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:
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.
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.
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:
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.
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!
At first, the name emerged from the combination of three obvious concepts that were central to my thoughts at the time. First and foremost, artistic expression. But art for its own sake, as indispensable as it can be, has always left me on an empty stomach. Be it from advocating social re-appropriation of technology, human empowering designs rather than opposite, consciousness of process rather than trickery tactics, and other ecological and societal issues, I’ve always felt that there were so many things to be said or pointed out that I couldn’t conceive any projects without an activism dimension. The guerilla side of things takes its deepest roots in my graffiti background and acute interest for street art, whereas writers gathered in crews formed a sort of subversive strike force aspiring to freedom and independence from status quo, reclaiming space and altering urban landscapes, and thus how we live in them. In extension to that, while diving into the world of free and open source software, I found myself attracted by a similar modus operandi, but now with groups collaborating remotely and bringing heat into a corporation driven world.
In the past years, with a device convergence and mobility race that is increasingly dominating the technology sector, and data becoming the most valuable commodity, humanity, at least a “lucky” subset of it, has taken the cyborg turn. By doing that, we asked the question of which is the shell, are we really driving the technology we rely on, or is it driving us? So, how could we recuperate all these new technologies and make it something empowering rather than numbing. Something that puts forward collaboration, freedom of speech and truly centered around the idea of self-definition of communities. And most importantly, that invites everyone to be active, and take part in sculpting their communities, rather than obeing the status quo. These ideas led to endless talks and research about social media, anonymous collaboration, surveillance vs sous-veillance, mobile computing, augmented reality, ad-hoc and mesh networking, privacy issues and etc… Along with a great friend running the currently idle Total World Domination, we ran the previous version of this site, which ended up being a huge pile of technology news and details relating to the conception of a mobile unit for guerilla information warfare with an artivism twist. However, being quite an unrealistic project at the time, and also growing much more technical than what my original artistic aspirations allowed, I ended up flipping the off switch. And actually the off switch was an image slicer and jpeg disruptor script I wrote in Python, which turned a snapshot of the previous homepage into this:
Old Guerillartivism mashup
Lately, mobile technology has taken new heights and taking a second look at many ideas discussed back then could be very interesting I think, so I will try to bring back interesting content from the depths of my backups. Creating the new Guerillartivism was not meant to be a revival of the past project where we left it off, but is clearly a great opportunity to reconsider these thoughts.
So let’s get to work…
Ok here we go with this new wordpress platform. It’s working charms except for all the plugin compatibility issues I’ve run into. Not perfect, but let’s give it a go!
Here’s a little image slicing exercise to get started:
Mashing up iPhone memories
