Katie Alice Greer

-Rent/utilities/groceries: I'm grateful that I've been able to do freelance work from home this year since I'm no longer in a professionally touring band (not that I'd be able to make a living that way during the pandemic, anyway), but often that means I'm working long hours on projects that, while rewarding, keep me from finishing my primary goal. I'd like to keep doing stuff like that (please keep hiring me for remote audio/video production work) but have more financial ability to focus on finishing this album, which doesn't immediately translate to a paycheck while I'm working on it.

-Mastering: (for digital and any other format) I want this album to sound good! Any self-recording musician can tell you that you'll learn a lot about your own work from this process. But I don't want that to carry over into mastering-- I don't know aaanything about this very necessary step, and I got no plans to start right now. So I'd like to send this off to much more capable, experienced hands, ensuring things sound the way they should.

-Graphic design/artwork: (album packaging, formatting digital graphics, possibly music videos or other visual work associated with the album) not as essential as mastering, but I'd  love to have the option to collaborate with other artists in creating the visual communication for this album. I've only ever made my own music videos or worked with bandmates on album art. It'd be fun to hire someone with a different skill set to actualize some ideas that I don't quite have the technical ability to translate out of my head.

-Physical production: (I don't know when live performance will be safe again, and thus I don't think it'd be wise for me to invest my money or yours into pressing vinyl or cds or anything else for the time being. But, I'd like to physically produce this album eventually)

-Release campaign marketing costs: PR, college and/or internet radio promotion, distribution marketing (this means anything from online banners in web stores to window clings in physical record stores... again, the latter is not something I'd invest in until it makes sense) Regardless of when I'm able to promote the album with live shows, I'll need to invest in promoting the album when it is released. I've worked hard on it, and I want people to know it exists.

-Merchandise: this might overlap with the 'artwork' budget depending on the form it takes, but it also includes the wholesale cost of materials used whether they're t-shirts, posters, tube socks, coffee mugs, another idea you as a patron suggest to me (definitely looking for patron input here)

-Collaborators: This album is entirely written and produced by me. At this point, 90% of the performances are me as well, but that's only for practical reasons-- the pandemic makes it pretty hard to play music with other people. Two very generous friends offered to play guitar on a couple tracks, but I'd really like to compensate them for their work and I don't want to ask anybody else if they can play on here without being able to pay them as well. I am totally fine with creating on a budget, I've never really been in a position to do it another way and find it often inspires a lot of creativity ("I dont have money for ____ so instead I'll ___") but: I can't help but occasionally think about what it might sound like if I could hire, say, a harpist I know to add an arrangement to a bridge, or pay a talented friend who is likely also a pandemic cash strapped artist, to interpret something I've written with a MIDI instrument on an analog one remotely from their home. It's not essential, but it'd be nice to have the option.