Bay Area-based group, La Gente, tracked drums at WAM today with engineer, Maya Finlay. The group is multilingual and international and plays self-dubbed "Califusion," a mix of reggae, cumbia, hip-hop, salsa, rock and reggaeton.
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WAM was invited to attend United for Success/Citizen School's WOW! event in which students presented and performed projects from the Girls on the Mic program for friends, family, and supporters.
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Students from Thomas Edison Charter Academy brought their harps to WAM's studio yesterday and took turns performing and recording their classmates playing songs on the harp.
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WAM is excited to announce we're celebrating our 10th anniversary - or WAMiversary - this year! Read our official press release on PR web: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/4/prweb10683853.htm and get a glimpse of some of our achievements over the past decade below.
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We just wrapped up an intensive after-school program with the girls from Citizen Schools/United for Success in Oakland. The program culminated in a live recording session in which girls learned basic operating skills on the console, recorded adult musicians and each other playing guitar, drums, and singing, and got to experience what happens in a real recording session.
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WAM was really excited to host our first class on mastering - Introduction to Mastering - taught by Bay Area mastering engineer, Piper Payne, from Michael Romanowski Mastering.
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We were very honored to have a surprise visit from acclaimed author and activist Arundhati Roy, best known as the author of The God of Small Things, during the Kronos Quartet session last Friday! It was really inspiring to meet her in person, along with independent documentary filmmaker, Sanjay Kak.
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Last weekend was incredibly busy at WAM. Right after the Kronos Quartet session, we had all-female, Bay Area-based mariachi band Mariachi Femenil Orgullo Mexicano back in the studio to record overdubs. We used an AEA R84 and an Advanced Audio CM-47 in the session - both really helped the music shine! We'll be mixing the tracks next week and can't wait to hear the final product.
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Last Friday, Kronos Quartet returned to the WAM studio to record the soundtrack for the forthcoming film "Monir," score composed by Hooshyar Khayam and film directed by Bahman Kiarostami.
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The WAM team put on three highly successful workshops at the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference at Skyline College last weekend.
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Women's Audio Mission had a blast at the Expanding Your Horizons (EYH) conference at UC Berkeley this weekend!
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The WAM Level 2 Certificate class just got started this week. Students will be attending 8 sessions that cover using large format consoles, mic placement techniques, signal processing, and other topics.
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Women's Audio Mission is excited to be starting an 11-week partnership with United for Success/Citizen Schools in Oakland!
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Last week, Women's Audio Mission started a five-week workshop with girls from Thomas Edison Charter Academy! The first project was to create their own podcasts.
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Students from Holy Names High School participated in a Girls on the Mic workshop yesterday where they wrote songs, played several different instruments, created sound effects and sang their heart out.
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