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  • 16 Sep 2023

    My Books

    Not Geek, Ideas

  • 14 Mar 2021

    Tape EP

    I've been on a bit of a 70s/80s funk/soul organ thing recently. Think 'Vulfpeck' plays the 'Theme from Hill Street Blues'…

    Available to stream on a website near you

    Not Geek

  • 30 Dec 2020

    Music Visualisation

    While working on my next album (Minimum Viable Product of a Misspent Youth), I decided to have a go at building a music visualiser.

    No particular reason why, I've just never done it before. It involves attaching a Web Audio API Analyser Node to a Canvas then outputting the whole thing using a MediaRecorder.

    The next post has details on how the basics of this approach works and how to build your own and here are a couple of examples of the visualisations.

    btw, while you're waiting, why not check out my previous albums on Spotify?

    Not Geek

  • 29 Oct 2020

    It’s A Ghost's Life

    Here's a fun, spooky little song for Hallowe’en.

    Writing the lyrics took about 5 minutes. Writing the music took another 5. Recording and mastering it took about an hour.

    Making the darned Pac-Man maze inside Minecraft took about 6 hours. No joke.

    I think this means I'm better at recording music than I am at playing Minecraft and I'm okay with that.

    Not Geek

  • 23 Sep 2020

    Awsm Street

    My lovely other half and I have launched an online shop selling unisex kids' clothes:

    The idea came about after child #1 complained about the clothes in the shops getting duller and more grey the older he got. One Skateboarding Unicorn sketch later and Awsm Street was born.

    You can now find Highland Cow Hoodies, Porridge t-shirts and Kid-friendly day planners.

    Not Geek, Not Geek

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Simon Madine (thingsinjars)

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Hi, I’m Simon Madine and I make music, write books and code.

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