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Artist Music Journal Vol. 1, Ed 03

Soundscreen Design
amj03 - 2009
This limited edition small book series, focuses on the inseparable connection between music and art. The book is limited to 1,000 hand numbered copies, printed on thick stock, offset, box-scored and saddle stitched, and comes packaged in a 10 inch jacket. There is a letterpressed sticker wrapping the opening of the jacket with a replication of the artist's signature, the volume, installment number, and edition.

Daniel Higgs is a musician and artist from Baltimore, Maryland, who has been a contributor to the independent art and music community for nearly 3 decades. His artistic work ranges from musical records to books of poetry to visual collections of his drawing, painting and collage work.

Higgs is known primarily for his work as the sole lyricist and frontman of the band Lungfish, a four-piece juggernaut who has released over 10 full lengths in their 20+ year career. In recent years, Higgs has released a number of solo outings including the record / book combination Atomic Yggdrasil Tarot. On much of his solo work, Higgs uses very varied instrumentation, including acoustic and electric guitar, upright pianos, banjo and Jews harp, and generally records entirely at home on cassette recorder.

Higgs has always worked in the mediums of music and art simultaneously, and for his Artist Music Journal Higgs mined his archives and notebooks from the past 10+ years. The original works were photographed to scale.