The Studio. The world's first fully open source recording studio.

🎯 Goal one

We strive to make
great music.

Our best songs, ready to play right here. Tap any song to hear it.

Featured songs

5 picks from the catalog

Goal two

We strive to help you make great music.

Artists keep 100% of their royalties. We pay you to learn. We market your music like it is our own. Here is everything we do for the artists who work with us.

Work with us one-on-one

A small, select roster of hardworking artists. Serious marketing help: experience, discipline, and real processes.

100% of royalties

Every stream, every sale. You keep all of it, and we share everything openly.

The $20 challenge

Get paid $20 to learn an instrument for 60 days, or get your first song up on the internet.

Free tools

MusicBot, the Equalizer, BPM Tapper, and more. Little things we built for musicians.

Open source everything

Songs, lyrics, money, dashboards. The whole studio, out in the open.

Come make music with us

Paid roles, all fully remote. Social, vocals, production.

Join us now

Data science for music

We love data science for music.

We dig into the numbers behind the musicians we admire: where their audiences live, how they broke through, and what actually works. Real data from public sources, written up so any artist can learn from it.

HOME Nashville

SonReal

Zapapaya

ActualOz

See all our data work

What we make

Our Music and
Tech Projects.

Music, software, tools, and businesses we are building at The Studio. All in the open.

🎵 Music projectsMusic made in the open at The Studio.

Dlaney

The first artist of The Studio. Learning five instruments in a year and writing fifty songs in public. Warm, honest sunrise music about starting over.

20,370Total views

1,053Total plays

Spotify SoundCloud YouTube Dave’s website

Sally

The second artist of The Studio. She sings for the kids who have been through a lot, writing songs in a notebook she hides under her mattress. Her journal is where the songs begin.

Read her journal Instagram Sally’s website

Short Bus

An original musical from The Studio. One little yellow short bus, five days at Pine Lake Camp, and songs about finding your voice and the friends who sing you home.

11/15Songs recorded

Visit the project

Want to join a record label? Learn more here.

💻 Tech projectsSoftware and businesses we are building.

Lemonade Stand

A kids book about business. Leo turns a lemonade stand into a million-dollar company.

ONE.

The world's best AI agent operating system. Your entire life, run by agents.

Tugboat

Web design for Denver small businesses. Real audits, real fixes, free value first.

🧪 Experiments from the labLittle tools and experiments. Free and fun.

Jen AI

A helpful chatbot for stressed out musicians. Talk, plan, breathe.

MusicBot

Pick a song, play the easy notes. Real notation for beginners.

Equalizer

Play music out loud and watch it dance. A live mic visualizer.

BPM Tapper

Tap along to any song and get the tempo in BPM.

Stream Dream Crusher

How much have your streams actually paid you? Drag the slider. Scream.

Be Happy

One good thought at a time. New update every day.

🎭 Meet the CharactersThe cast of the Short Bus musical.

Meet the Characters

The $20 challenge

Get paid $20 to play an instrument for two months.

Learn an instrument for 60 days or get your first song up on the internet, and we will pay you $20.

Take the challenge

Open source

Dashboard.

We share everything. No secrets at The Studio. Everything is open to the public: all of our streams, data, sales, and more.

Dashboard Updated Sep 30, 2026 Streams 1,05321% of 5,000 goal Views 20,37041% of 50,000 goal Email subscribers 982 on Substack, as of Aug 31, 2026 View the Dashboard →

New music

Two albums.
Made in the open.

The most exciting thing happening at The Studio. We are writing and recording two full albums at the same time, and sharing the whole journey in real time.

Album one · Original cast recording