists and record labels.

Albin Serviant, MXP4′s chief executive said: “It’s all about enriching the music experience and adding new features. This allows fans to play with a song they may have heard a thousand times and breathe new life into it.”

Robert Thomas, a ‘reactive music’ producer from RjDj said: “Our software allows old and new music to change, be added to and grow with time and its listeners. CD and vinyl are the same thing conceptually – they allow people to listen to music frozen in its current form by virtue of it being recorded.”

Both services enable users to share their creations by social media tools such as twitter.

Source: The Telegraph