Half-Dream (from The Tubular West by Samuel Andreyev)
Track from the album The Tubular West by Samuel Andreyev (Torpor Vigil Records 2013). Montage of altered details from a painting, depicting Durie Street in Toronto circa 1948, attributed to Doris Aishford. [Steve Venright, TVR, 2013 & 2018] https://samuelandreyev.bandcamp.com/album/the-tubular-west
A selection of digitally transformed acrylic paintings by Steve Venright. Soundscape by the artist (from the album A NAtural History of Southwestern Ontario).
A Reminiscence on the Occasion of the Seventieth Birthday of the Author of A Trip Around Lake Ontario and Many Other Marvellous Travelogues, Memoirs, and Collections of Poetry.
Reading by Steve Venright in honour of David W. McFadden on the eve of what would have been his seventy-ninth birthday. Originally published in A Trip Around McFadden: A 70th-Birthday Festschrift, edited by Jim Smith and Stuart Ross (2010). Subsequently printed in The Least You Can Do Is Be Magnificent—a book of selected and new writings (compiled by Alessandro Porco) published by Anvil Press through Stuart Ross's "a Feed Dog book" imprint (2017).
Steve Venright self-portrait (2003) via Kodak technologies with subsequent Deep Dream processing (2016). Audio sampled from a 1999 piece by James Blight called A Reverberatory Furnace (a soundscape and music project with text and voice by SV).
Voyage of the cappuccinos
Soundtrack: Excerpt from pianist Finghin Collins' recording of Suite Bergamasque, L.75 - 3 "Clair de lune" (composed by Claude Debussy) used with kind permission.