Women's Audio Mission

WAM’s world-class recording studios/training facilities are the only professional recording studio in the world run entirely by women/gender-expansive staff. The studio has a vast collection of amazing audio gear and microphones and has previously hosted projects by Beyonce's Band, Toro y Moi, Alanis Morrissette, R.E.M., Timbaland, and Radiohead. In 2019, WAM’s San Francisco studio was chosen as SF Weekly’s Best of SF in the category “Best Hope For Future Of Music.” WAM’s unique studios are home to a rigorous internship and training environment that cultivates women/gender-expansive recording engineers and producers and provides a low-cost, high-quality recording environment for independent artists. WAM has had the pleasure of working on many award-winning projects such as GRAMMY winner Kronos Quartet, 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 by NPR.

Our internship program is widely recognized in the audio and music production industries for the caliber of training, range of activities, overall experience, as well as job placement opportunities. Past interns have gone on to positions with such companies as Dolby, Pixar, Apple, Sony, Google, and Pandora, as well as most of the premier venues for music and performance in the San Francisco Bay Area. In addition to core responsibilities, WAM interns also take advantage of special tours of our partners’ labs and spaces (e.g., Dolby, Meyer Sound, Arup, and Facebook), behind-the-scenes access to sound checks for major acts (e.g., Janelle Monáe, Sheila E., St. Beauty), private professional development opportunities with industry leaders, and much more.

WAM Recording Residencies offer primarily underrepresented Bay Area women and gender-expansive musicians and performers free recording services and performance opportunities, while providing critical work experience and professional credits to emerging women/gender-expansive producers and recording engineers. These sought-after residencies include professional development opportunities, artist promotion, performances, and community forums.

WAM provides rigorous, hands-on certification training in professional audio and the recording arts in world-class recording studios in San Francisco with award-winning women and gender-expansive instructors.

Local Sirens is a free concert series that features exceptional Bay Area women and gender-expansive musicians and performers. Local Sirens supports majority BIPOC artists who are creating new and innovative work that is representative of the diverse communities of the Bay Area. To date, Local Sirens has presented the work of 120+ local women and gender-expansive artists and reached over 8,500+ attendees.