Sound Audio Works
Founded by Al Mercer in Seattle, Washington, Sound Audio Works is an independent music label and artist development company for new voices, experimental production, and genre-fluid releases. Built from harbor fog, neon rain, underground rooms, and cinematic imagination.
Music as world-building.
Sound Audio Works supports artists and creative projects working across electronic music, alternative rock, pop, cinematic instrumentals, experimental recordings, and conceptual albums. Each release is treated like a living universe: sound, image, character, mood, and myth.
For unusual music finding its audience.
From studio-driven solo projects to expanding artist universes, the label gives strange and beautiful music room to grow across scenes, styles, and timelines.
Genre-Fluid Releases
Electronic pulses, alternative guitars, pop hooks, ambient tunnels, and cinematic instrumentals without the genre police showing up with a clipboard.
Visual Identity
Cover art direction, motion loops, release eras, character systems, and hypnotic aesthetics that make every project feel like a portal.
Long-Form Catalog Growth
Not just songs dropped into the void — a strategic body of work that builds memory, momentum, and audience connection.
Experimental Production
Found sound, waterfront atmosphere, synth grit, tape ghosts, orchestral shadows, and beautiful sonic chaos with a compass.
Pacific Northwest Roots
Industrial docks, rain-glass neon, mountain silhouettes, ferry horns, underground clubs, and skyline electricity.
Creative Collaboration
Artists, producers, filmmakers, VR builders, storytellers, and audio explorers building worlds together from the first note.
Drop in a track.
Upload any audio file and this page breathes with the beat. The waveform becomes the skyline. The skyline becomes the spell. Very Seattle. Very future.
Press play. Build the myth.
A release can be more than a track. It can be a room, a character, a city, a dream, a film scene that never existed until the listener closed their eyes.
Send the signal.
For releases, artist development, production concepts, visual worlds, and brave new noise: connect with Sound Audio Works.
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Email: [email protected]
Instagram: @soundaudioworks
Submissions: private demo links preferred.