Cohort Music Lab
Cohort Music Lab is a live music production workshop. You join a small randomized cohort on the kickoff night, receive a creative prompt, and spend the production window writing, recording, and mixing original music. The lab ends with a live showcase for the community.
$55 to join. See upcoming labs →
Members arrive at the venue and are placed into small randomized cohorts of 3–6 musicians. Each cohort receives the creative prompt for the lab and walks away with a private group workspace, a shared asset vault for stems and demos, a master notes doc, and a Kanban board for session planning. Cohorts are intentionally cross-disciplinary — songwriters with producers, vocalists with instrumentalists — so collaboration patterns form quickly.
Cohorts use the Cohort platform end-to-end during the production window. Sessions and call sheets live in the Kanban board. Lyrics, chord charts, and song structure live in the master notes. Stems, rough mixes, and reference tracks are uploaded to the shared asset vault — every audio file gets a streamable waveform proxy so cohort members can review takes in the browser. Review comments are threaded directly on the file so feedback never gets lost in chat.
At the end of the production window the entire community returns for the showcase. Every cohort performs live (or plays back their final recording) for an audience of members, alumni, and invited guests. The recordings are archived in each cohort's workspace and the credits are pre-attached to every contributor's Cohort profile and to the public Cohort Yearbook entry for the lab.
Two showcase nights, the production workspace (chat / asset vault / Kanban / master notes), randomized placement into a cohort, waveform proxies for every audio file your cohort uploads, a public credit on finished original music, an entry in the Cohort Yearbook, and a permanent member profile with portfolio support for your recorded work.
A Cohort Music Lab is a live music production sprint where songwriters, producers, vocalists, and instrumentalists are placed into small randomized cohorts and given a creative prompt. Over the production window each cohort writes, records, mixes, and performs original music. The lab ends with a live showcase for the entire community.
Songwriters, producers, vocalists, instrumentalists, beatmakers, mixing engineers, and anyone who wants to make finished original music collaboratively. Past cohorts have included first-time writers alongside working session musicians and label-signed producers.
$55 per member, which covers your seat at the kickoff and showcase nights, the production workspace tools (chat, shared asset vault for stems and demos, master notes, Kanban board for session planning), and the venue. There is a $1 authorization hold for payment verification that is released automatically within 7 days.
Music Labs currently run in New York City with expansion in progress. Check the events page for the next confirmed lab in your city.
Finished original music co-owned by your cohort, a public showcase performance, a credit on the Cohort Yearbook entry for the lab, a profile page on Cohort with the credits attached, and a working network of musicians and producers in your city.
No — cohorts are mixed-discipline by design. The producers and engineers in your group typically bring the recording rig. The workspace is designed to coordinate sessions, stems, and revisions across the full production window.
A kickoff night where cohorts are formed and the prompt is delivered, a production window where each cohort writes and records, and a live showcase where every cohort performs or plays back what they made. Both bookend nights run 7pm–9pm Eastern.
Looking for the film edition? See the Cohort Film Lab. Curious what past cohorts shipped? Browse the Yearbook.