Finding noise in quiet places. Telling stories through audio. Cooking with too much garlic.
Joined February 2020
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I worked at the Guardian for more than two years as a freelancer and a casual. I support its mission and wish to see it thrive in the future.
I also wish to see the freelancers it employs thriving, so I support @withMEAA's campaign to get them to the negotiating table.
I'm back with the third series of "14 Days", the project where I create a short audio story every day. One story, one day. For 14 days.
This time, from a city I knew well as a kid... Mexico City.
danielsemo.com/14-days-cdmx
Aaaand just like that... it's done. The 14 days are over.
I probably should have posted links to individual stories as I published them, but I guess my audio skills are more finely tuned than my self-promotion ones.
But the beauty of podcasts is that you can always go back to them. So check them out if you're curious.
There are serious documentaries, there are silly travel pieces, there are ambient field recordings, there are stories about birds. And more.
danielsemo.com/14-days-cdmx
Does every leftie pol around the world have to be a fake DJ? Can't any of them have been in a fake band?
theguardian.com/world/2024/j…
Yo La Tengo and Spoon are head to head in the eternal battle for the Band That I Forget About For A Year Or Two But Then As Soon As I Listen To Them Again I Ask Myself If They Might Just Be My Favourite Band Ever title.
Yo La Tengo is marginally in front right now
One of my plans (goals?resolutions?) for 2023 is to work more consistently on music. Whether composition or songwriting or sound design—I’d like to finish and release one new piece of music every week. So this thread is the way to keep myself accountable. One new piece/week...
24. An unfinished film cue for a scene from the animated Super Mario movie. A jaunty exercise in fast woodwind passages, galloping brass and transition glissandi.
Fun, but too much of a MIDI pain in the ass for what is less than a minute of music
on.soundcloud.com/k5UYR
25. Trying to convince myself to buy a new drum machine by using the old, shitty, noisy one I already have and getting frustrated by its limitations.
on.soundcloud.com/XVhYU
I’m still not convinced that Prigozhin isn’t just another Sasha Baron Cohen character
theguardian.com/world/2023/j…
I'm as a big a fan of Bryan Devendorf's muted-teatowels-on-toms sound as anyone... but sometimes I wish the National would let him loose on one of those rollicking manimal beats of old again