Singing Serpent is a commercial recording studio in Kensington on Adams Avenue in San Diego's Normal Heights 92116 ZIP, specializing in original music composition, sound design, and music supervision for advertising and film. Founder Glen Galloway, the former frontman of experimental rock group Trumans Water, launched the studio with co-founder Rafter Roberts and moved from a downtown San Diego location to 4193 Adams Ave in Kensington in 2006. Kensington's Adams Avenue location places the studio within the same commercial block as the Kensington Club, one of the neighborhood's original dive bars and a venue where many of Singing Serpent's freelance musicians have performed over the years. The client roster reads like a Super Bowl commercial break — Singing Serpent has composed and recorded music for Progressive Insurance spots starring Ed Helms, Uber Eats commercials featuring Mark Hamill and Patrick Stewart, and national campaigns for Taco Bell, Butterfinger, Google, Nike, Jack Daniels, and Volkswagen. The studio's first Super Bowl spot, a 2002 Subway campaign, put Singing Serpent on the advertising map, and in-house engineer Ben Moore continues to run sessions that range from 48-hour agency turnarounds to multi-week album productions. Beyond advertising, Singing Serpent has hosted album sessions for San Diego punk and post-punk acts including Hot Snakes, No Knife, and Tera Melos, and recorded a heavy-metal project for Howler soccer magazine during the 2022 World Cup with local band Beekeeper performing as Group of Death. Commercial production teams shooting in San Diego coordinate Singing Serpent's audio work with visual assets from Liz Avery Photography, a brand and event photographer on the same Adams Avenue corridor. Satellite offices in Manhattan and Richmond, Virginia, extend the studio's reach to East Coast agency timelines, but the Kensington headquarters at 4193 Adams Ave remains the primary composition and mixing facility where Galloway and his team of freelance composers build original scores from scratch.