Software for arts organizations and the artists they serve. Apps for your students and residents, tools for your staff, and pages for your community, all on one platform your organization owns.
For arts nonprofits, music and art education programs, residencies, galleries, studios, and independent artists. Fixed scope, written up front, launched together.
Native apps on every device your people use, on one secure backend. Students, residents, teaching artists, staff, and families each get their own login and see only what they should.
Applications and panel review in one place, cohorts and schedules that update everyone at once, and announcements that actually get read.
Beats, images, video, and process, saved over a whole program with feedback from mentors and teachers. Private by default; artists choose what goes public.
One calendar for studios, galleries, and sessions, with requests and approvals built in. Public event pages with RSVPs and reminders for your community.
For independent artists: your own site with a store, memberships, and streaming, so your audience and income stay yours instead of a platform's.
The numbers funders ask for, from the work your program already does: participants, sessions, work made, feedback given. Ready for any date range.
Products the studio designs, builds, and runs itself, most of them for musicians and artists.
Direct-to-fan platform with a Stripe storefront, memberships, passkey and 2FA sign-in, an in-browser synth, and a 3D studio.
Live, earning revenueContent planning and publishing for musicians, with direct Instagram and TikTok integrations.
On the App StoreGuitar practice tools with real-time, on-device pitch and chord detection.
App Store / TestFlightAn interactive album-game in 3D, built with Three.js and the Web Audio API.
Playable on nessnite.artPre-show checks for Ableton Live sets. Catches problems before you walk on stage.
MIT, on GitHubValidates music distributor deliveries: UPC check digits, ISRCs, track numbering, writer credits.
MIT, on GitHubWe learn how your programs actually run before proposing anything. You get a written scope, price, and launch date.
Your staff test real software from early on, not slides. A short update lands every Friday.
Every platform launches on the same day, so nobody waits because of the phone they have. Training and guides included.
Apps are published under your organization's own accounts, and we handle the setup with you. Four milestone payments, and a 30-day fix window after launch.
Unusual Assembly is the software studio of Ness Reliford, a full-stack and iOS engineer who has also been a working artist and music producer for more than ten years, and who teaches music production.
That's the point. We've been the artist, the teacher, and the small organization running on spreadsheets and group texts, so we build for the people who will actually use the tool.
We work with AI coding agents under strict review, which is how a small studio ships in weeks instead of months.
Tell us about your organization and what your staff does by hand today. We'll reply with questions first, then a first take on scope.