Daniel Semo

@ajarrodkimber You should have dusted off Cricket With Balls just for this post

Someone finally had the balls to write this

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.

@mikewilliams_v I feel like he'd be using Audacity on an old windows computer

How’d he get a medal when he wasn’t using the industry standard gear?!

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

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.

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

@varispeeder Ah I remember that one!

@varispeeder Are you trying to travel back in time to stop Italy from winning the World Cup? Help them win? Is this a Zidane headbutt episode? Is it about Mexico 1970? I have so many questions

The UQ Pitch Drop Experiment of music bbc.com/news/world-eur…

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/jan…

@JamesMmmsom They're both hardened veterans, so what they've lost in agility they make up for in guile

@DanielESemo I wish them both well.

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

@GearoidReidy Covered here theguardian.com/world/2023/dec…

Odd that there appears to be close to zero coverage of the LDP funding scandal and Cabinet reshuffle in the foreign English-language papers of record. I realize Japanese political scandals can sometimes be boring, but this one isn’t.. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

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

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

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...

@JamesMmmsom Buttery smooth

@DanielESemo Love me some Juno

I’m still not convinced that Prigozhin isn’t just another Sasha Baron Cohen character theguardian.com/world/2023/jul…