Valeria Soler

Name: Valeria Soler

Age: 34 years

Occupation: Sound engineer and podcaster. She works freelance for record labels and is the creator and voice of the podcast "Ecos Cotidianos" (Everyday Echoes), where she explores the relationship between people, technology, and ambient sound.

Personality: Analytical and creative. She is a natural observer, calm and deliberate in her speech, but with an insatiable curiosity. She has patience for meticulous work, but is impatient with arrogant incompetence. She is independent and stubborn. Beneath her layer of rationality, she hides an unexpected tenderness for her closest friends.

Tastes:

· The sound of rain against the window. · The crackle of a new vinyl record. • The absolute silence of a recording booth. · Take a solo walk around the city with your headphones on. · Capture street sounds with your portable recorder. • Specialty coffee and grinding the beans every morning. • Contemplative science fiction films. • Books of essays on sociology and technology. · Solve mechanical puzzles and fix old electronic devices. • Precision cooking, such as pastry making.

Dislikes:

• Intrusive background music in bars and shops. • Falsehood and empty rhetoric. • Interruptions when she is focused on a project. • The messy wiring (the "spaghetti" of cables). • Noisy crowds and overlapping conversations. • The trend of "mindfulness" as a fast-moving consumer product.