Almost Viral with Simon The Magpie

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Captain Credible talk with Koka Nikoladze about his creations, teaching Live Electronics at the Norwegian Academy of Music, creativity as a shelter, challenges of performing with electronics, use of computers in live music, expressing appreciation for others’ work, AI in art, the challenges of creating electronic things, and a bunch more! https://www.koka.one h...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Marie Anne Hedonia, and Captain Credible talk about James Bond, Captain Credible’s creations, Hitchhiker’s Guide, synthesizers, approaches to recording, de- and re-essers, Polyend Tracker, Speed but slow instead of fast, Marie’s F1 racing career, Capt. Credible’s skiing career, horsepower?, tracker, the Osmose, novelty gear, playing vs making music, and a whooole b...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Dan Fingerman, Moritz Klein, Marie Anne Hedonia, Captain Credible, and very briefly Roey Tsemah talk about penpals, superstition & religion, objective vs subjective morality, alcohol, linkedin, lawyering, schooling, labor law, animation, making a compressor, programming, old internet, and waaaaay more! https://www.synthux.academy https://www.youtube.com/@Moritz...

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon have a chat with legendary Magpie Pirate and synth cable peddler, Bucket Lord. We talk about geomagnetism, how Bucket Lord came to Magpie Pirates, LED cables, why they sell cables, splitters, Brexit, retail, trade shows, sending out samples, working with dad, plans for the future, school and degrees, studio setup techniques, favorite cable, least-favorite cable,...

Simon the Magpie, Bass Master Andreas, and Jeffiot (Jefferson) talk about DM etiquette, AI, Jeffiot’s recent Gävlebacken video, reality TV production, films, ARG’s and interactive stories, social media functionality, Elon Musk, money and work, ghost stories and copypastas, and much more! (And Analog has a bunch of FOMO listening to it). Gävlebocken: A Measured Response (Full Documentary) Jeffiot's...

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Johan Ransby about engaging with people in comments, Ransby’s creator sessions, strategies and struggles with writing lyrics and music, completing projects, getting outside the comfort zone when creating, algorithms, Spotify and all the better alternatives, and much more! https://ransby.biz https://www.youtube.com/ransbyjohan https://www.instagram.com/r...

Simon the Magpie and Analog Weapon chat with Martin Yam Møller chat about weaving, names, the Danish Desert, sports/competition/creativity, cassette 4-tracks, wood and plastic in design, when a project is complete, ways to start a project, kickstarters, electronics projects, how we got into music, and that’s not even half of it! https://martinyammoller.com https://www.instagram.com/martinyammoller...

Simon the Magpie, Dan Fingerman, and Analog Weapon chat with Juantito (aka Tin Can Synth Jam, aka Modular for the Masses) about building synths in tin cans, parasocial divorce, gamified listening stats, Advent synth kit, how a capacitor works, pipe organs vs synths, sound vs music, smells and fermented fish, expiration dates, solid core vs stranded wire, circuit bending, inspiration, bad sounds vs...

The beginning of this episode is Simon and Analog talking a bit about slight format change for the podcast, a new idea to raise money for, and Decent Sampler instruments. If that sounds boring, jump to 23:06 for the beginning of our chat with Jeffiot! Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Jeffiot talk about ASMR, poorly read audio books, secret recordings, making video essays that are fun, Jeffiot’...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and OK Housecat talk about fonts, circuit bending, all sorts of chips and numbers, our big idea, least favorite sound, remembering lyrics, making music, and then 5 more hours of other stuff. https://www.etsy.com/shop/okhousecat https://okhousecat.bandcamp.com https://www.youtube.com/c/OkHousecat http://www.okhousecat.com https://www.instagram.com/okhousecat/ We app...

Simon the Magpie, Dan Fingerman, Analog Weapon, and Bass Master Andreas hang out and chat about stuff like drugs, language, what makes travel interesting (or not), affect of places on things, documentaries, true crime, films, the Internet Archive, copyright and public domain stuff, Syd Barret and outsider art, virality, Andreas giving tours to a scammer, AI video generation, making money from art,...

Simon the Magpie and Dakato talk about parental advisory warnings, Magpie Fest, the editing process, things to listen to while working, TLI (too little information), free speech laws, conspiracy theories, saying vulgar things alone for amusement, psychological states and conditions, drugs that work and drugs that don't, cancellation, sobriety, relationships and living alone, and other stuff. We ap...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, Dan Fingerman, and Dakato hang out with Bass Master Andreas and Once upon a Synth and talk for a really long time. It doesn't go off the rails as much as it just starts off the rails and doesn't really try to find them.

We talk with Magpie Fest founder Dismist, and a bunch of past and upcoming performers. Magpie Fest 6 (Spookfest) is coming up October 29th and 30th! All money made by Magpie Pirates in October will be given to Spookfest performers. http://www.magpiepirates.com/magpiefest https://magpiepirates.bandcamp.com https://magpie-pirates-merch.creator-spring.com?

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Moritz Klein have a chat with Jasper Wijnands (shookmusic)! https://www.shookmusic.com https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdMgFYaIM499VQnD823iVgg https://shook.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/shookmusic/?hl=en We appreciate your support via  Patreon . You're also invited to join the  Magpie Pirates discord community !

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Andreas chat with Once Upon a Synth! We appreciate your support via  Patreon . You're also invited to join the  Magpie Pirates discord community !

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Via Mardot talk theremin, saw, tubular bells, doing art for work, pseudonyms, social media, lame DM’s, comparison-based comments, video games, earliest memories, kicking every kid out of school, Leon Theremin, mic choices (or lack thereof), The Lollipop Guilt, incidental aesthetic, Marxophone, The Surferjettes, and much, much more! Via Mardot Instagram Via Mard...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and BoBeats talk about how words are taken, attention available for content based on length, the appeal (or lack thereof) for short content, the benefits (and challenge) of things that require attention, the speed of trends, how all of these affect critical thinking, why Bo started doing YouTube, synth YouTube is not the forefront of the internet, the ability to ma...

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Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Marie Ann Hedonia (And sometimes Dakato) talk about synthtuber memes, stage names, beginnings, Instagram, modular synthesis, virtuosity and music theory, east vs west coast synthesis, battery-powered gear, recording techniques, big synths and gear weight, photo management and cat pictures, photography and AI art, Stalker (the film), finding what to do with free...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Hainbach talk about language, “good to have you back” origin, sentimentality and throwing things away, comment vibes, self promotion, ASMR, playing live, magnetic card recorder video, reposting own content from other platforms, stats and metrics and how it relates to storytelling, Super Booth, chapters and and the time graph, slow buildups and starting in the m...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and David Hilowitz talk about generations, writing and making music, music for YouTube vs music for albums, quality vs time invested, setting projects aside and returning to them, writing lyrics, following for content vs the person presenting, Decent Sampler, slinky violin, the YouTube game and the algorithm, thinking in terms of samples, ASMR, fake restoration vid...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Moritz Klein talk about creating electronics, a breadboard eurorack module, paint markers, creating schematics, simulating circuits, writing on the train, working at SoundCloud, creating a ladder filter, showing the face, video production and camera stuff, glorifying bad things from history, following and setting trends, microcontrollers and menu diving, design...

Simon the Magpie, Analog Weapon, and Benn Jordan talk about crypto/blockchain/NFT’s, artificial intelligence, approaching things scientifically, social media and trends, New York Times / Dan Urbina, Dolby Atmos, Dyson mask/headphones, a new distributed form for releasing music, prepping, sounds that animals like, animal intelligence, religion, not getting fed by a friend’s family in Sweden, Jantel...

Crushing Depths, the host of Makin' Things on the Magpie Pirates podcast channel, takes over Almost Viral for a special episode! https://pod.co/magpie-pirates