ARTWORK TO THE PRINTER

For the past several months I have been creating illustrations for each poem that will appear on the upcoming release. We are making a book for the new CD and the artwork has been sent off to the printers. Woo Hoo!!

Reuben Butchart & The Millworkers' album
"Nameless and Awake; Eight Poems by John William Carroll"
will feature all the songs developed at Watermill.

We wanted to share with you the cover of the CD.

xo
Reuben.

WATERMILL CD MASTERING

Hello People,

The mastering for the CD will be delivered to me this week by Fred Kevorkian, a brilliant mastering engineer and an all around nice guy. Will keep you appraised of what's next.

Fred Kevorkian works out of Avatar Studios in New York City: www.kevorkianmastering.com

xo
Reuben

THE GULL AND I (VIDEO)

Hello,

I've been spending the past few months working with Ryan Ball on the final mixes and I am happy to report that the songs are sounding amazing. Ryan is doing an incredible job.

Meanwhile, Mark Robert Jackson has been getting footage of our residency at Watermill into the computer so that editing the full-length documentary can begin.

To give you all a mini-preview of both we have edited some of the footage with the mix of one song: The Gull and I. The poem and an early demo were featured in an earlier post on this blog. Look at how far we've come.

thanks,
Reuben.

SUNG POEMS LIVE

Hello,

The folks at the Watermill Center have invited us to present our sung poems live at a showcase of past Watermill Residency participants. This even marks the New York City premiere of the songs composed by me to John Carroll's poems.

The event is May 18th at the Elebash Recital Hall

The Graduate Center.
365 Fifth Avenue (at 34th St.)
New York, New York

For more event details, click here.

Please join us for a multi-genre event in a great recital hall.

Thanks,
Reuben.

MIXING BEGINS

Hello People,

I'm excited to announce that the producing work is complete.
Today I bring all 8 songs to the mixing engineer
to get that phase of the project started.

I will be working with the talented engineer, Ryan Ball,
of the The Gearbox.



Will keep everyone posted as the songs progress.

Thanks,
Reuben.

IN THE BASEMENT STUDIO

Hello Folks,

Just wanted to let you all know where we stand with the Watermill Project....

After making the raw recordings at the Watermill Center, I have been working for some months in my basement studio as producer -- making arrangement decisions, recording some overdubs of additional instruments, and getting the best vocal takes I can muster. Most of the 8 songs are ready to be handed off to a mixer. There are just two more that need a little bit more massaging.

After the album is mixed, we'll start looking into packaging for the CD and manufacturing options.

In the meantime, we are trying to raise funds so that we can begin the project of editing Director Mark Robert Jackson's footage documenting the recording sessions at Watermill. We hope to make a feature length documentary. Folks who want to be a part of the project are encouraged to make a donation using the form at the left side of this blog.

Thanks to every one for your support, interest, and patronage.

Be well,
Reuben.

POETRY PROJECT AT ST. MARKS CHURCH

NEW YEAR'S DAY - 35th Annual Marathon Reading

Please join me at St. Mark's Church on New Year's Day for the annual marathon event, starting at 2 pm and going well into the night.

I'll perform a song based on a poem by John Carroll developed at our Watermill Residency. I go on around 9 pm.

Thursday, January 1, 2009
The Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church
131 E. 10th Street, New York City

Poets and performers include: Bruce Andrews & Sally Silvers, Arthur’s Landing (Ernie Brooks, Steven Hall & Peter Zummo), Vyt Bakaitis, Jim Behrle, Martine Bellen, Anselm Berrigan, Edmund Berrigan, Barbara Blatner, Justin Bond, Donna Brook, Franklin Bruno, Tisa Bryant, Peter Bushyeager, Reuben Butchart (w/ John Carroll), Steve Cannon, Yoshiko Chuma, Todd Colby, John Coletti, CAConrad, Corina Copp, Brenda Coultas, Geoffrey Cruickshank-Hagenbuckle, Mónica de la Torre, Katie Degentesh, Barry Denny, Maggie Dubris, Douglas Dunn, Marcella Durand, Steve Earle, Will Edmiston, Marty Ehrlich, Joe Eliot, Laura Elrick, Avram Fefer, Bonny Finberg, Jess Fiorini, Corrine Fitzpatrick, Foamola, Merry Fortune, Tonya Foster, David Freeman, Ed Friedman, Joanna Fuhrman, Cliff Fyman, Drew Gardner, John Giorno, John Godfrey, Abraham Gomez-Delgado, Sylvia Gorelick, Stephanie Gray, Ted Greenwald, John S. Hall, Janet Hamill, Diana Hamilton, David Henderson, Bob Hershon, Mitch Highfill, Bob Holman, Erica Hunt, Brenda Iijima, Lisa Jarnot, Hettie Jones, Patricia Spears Jones, Pierre Joris, Erica Kaufman, Lenny Kaye, Evan Kennedy, Aaron Kiely, Paul Killebrew, David Kirschenbaum, Bill Kushner, Paul La Farge, Susan Landers, Denize Lauture, Joseph Legaspi, Joel Lewis, Rachel Levitsky, Brendan Lorber, Filip Marinovic, Susan Maurer, Gillian McCain, Tracy McTague, Taylor Mead, Jonas Mekas, Jennifer Monson, Rebecca Moore, Tracie Morris, Gina Myers, Eileen Myles, Marc Nasdor, Murat Nemet-Nejat, Jim Neu, Richard O’Russa, Akilah Oliver, Geoffrey Olsen, Dael Orlandersmith, Yuko Otomo, Ron Padgett, Julie Patton, Yvette Perez, Nicole Peyrafitte, Wanda Phipps, Kristin Prevallet, Arlo Quint, Chris Rael, Lee Ranaldo, Citizen Reno, Frances Richard, Renato Rosaldo, Bob Rosenthal, Douglas Rothschild, Thaddeus Rutkowski, Tom Savage, Michael Scharf, Harris Schiff, David Shapiro, Elliott Sharp, Frank Sherlock, Nathaniel Siegel, Samita Sinha, Hal Sirowitz, Patti Smith, Christopher Stackhouse, Stacy Szymaszek, Anne Tardos, Cecil Taylor, Steven Taylor (w/ Debra Salvo), Susie Timmons, Rodrigo Toscano, David Vogen, Anne Waldman, Nicole Wallace, Jo Ann Wasserman, Phyllis Wat, Karen Weiser, Dustin Williamson, Max Winter, Don Yorty, Emily XYZ and more.

Admission: $17 general, $13 students & seniors, $10 members.

www.poetryproject.com
www.reubenbutchart.com
www.myspace.com/reubenbutchart