Technopolis Lost by SmiteMatter
A melodic and liberating instrumental journey through audio scenes that were created to inspire the imagination, while also telling a story unique to each individual song. Combined inspiration from nature and technology blend seamlessly in a soulful expression, providing a getaway from most daily boundaries and stresses.
This is one of the very first (if not the first) full album of ambient electronic music created entirely on iOS devices. No computers, hardware or dull dark studios were used in any way to produce and record this CD. All of the music included here was made using an iPod touch and an iPad. Often the songs in Technopolis Lost began spontaneously while playing virtual instruments and synthesizer keys on the tablet's glass touch screen. Other songs were made while in city and/or state parks, or in a forest under a dense canopy of trees, all in the Tacoma area of Washington state. Sometimes even capturing the sounds of rain, crowds, or other ambient noise, from rural to crowded areas, was a part of the music-making process.
Tracklist
| 1. | Technopolis Lost | 6:04 |
| 2. | 3rd Rail | 5:09 |
| 3. | Under The Moss | 12:43 |
| 4. | A Matter Of Rain | 5:23 |
| 5. | A View Of Secrets | 4:54 |
| 6. | From The Shade | 4:09 |
| 7. | Glacierized | 8:33 |
| 8. | Circuit Bards | 8:07 |
| 9. | Face Of Two | 3:44 |
| 10. | Familiar | 6:34 |
| 11. | The Time We Got Back | 8:06 |
| 12. | Intergain | 8:28 |
| 13. | Time On A Leash | 6:09 |
Credits
Copyright 2013 David Israel. Released by Apptronica. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
apptronica.us/portfolio/smitematter-technopolis-lost/
Catalogue Number: APP13001
Cover art by Qid Love.
The cover artwork incorporates images by Trekking Rinjani licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license. www.flickr.com/photos/trekkingrinjani/
The cover artwork incorporates images by George Parrilla licensed under a Creative Commons Attrribution 2.0 Generic license. www.flickr.com/photos/georgeparrilla/
License
CC BY-NC-ND 3.0. See the Creative Commons website for details.
David Israel, known to most as SmiteMatter, started in 2009 with just an iPod Touch and some early music apps and was instantly hooked. For SmiteMatter, the concept of being totally free to autonomously create music anywhere with no need for anything else was extremely habit forming. A purist from the very beginning, SmiteMatter now makes his music on a couple of iPads.