Rudi Kok

Pretoria (ZAF)
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iamnotRudi

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Location: Pretoria
Industry: Arts
Year Founded: 2021
Number Employees: 1-10 people
Business Stage: Creation/Idea
Entity Type: Not Incorporated
Description: The Why? The reason I have started this campaign is to lure you into my twisted little world and to seduce you with my songs and my humour. It is going to be a sensational ride and regardless of how badly I want to do it by myself, I just cannot now. I am trying to fund it through busking, but it is taking forever so, getting kind-hearted music/art lovers involved is the only logical thing for me to do. The How? I am creating an interactive reality show/documentary that will give my patrons, and then the world, a behind the scenes look at my creative process and the complete music production process. I have selected 34 of my own songs which, according to my music industry friends have the elementary requirements of a hit song from lyrics to melody to composition to hook etc. The campaign will run for 68 weeks (1 year and 3 months) Every second Monday, starting 22 February 2021, I will release an acoustic version of one of the 34 songs. Me and my production team will then have two weeks to produce, record, mix and master the song. This whole process will be video recorded and will be released as an episode. In the days leading up to the release, I will load content onto various platforms like YouTube, that will include limited behind the scenes footage as well as other footage like things I record during my busking tour (which is what I call walking around in the streets and playing wherever they do not chase me) And fun things happen during busking gigs. Lots of crazies about. I have thus far, acquired the services of a recording studio, a producer team, and a video editor. All the songs have been developed to the point where the structure and chords have been developed which means the instrumentation, tone etc., is all that must be completed and two weeks is more than enough for that. My patrons will be fully involved in the creative process meaning that as we develop the song, I will release certain elements to them and they will either vote on these elements or versions of a song or they will be able to give direct suggestions through live online interaction. From the first release, we will have a HIT METER, which will track the performance of the song. It will be judged according to criteria that I want to finalize with the input of some patrons, but I feel that it is important to have a visual indication of our performance. We will also have live studio sessions during vocal recording that can be accessed by interested patrons. After 11 songs have been completed, we will have a patron-only live online show and then at the completion of the project we will do two final patron only online live events. I am not done editing the intro videos (which I am doing myself, for some reason) but they will be up soon. The Goal? I have decided to change my strategy completely and focus on what I need to get this done. I don't need a thousand patrons; I only need 150. I have cancelled all other membership tiers and will have one tier only at a membership fee of $10 per month for the 15 month project. Remember you can cancel at any time if you are not happy with what I am doing. So the first 150 patrons will be the only 150 patrons. I will continue to take your feedback into consideration to make this community as mutually rewarding as possible. The beauty is that this whole thing is completely optional - YOU decide if you want to join and how much you would like to pledge, and every pledge is greatly appreciated. I hope that this is enough information to convince you to become a patron. If you have read this far and you cannot, for whatever reason, become a patron, may I ask you to please share my URL with your friends and connections. If you have questions or insults, please email (URL removed) I thank you once more and I hope to form a personal and lasting relationship with you all. Thank you i am not Rudi.