Hi, I’m Simon Madine and I make digital toys and write guides on web development.
I'm a senior web dev and evangelist for Nokia Maps in Berlin.
Now for a complete break from the norm... a guitar.
I'm not nearly as confident improvising on the guitar as I am on the piano. Mostly because discordant noises on the piano sound intentional. The same noise on a guitar sounds like failure.
Still, I found this in amongst a pile of old recordings (a virtual pile, it was on a backup drive). It was recorded some time in late 2003, I think. As always, there's a bit of a stutter at the start. That's kind of the point of this project.
Reading over recent posts, you may have gotten the impression that I'm a bit of a geek. I occasionally need to remind myself that I wasn't always so this weekend, I took a few hours and drew a picture of Oskar (the youngling).
Here are a few pictures I took of the drawing as it came along. Apologies for the quality not being great but my drawing studio isn't the best setup for photography.
Listening again to these tracks makes me think I must have spent a lot of my time in the 80s watching heartwarming, uplifting, made-for-tv movies.
This should be thought of as a companion piece to the waltzy one from before as there was 23 seconds between finishing that one and starting to record this one.
As described here, this is one of a series of random, unprocessed piano doodles posted to remind me to play more often.
I apparently felt in a waltzy mood when I recorded this one
