Genetics: A Visual Songbook

You can own a copy!

Until December 12th, as part of our Fundraiser [info], we are donating 50% of the profits from the sales of Genetics: A Visual Songbook to CONNECT (connectnyc.org), a NYC-based nonprofit organization dedicated to the elimination of family and gender violence. Click below to get a copy, in either the limited-edition hand bound or the magazine-bound versions. This is a great opportunity to get this collector’s item filled with imaginative artwork from both emerging and establised artists.

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What’s Inside

• 20 unique visual creations (one for each song)
• Artist bios and contact information
• Album lyrics
• Designer note
• Foreward by Agua Trip

Contributing Artists

• Erin Genevieve Barach
• Tanya Barach
• Kyla Barkin
• Chip Boles
• Ginger Burden Boise
• Megan Ellis
• William Gentry
• Jacob Gossett
• James Guastaferro
• Rachel Hall Kirk
• Mary Holm-Larsen
• Chris Johnson
• Alana Marcu
• Jackson Martin
• Jon McAuliffe
• Thomas Mullarney
• Raymond Patrick
• Chris Peck
• Brad Reagan
• Florencia Riegelhaupt

Excerpt from the foreward of Genetics: A Visual Songbook. By Agua Trip.

Over the last several years, we have enjoyed collaborating with a community of artists in the New York area and beyond in a variety of media. In the spirit of The Moveable Feast, we have all tried to support and promote each other’s work and open doors to new art forms and new collaborations. With the presentation of this "Visual Songbook" we are continuing this tradition and trying something new.

We invited 20 fellow artists from various ages, backgrounds, levels of experience, and locations to contribute a visible work of art. Each artist chose a song title from Genetics as a starting point for the creation of his/her piece. Some artists were already familiar with the songs, while most knew nothing more than the titles or a couple verses. One of the main experiments of this collection was to see what the artists would be inspired to do with the information they had and to see where their work would take us.

The result is a unique collection of paintings, sculpture, photography, drawings, and digital art that gives each song a visual substance and invites your imagination to explore all the (im)possible connections. Each piece is presented here along with the song lyrics for its corresponding song and some words about the artist...

...Each work was donated to Agua Trip with the understanding that it would be auctioned off, and the proceeds would be used for two purposes. Some would help cover the costs of this book and to support the production of Genetics. The rest would be returned to the New York Community as a donation to a local nonprofit organization called CONNECT, which is dedicated to ending family and gender violence. You can read about their work by visiting www.connectnyc.org. With this Visual Songbook, we are honored to be contributing to this cause and celebrating the worksof 20 talented artists. We are grateful for your support.