Remiix: a new way to play
Liine releases Remiix Joris Voorn
Things are still vigorously bubbling in the Liine lab and Ableton Live users will be pleased to see some exciting new stuff coming out soon. But in the meantime, the new edition of Remiix, featuring Dutch techno-hero Joris Voorn is out now on the iTunes store.
Remiix Joris Voorn - click for details
Also check out this demo video:
And for those who haven’t seen the first Remiix edtion, have a look at Remiix Plastikman Replikants:
Busy in the lab…
The past month has been especially busy with multiple ongoing projects at Liine, catering to both music professionals and audiophiles alike!
Introducing Liine's Remiix app series.
Recently, we’ve announced Liine’s first app in a series of fun audio toys, Remiix. Featuring Plastikman as the first in a series of Remiix artists, stay tuned for some great remix action on your iDevices!
Keep an eye on the upcoming Remiix website (http://remiix.net)!
A little teaser of the new module coming out in Griid Pro 1.10/Marbles, unprecedented control of Ableton Live!
On the Griid side of things, exciting new things are down the road. Can you guess the first of these from the mysterious cropped screenshot above?
As always, at Liine we are focused on innovative controller interfaces that works in the way that multitouch is best. I’m sure this new module will be lead to some serious sparks of creativity in studios around the globe.
Of course, this is absolutely not the bottom line (no pun intended), we’ve got a lot more coming down the pipeline. 
Until then if you are up for some interesting reading, check out the Liine coverage in the past two Future Music Magazines. The November edition contains a review of Griid, the Ableton Live controller for the iPhone and iPad. The December edition has a full feature on Plastikman Live with interviews with Richie Hawtin, including notes about his use of Griid has a live performance tool and other Liine creations such as Kapture, a Max for Live device that acts as a total recall for your plugin parameters, an invaluable tool that fills in a big gap in anyone’s Ableton Live set.
Comparative review of Liine's Griid iPad controller for Ableton Live.
Interviews with Richie Hawtin about Plastikman Live featuring Liine's Griid and Kapture plugin.
Remiix: Plastikman Replikants
A glimpse of Liine's Remiix Plastikman Replikants. Simple and fun remix audio toy that doesn't sound like one.
Richie Hawtin introduces Liine’s new interactive music concept with Remiix: Plastikman Replikants in December 2010. Remiix lets you combine and transform original Plastikman tracks and reinterpretations from your iPhone or iPad.
Richie Hawtin’s Plastikman alias is synonymous with blurring the concept of performance and experience, with stripping back the boundaries between music and technology and merging artist and audience.
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With Plastikman Live in 2010 and its mind-bending melting-pot of sound and light, we were introduced to a world-first in electronic music performance: the SYNK app allowed the audience to experience Richie Hawtin’s audio-visual manipulations on their mobile devices in a new and personal way. It even allowed the audience to interact with his audio computer and the sound coming from the speakers themselves at certain points in the show. Remiix is part of this natural progression of immersing the audience further into the spectacle, an opportunity for music fans to interact with, manipulate and Remiix both classic Plastikman material and newer reinterpretations.
With Remiix: Plastikman Replikants, Richie Hawtin is setting the tone for Liine’s new interactive music concept. The Remiix series of apps for iPhone and iPad, created alongside forward thinking artists, allows users to experience music in a completely new way. Instead of being recorded and rigid, the music is delivered in parts alongside all the tools needed to put it back together or recombine it, irrespective or whether you are a studio pro or novice.
With this first in the Remiix series, Richie Hawtin offers loops and parts from classic Plastikman tracks, from remixes specially commissioned for Replikants (part of the extensive Arkives package) as well as bits and pieces discovered in the hidden depths of his studio. This is the user’s opportunity to combine things that were never intended to be combined and to twist things into even deeper, darker, stranger places.
As well as giving access to the loops themselves, Remiix apps also allow you to mix the material as you wish, and apply EQ and special effects tailored to the artist in question. For Plastikman, expect disorientating reverbs and twisted, pitched tape delays. Line have integrated professional grade effects, but with the user interface reduced to the bare minimum to allow a huge range of expression with simple macro-controls. This is all tied together with a specially created themed user interface, so that you’re actually interacting with the cover-art itself.
Launching in December, Remiix: Plastikman Replikants will whet appetites for the Arkives box-set (available for pre-order on http://www.plastikman.com/arkives/), as well as give insight into the future of interactive music and of Remiix.
Wait… Griid is here!
Griid just around the corner
After a few months of evolution, on the road beta testing around the world with the Plastikman Live tour, hands on demos and product announcement at Sonar in Barcelona, we’ve seen the first screen shots go public a few weeks ago. Since then we’ve seen a few videos pop up on the Liine youtube channel. I would expect that everyone’s patience be rewarded at anytime now. If you’re not already following Liine on twitter, nor liked the Griid Facebook page, make sure to do so and hear the big news from the source when the time comes.
Here are the latest videos if you didn’t get to see them:
Touching the Griid
So I’ve been pretty busy in the past months and even moved away from my beloved Japan to get installed in Berlin where all the action is. After a few months of secrecy, here’s what I’ve been so busy working on. As announced at Sonar in Barcelona, introducing Liine and our first product Griid, a modular touch controller for Ableton Live and iPad.
See Richie Hawtin performing sound checks with Griid before its grand premiere at DEMF as part of the amazing Plastikman Live setup.
Here’s some coverage by Resident Advisor, and by Create Digital Music.
Follow Liine on twitter, like Griid on facebook, or register to our mailing list for updates.
ReOffMutek
While reminiscing the past, I might as well throw in a bit of legacy for the crazy idea in 2007 to throw an off festival for the renowned yet not so big Mutek event. With a good friend who had launched the idea a few years before, we decided with merely two weeks on our hands to throw a second edition of the modest event. We managed to find a venue and a bunch of local breakcore, glitch and electroacoustics young talents, and gathered a few hundreds happy dancers for quite some fun until the morning.
Flyer for OffMutek party in Montreal, 2007
OffMutek 2007 legacy mashup
ReDandyBerry
Here’s a glimpse of a fun Pd project I worked on two years ago with architects Rodrigo Marti, Danny Shaddick and Mike Lanctot. The software consists of multiple feedback line accumulators of various lengths and degradation factors. The outputs migrate from one speaker to another, thus changing the soundscape and calling for variations in the public’s response.
Of course, when you give open mic chances to random people, it unfortunately doesn’t provoke the most elaborate or intelligent responses. There must be a way to use such a platform for constructive or inspiring exchanges.
U-Bahn fahren…
The past few months have seen great and unexpected change of plans… next stop Berlin, and an amazing, fresh new project that brings me back into action in the development world. Target release for May, stay tuned!
This unfortunately further delays my digging out of the original Guerillartivism artifacts, but I’ll eventually get around to it.
Only a few days left before departure, new laptop coming in tonight, ready for a month of hackothon and curry wurst!