David Exumé

Writer // Audio Producer // Multimedia Artist

Currently a Producer at Snap Judgment.

I've produced audio features on music, the arts, health equity, and more for NPR's Morning Edition and KALW. I've also written short stories, essays, and interviews for Joyland Magazine, Memoir Mixtapes, and Bandcamp Daily.

Recently, I provided an original score for TORPOR, an audio-visual collaboration that premiered at DC Listening Lounge's Sound Scene Festival.

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Most Recent Projects

Audio Stories, Music, Etc.

We Are Not Yellow Pearl, Snap Judgment

It’s 1972 and Singer Nobuko “JoAnne” Miyamoto and her partner Chris Ijima get “the call.” It’s Yoko Ono and John Lennon inviting them to sing on national TV. What happens next is musical history.

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TORPOR

A multimedia collaboration that debuted at DC Listening Lounge's Sound Scene 2021 Festival. Animation by Kathleen Ma; music by me; words by both of us.

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Meet Oakland's First Poet Laureate: Dr. Ayodele "WordSlanger" Nzinga, NPR

A profile of Dr. Ayodele Nzinga, the first Poet Laureate in the city of Oakland's history.

Longer version available here on KALW.

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Producer Chris Keys Talks Honesty, Collaboration, And 'Judas And The Black Messiah', KALW

Producer/beatmaker Chris Keys, on his influences, working with Quelle Chris, and his work on Judas and the Black Messiah.

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Songwriter Emily Brown Uses Music And Poetry To Explore What Language Wants, KALW

Oakland songwriter & poet Emily Brown talks the influence of poetry in her music and the closure of Mills College.

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Umoja Health's Pop-Up Clinics Prove That Home Is Where The Healing Is, KALW

On Umoja Health, a health services network whose efforts to understand local neighborhoods have ramped up testing in Black Bay Area communities.

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Rexx Life Raj Raps About Hope For The Bay And His Future Self, KALW

Rexx Life Raj, rapper, singer and producer, shares the faces and places that fuel his creative process, and how he uses music as a journal.

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Other Voices, Other Blues, Joyland Magazine

A short story about a girl and her fairytale of a dad.

From Live Shows to Live Streams: A Musician's Pandemic Blues, KALW

An interview with multi-instrumentalist Zach Moses Ostroff for KALW's @WORK series.

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David Recommends: "Playing Possum" by Earl Sweatshirt, Memoir Mixtapes

An essay on one of my favorite Earl Sweatshirt tracks for Memoir Mixtapes's #BlackLivesMatter series.

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