Join us for a tour of WAM’s recording studios, a Listening Lounge featuring music created in WAM’s studios, learn about our Local Sirens Artist Residencies, experience audio demos in our Dolby-certified Atmos spatial audio-equipped studio, and enjoy a relaxed happy hour with wine and beer. This is your chance to mingle with local artists and audio professionals, and experience WAM’s world-class recording studios – the only professional recording studios in the world specifically built and run entirely by women and gender-expansive staff.
This is a drop-in event – come when you can, stay as long as you’d like!
Artists are encouraged to chat with our studio engineers about their work and explore how WAM can support their creative and professional development. Join us for an evening of community, creativity and collaboration!
Women’s Audio Mission is dedicated to the advancement of women and gender-expansive people in music, audio production, and creative technology, fields in which they are critically underrepresented: fewer than 5% of the people creating the sounds, music, and media in the daily soundtrack of our lives are women or gender-expansive individuals. With locations in the Bay Area and Los Angeles, WAM offers accessible training, mentorship, and conferences to serve over 3,000 women, girls, and gender-expansive people annually in order to inspire them to amplify their voices and become the innovators of tomorrow.
WAM’s world-class recording studios, named “Best Hope for the Future of Music” by the SF Weekly, have hosted projects by GRAMMY winner Kronos Quartet, Neko Case, Toro y Moi, David Sedaris, Margaret Cho, a Grammy-winning album by Angelique Kidjo, an Academy Award-nominated soundtrack to the film “Dirty Wars,” and Vietnamese composer Van-Anh Vo, chosen as one of the 50 best albums of 2013 by NPR. The studio has a vast collection of amazing audio gear and microphones and has previously hosted projects by Alanis Morrissette, R.E.M., Timbaland, and Radiohead.
WAM’s Local Sirens Artist Residency & Concert Series has supported 200+ BIPOC women and gender-expansive musicians through free recording services for commissioned work and paid performance opportunities to expand their audience. Each year, a cohort of 10+ musicians create new work recorded in WAM’s studios, providing critical support for local artists. Applications are accepted on a rolling basis at the link above!