The education arm of AUSTERE · the agency for musicians
About the house

We’re the team
artists usually meet
after they sign.

Artist House is the education arm of AUSTERE, our agency for musicians. The agency does the work for clients; Artist House teaches everyone else how to do it themselves — with the same team behind both.

NATASHA BRITO · FOUNDERIH/24 · 002
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How we got here

Two halves of the same work.

Natasha Brito left her post as Creative Director at Sony Music to build the agency she’d wished existed for the artists she was developing inside the label. That agency is AUSTERE — the white-glove team doing visual identity development, marketing plans, social strategy, social media management, playlisting, and ad campaigns for the artists who hire us to run it for them.

AUSTERE works directly with a small number of clients at a time. That ceiling is structural — quality of work depends on it. But the same week she launched AUSTERE, Natasha also released the Iconic Artist Blueprint — the full curriculum she’d wished her Sony artists had had from day one. Within a year, independents in dozens of countries were studying it. Most of them wanted the playbook more than the retainer. They had the course. And they kept showing up with the same follow-up questions.

Artist House was the answer to those questions. The same plays the agency runs — identity, ads, marketing, socials — taught, coached, and put into your hands. For the artists who are DIYing it themselves and want the real playbook, not a watered-down version.

Over time Natasha cherry-picked her favourite industry people to join both teams — one specialist per craft. A platinum-certified manager for management questions. A working A&R for demo review. A label-level media buyer for advertising. A working mindset coach. They run inside the agency. They also run inside the house.

AUSTERE does it for you. Artist House teaches you to do it yourself.

What the house believes

Five working principles.

01

Identity first.

Aesthetic, audience, and ad spend all follow archetype. Not the other way around.

02

Numbers are music too.

We respect the spreadsheet. Streams, ad spend, CPCs — read your numbers like a melody.

03

Open the playbook.

Anything AUSTERE runs for its agency clients, Artist House teaches its members to run themselves.

04

Slow is fast.

Virality is downstream of presence. The slow work compounds. Hacks don’t.

05

Artists, not users.

Never ‘creators.’ Never ‘users.’ The work is for artists, addressed to artists.

AUSTERE is for artists who want it done for them. Artist House is for artists who want to run it themselves.
— NATASHA BRITO · FOUNDER, AUSTERE + ARTIST HOUSE
The other half

AUSTERE does it for you.

AUSTERE is our agency. Visual identity development, marketing plans, social strategy, social media management, playlisting, and ad campaigns, run by us for a small number of artists at a time. If you want the work done for you instead of taught to you, that’s where to start.

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The next step

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