An invitation
Dada Duende Record Club would like to invite you to contribute work for our fourth official volume for the subscription. We are soliciting musical, visual, and literary work for our next set. Each set contains a lathe-cut record, a soft cover visual and literary art book, and an 8x8 pigment print of a piece from the book. Each of our sets is prompted by a theme, and this set’s theme is: The Body
NOTE: We are happily co-curating this volume with local Minneapolis musician and painter extraordinaire, Lucy Michell! Lucy will also be contributing the music for this set, and I can already tell you: it’s brilliant! xxHannah/DDRC
We wholeheartedly encourage you to take a look around on our site to find out what we are about. You can check out our previously published sets HERE
We feel that this theme is pretty darned wide open to interpretation. You can contribute work about your own body or other peoples’ bodies. You can contribute work about celestial bodies. You can contribute work about an embodiment of something. You can contribute work about a group or body of a people, bodies of work or bodies of water…you get the idea: It’s a pretty free and fun theme!
What we are asking of you:
Musicians: up to 7 minutes of original music inspired by or related to the theme (for example, a suite or two shorter songs). We will work with you regarding licensing and duration of use for the music. We will also work with you to record, mix, and master the music for our lathe-cut record medium
Literary Artists: 2-3 poems, or an essay, or a short work of fiction if you like. The world is your erster!
Visual Artists: 8-10 visual artworks in your wheelhouse (photography, illustration, collage, painting, printmaking, etc) to fit on pages sized 8.5x8.5 at 300 dpi resolution (if you are local and need my help with digitizing work I can do that!) — they do not have to be square, just letting you know what size page they will be on and print resolution.
One visual contribution will be chosen for the 8x8 pigment print that we include in our sets, it helps but is not required that you be open to us choosing your work for the print. We make a hundred of each themed set for subscribers, so we would make 100 prints of your work to be included with those (plus the artist-proof sets for each of our contributors). As I mentioned, you can opt out of this if you do not want us to use your work in this manner.
Due Date: we would need digital copies of your artwork ( visual art size specs listed above) to place in the book layout by April 18, 2024 Musicians can work directly with us to figure out schedules for recording and we hope to have that on track and in process by April 18 as well!
We would appreciate it if you accept or decline by March 22, to give us time to reach out to other artists if we need to.
If you decide that you want to be in on this one, you can go ahead and answer a few bio/info questions and save/upload your work HERE — you can fill out this google form in several sessions by saving your work and returning to it later if needed, though I promise it’s not too intensive. :)
PLEASE NOTE: should you choose to accept this mission, you do not have to create new work specifically for it, though you are welcome to and encouraged to, of course. We are sending you this invitation because we are familiar with your work and see things there that we feel fit this theme.
What do you get out of this? A chance to play, inspiration, and an opportunity to work with a community of other artists who you may or may not already know. It’s interesting to see/hear/read your work when paired with another artist’s musical/visual/literary response to the prompt. We strive to be inclusive and to build a community of both established and emerging artists. : )
As yet, we are not able to pay contributing artists, but we do give each of you 2 copies of the finished set (valued at $75 per)—one for you and one to share if you choose to. For now, we are only making 100 copies of each set (plus your/our artist’s proof copies), these go to our subscribers. For more info on what we are making, see our home page and our previous sets. At the time of sending this invite, Volume 3: Apophenia is being mailed out to subscribers and contributing artists, and we are super excited about it! You can see some of the contributing artists for that one by signing up for our weekly newsletter (note: I will be adding an artist bio webpage for Apophenia very soon).
And when we say this theme is wide open to interpretation, we mean it! Check out the following definitions, per Webster’s dictionary!
The Body
noun
pluralbodies
the main part of a plant or animal body especially as distinguished from limbs and head “she held her arms close to her body”
“a bird with a yellow body and head and black markings on its wings”
the main, central, or principal part: such as
(1) architecture : the nave of a church
(2): the bed or box of a vehicle on or in which the load is placed
the organized physical substance of an animal or plant either living or dead “She has a muscular body”
(1): the material part or nature of a human being “when the soul leaves the body”
(2): a dead organism : CORPSE
a human being : PERSON “What's a body to do?”
a mass of matter distinct from other masses “a body of water, the movements of celestial bodies”
something that embodies or gives concrete reality to a thing “his intuitions of the future may still give body to a better world”
also : a sensible object in physical space
AGGREGATE, QUANTITY a body of evidence
clothing : the part of a garment covering the trunk or torso the body of a wet suit
the main part of a literary or journalistic work “The body of the article is devoted to an analysis of the problem.”
the sound box or pipe of a musical instrument
a group of persons or things: such as
a fighting unit : FORCE a body of cavalry
a group of individuals organized for some purpose a legislative body
fullness and richness of flavor (as of wine)
VISCOSITY, CONSISTENCY—used especially of oils and grease
denseness, fullness, or firmness of texture Her hair lacks body and shine.
music: fullness or resonance (see RESONANCE sense 2) of a musical tone
verb
bodied; bodying
1: to give form or shape to : EMBODY
2: REPRESENT, SYMBOLIZE—usually used with forth “never been a poet who enjoyed the sensuous world with more gusto … or who more solidly bodied it forth”—Edmund Wilson
We encourage you to take a look around our site to get to know us, especially the Dada Duende Journal linked at the top of the page. Please know that if you are not able to opt in for this edition, we will happily reach out again in the future (unless you tell us not to!). You can also see some articles about DDRC HERE if interested
Thank you so much for considering this!
~Hannah Lynch, photographer and one of the cohort of Dada Duende Record Club based in Minneapolis, Minnesota