Brendan is creating Music
Queer power musician.
115
$842.50
Milestone Goals
3 Milestone Goals
reached
This is the cost of a professional engineer for a studio single like Stupid or Winner. Reaching this would mean the music is professionally engineered, mixed, mastered and released with a professional distributor. Released also through Bandcamp, Spotify an
A Producer - When you can employ a producer to work with you the work is infinitely benefited. The track would also be professionally engineered, mixed and mastered for release through Bandcamp, Spotify and iTunes.
A new music video to go with a Patreon release.
About
It's Brendan Maclean - yep - that one.
Location
Sydney NSW, Australia
Top PatronsSee all 115
;){kind=link}
;){kind=link}
Hey it's Brendan,
1. So here's the thing, Patreon is kinda the reverse of a Kickstarter. Instead of hoping a few people will dump a large some of cash for a unique reward what we're aiming for here is more people willing to offer a small amount per release so that everyone can share in the same music.
No one will get more stuff than anyone else, everyone will just get more music. It's artistic communism at it's best!
2. Second most obvious question: How many releases / how many times a year will you be taking my money Mrs Maclean?
Well for one, thats MS Maclean thank you very much. Look, I expect my Patreon releases to be up to be great quality. This isn't going to be some junk I record singing into my laptop. With that in mind I believe I can commit to one release every two months. A "release" could consist of a single, E.P. or live album recording and what have you.
So onwards to me and why I'm doing this now?
You know me - probably - that's how the internet works. You are here because we are friends, family, bandmates, gig-buddies, emotional support or perhaps just a well-wisher who happens to like a song of mine: Probably Stupid, that one did well didn't it?
In my career I've released music through Bandcamp for pay what you feel for the three years following my successful Kickstarter project. The funds raised meant I was able to sustain a life, audition, make new music and release it without too much PR hustle. I later was signed to Universal Publishing who allowed me to release one final EP through this system, the result "Thought I'd Cry For You Forever."
But now it's come time where I must release my singles through a more traditional approach - this being through iTunes with a distributor keeping watch over sales. Despite this being a positive step for my manager, publisher and royalties it does mean I lose control over what and when I'd like to release music - which is where Patreon comes in.
Patreon offers me an alternative route to make the music I like and give it directly to you. That makes me feel in control again and I hope sustains the more tangible relationship I love.
I'm not aiming to make a profit with Patreon, I want to have a cycle where the subscription goes directly to the engineers, musicians and independent release costs so you can see where your money is going. I've already got one live record ready to roll-out, this will be the first project of my Patreon and I can not wait to share it with you.
Stay in contact, tell me what you think I could make clearer, tell me where you'd want to see the money go. This project is not for making merchandise or higher physical sales - my Patreon will be only for what I know I am good at: writing and releasing songs within a "pay what you feel" system, which I believe is the honest future of music sales.
BM
x
1. So here's the thing, Patreon is kinda the reverse of a Kickstarter. Instead of hoping a few people will dump a large some of cash for a unique reward what we're aiming for here is more people willing to offer a small amount per release so that everyone can share in the same music.
No one will get more stuff than anyone else, everyone will just get more music. It's artistic communism at it's best!
2. Second most obvious question: How many releases / how many times a year will you be taking my money Mrs Maclean?
Well for one, thats MS Maclean thank you very much. Look, I expect my Patreon releases to be up to be great quality. This isn't going to be some junk I record singing into my laptop. With that in mind I believe I can commit to one release every two months. A "release" could consist of a single, E.P. or live album recording and what have you.
So onwards to me and why I'm doing this now?
You know me - probably - that's how the internet works. You are here because we are friends, family, bandmates, gig-buddies, emotional support or perhaps just a well-wisher who happens to like a song of mine: Probably Stupid, that one did well didn't it?
In my career I've released music through Bandcamp for pay what you feel for the three years following my successful Kickstarter project. The funds raised meant I was able to sustain a life, audition, make new music and release it without too much PR hustle. I later was signed to Universal Publishing who allowed me to release one final EP through this system, the result "Thought I'd Cry For You Forever."
But now it's come time where I must release my singles through a more traditional approach - this being through iTunes with a distributor keeping watch over sales. Despite this being a positive step for my manager, publisher and royalties it does mean I lose control over what and when I'd like to release music - which is where Patreon comes in.
Patreon offers me an alternative route to make the music I like and give it directly to you. That makes me feel in control again and I hope sustains the more tangible relationship I love.
I'm not aiming to make a profit with Patreon, I want to have a cycle where the subscription goes directly to the engineers, musicians and independent release costs so you can see where your money is going. I've already got one live record ready to roll-out, this will be the first project of my Patreon and I can not wait to share it with you.
Stay in contact, tell me what you think I could make clearer, tell me where you'd want to see the money go. This project is not for making merchandise or higher physical sales - my Patreon will be only for what I know I am good at: writing and releasing songs within a "pay what you feel" system, which I believe is the honest future of music sales.
BM
x