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Dying with AIDS/Living with AIDS: 1991-1992. Dorion, Muses’ Company, 1993.\\n\"},{\"url\":\"https://www.vehiculepress.com/q.php?EAN=9781550650150\",\"citation\":\"Godin, Gérard. Evenings at Loose Ends. Translated by Judith Cowan, Montréal, Véhicule Press, 1991. \"},{\"url\":\"\",\"citation\":\"Tommy James & The Shondells. \\\"Crimson and Clover.\\\" Roulette, 1968.\"},{\"url\":\"https://search.worldcat.org/title/25965125?oclcNum=25965125\",\"citation\":\"Henderson, Keith. The Beekeeper. Montreal: DC Books, 1990. \"},{\"url\":\"https://www.worldcat.org/title/31331446\",\"citation\":\"Filip, Raymond. After the Fireworks. Montreal: Guernica, 1989.\"},{\"url\":\"https://search.worldcat.org/title/1975386\",\"citation\":\"Farkas, Endre. Szerbusz. Montreal: DaVinci Press, 1974.\"},{\"url\":\"https://search.worldcat.org/title/10156570\",\"citation\":\"Farkas, Endre. From Here to Here. 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The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:00:01\nLee Gotham and Audience_Member2 misspeak. Michael Longley is misnomered as Michael Langley, and Ciaran Carson is misnomered as Ciaran Colours.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:01\n[Thanks audience. Explains that the event is a benefit for En Marge, a street kids shelter. Explains there will be opportunities to buy a raffle ticket for a bundle of three to five collections of poetry. Explains that ticket stubs also serve as a raffle ticket for “small press prizes.” Announces that Michael Langley will perform at Concordia University’s Hall Building on February 16th. Announces Ciaran Colours will perform on March 6th.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding and occasionally reading from a small notebook. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nAudience_Member1\n00:03:09\nVideo Description: Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 walks in front of camera. Side profile of face takes up whole shot. \n\nAudience_Member2\n00:03:11\n[Corrects Gotham that the aforementioned poet’s name is “Longley” not “Langley.” Repeats date and venue details. Mentions that Longley won the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Mentions that Ciaran Colours won the first T.S. Eliot Prize.] | Video Description: Audience_Member2 off-screen. Extreme closeup as Audience_Member1 moves forward and back, making their head periodically obscure the screen again. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:03:34\n[Says those are some “serious verses.” Mentions that “assistant” in a red bandana will be walking around selling raffle tickets for poetry collection bundles from The Muses’ Company, Véhicule Press, and DC Books, including Steve Luxton and Robert Allen’s works. Introduces Robert Allen as one of his favourite alumni from Concordia. Invites Allen to the stage to read from novels, poetry collections, and Moosehead Anthologies he has been a part of. Mentions Allen is a new editor at Matrix Magazine.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, reading from a notebook.\n\nRobert Allen\n00:05:48\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver Wedding Poem.”] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Allen wears a grey long-sleeve plaid shirt with black buttons and a black hood, and slightly curly light brown chin-length hair. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:07:43\n[Explains that the next piece is about the plane crash of a French rugby team in the Andes mountains and it involves cannibalism. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Rugby Players Stranded in the Andes.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:10:59\n[Explains that the next piece is about the mail order pornography business. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Late Romantics.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen \n00:12:31\n[Explains that the next piece encapsulates nineteenth-century Russian literature in five lines. Introduces and performs a piece titled “A Sadder Scene Than You Know at Tolstoy(’s?) Station.”] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. \n\nRobert Allen\n00:13:12\n[Mentions he lives in the country with Anne Stone. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Mount Cloud.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Allen introduces and performs a piece. Zooms out to long shot as Allen leaves stage.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:15:19\n[Thanks Robert. Explains again how buying raffle tickets works. Introduces John, liaison to En Marge, to explain services. Invites John to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks to the audience. \n\nJohn \n00:16:46\n[Thanks everyone. Explains that En Marge works with youth experiencing “family and social rupture” to give unconditional acceptance in difficult times. Explains that many of the kids write poems, and he will read some to shed light on their experience. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Little Candle” by fifteen-year-old Amanda.] | Video Description: Closeup as John adjusts mic, speaks to audience, and performs piece. John wears a light pink t-shirt, black snapback hat with a beige brim worn backwards, full beard one inch long, and slightly curly hair past shoulders. \n\nJohn \n00:20:10\n[Mentions that drugs are a big part of street culture and larger culture, and that it can be a solution with consequences. Introduces and performs a piece written by seventeen-year-old Caroline titled “Junk Sick,” about trying to quit heroin. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience and performs piece. \n\nJohn \n00:21:38\n[Introduces and performs piece written by an Indigenous fourteen year old named Cindy in French. Performs again in English. Thanks audience. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as John speaks to audience, performs a piece, and speaks to audience again.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:23:01\n[Thanks John. Introduces Doug Isaac. Mentions Isaac’s poetry collection Past, Present: Tense will be published with Imperial (Note: book actually published with BuschekBooks, 2004.) Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:23:51\n[Introduces piece titled “Centres of Treatment” that is in part a homeless man’s verbatim dialogue, while the other half is dialogue written by Isaac. Says he will use different voices for each character.] | Video Description: Closeup as Isaac lowers the mic and speaks to the audience. Isaac wears a black button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows atop a white shirt that has an indiscernible pattern, and medium brown hair pushed back from face. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n00:25:00\nAt 00:25:51 and 00:26:04, Isaac says a racial slur. \n\nDouglas (Doug) Isaac\n00:25:05\n[Performs \"Centres of Treatment.\" Applause.] | Video Description: Zooms out to medium shot as Isaac performs a piece, alternating between performing into the mic and stepping slightly away from it. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:35:52\n[Thanks Isaac. Announces the prizes for the raffle. Calls someone from off screen to help on stage. Lists prizes, such as one copy each of Moosehead Anthology issue 13 and the “Forbidden Fiction” issue, one copy of Don Coles’ Little Bird (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1991), and one copy of Erin Mouré’s West South West (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1988? 1989?). Announces winner. Applause] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. Reads titles from books. Picks raffle number from person off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:37:54\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Grant Loewen’s Brick: Looking Up (DC Books, 1992.), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s “Forbidden Fiction” issue, and one copy of Jan Conn’s What Dante Did With Loss (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1994). Announces winner. Applause.] Video Description: Camera zooms out to long shot. Raffle assistant now visible. Grey plaid button-down shirt with sleeves rolled up to elbows, large wire-rimmed glasses, and blonde hair pushed back from face. Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number from person now visible on stage. Announces winner.\n\nLee Gotham\n00:38:57\n[Lists more prizes, such as one copy of Mark Leslie’s Dying with AIDS/living with AIDS: 1991-1992 (The Muses' Company, 1992), one copy of Steve Luxton’s Iridium (DC Books, 1993), one copy of Moosehead Anthology’s issue 13, and one copy of Gérard Godin’s Evenings at Loose Ends (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press], 1991). Announces winner.] | Video Description: Gotham reads titles from more books. Picks raffle number. Announces winner. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:39:53\n[Announces another draw from the door prize tickets. Announces winner. Announces prizes from Pawn Press and ga press. Notes there will be a total of four door prize raffles. Introduces Anne Stone. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham picks raffle number from a white plastic tub and announces winner. Zooms into closeup as Gotham introduces Anne Stone.\n\nAnne Stone \n00:41:41\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Desire is a Lodger.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. Stone wears a burgundy vest atop a white long-sleeve shirt, an oversized newsboy cap, and no hair showing underneath it.  \n\nAnne Stone \n00:44:14\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Calf’s Head Soup.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nAnne Stone\n00:45:43\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Carrying off the (?)” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Stone speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:48:41\nVideo Description: Medium long shot as Gotham approaches the mic. \n\n[No signal]\n00:48:44\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n00:49:16\n[End of recording.] \n\nPART 2\n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n00:00:14\nVideo Description: Color video of the stage with mic stand at Bistro 4 (Quatre) (4040 St. Laurent, Montréal, QC, H2W 1Y8, Canada). The stage, slightly below street level, is set against a full-wall window looking out onto the St. Laurent Blvd. traffic—with both pedestrians and vehicles often passing by. The windows from across the street are sometimes visible, including an outdoor sign with the word “JETHRO.”  On the windows of Bistro 4, the word “said” (from “Enough Said”) becomes visible when the camera zooms out, as well as decals with words from the menu, such as “DEJEUNER,” “CAPPUCCINO,” and “TISANE.”\n\nLee Gotham \n00:00:15\n[Reads obituary for Manuel Betanzos Santos.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. Gotham wears a black-and-white knit sweater with geometric designs and sleeves rolled up to elbows and straight shoulder-length hair.\n\nLee Gotham \n00:02:25\n[Apologizes for talking about the raffle so much. Encourages people to buy tickets because there are many prizes. Introduces Raymond Filip. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic, takes white card from off-screen, and reads from it.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:04:17\n[Mentions he was just at Manuel’s funeral. Reminisces about choking Devil’s Disciples member Michael French in the sixth grade. Explains childhood in Pointe-St-Charles and Verdun. Introduces and performs a piece titled “Flower Fights in the [?] Freight Yards”  from the collection “Flowers in Magnetic Fields” (Guernica Editions, 1994.)] | Video Description: Varying between medium shots and closeups as Filip speaks into the mic. Medium shot as Filip performs a piece, ending on an extreme closeup. Filip wears a dark plaid sport coat atop a brown button-down shirt, brown shaggy hair, mustache, and chin beard. \n\n[SpokenWeb notes]\n0:09:34\t\nIn the following performance, Raymond Filip uses an outdated term in reference to a cross-dressing man.\n\nRaymond Filip\n00:09:34\n[Explains more about growing up in Pointe-St-Charles. Introduces and performs piece called “Transvestite at his Toilette.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Filip speaks into the mic and flips through the copy of “Flowers in Magnetic Fields.”  Medium shot as Filip performs a piece. \n\nRaymond Filip\n00:14:36\n[Explains that Lithuania is a long-suffering country that inspired his self-described “oratorial” about the story of God. Performs piece. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Filip speaks into mic and shows the audience large prints of the Hill of Crosses in Lithuania and other places in the country. Zooms into closeup as Filip performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:21:55\n[Thanks Filip. Announces a break. Begins to announce next raffle draw.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nColin Christie and Corey Frost\n00:27:37\n[Colin Christie and Corey Frost in media res performing a piece about suicide. Alternate between singing songs such as “Crimson and Clover” by Tommy James & The Shondells (Roulette, single, 1968), vocally imitating vehicles, and performing the piece. Play the children’s clapping game “Miss Mary Mack.” Applause.] | Video Description: Long shot of Christie and Frost performing a piece without mics, singing, walking around the stage area, gesturing, and becoming different characters for an embodied and theatrical performance. Christie wears a light blue long-sleeved plaid shirt open atop a black shirt, a necklace, and light brown hair. Frost wears a plaid vest atop a medium blue plaid shirt, a necklace with a large gold ring, and long curly dark brown hair. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:28:45\n[Announces raffle draw. Thanks audience for coming out. Lists prizes, including one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper (DC Books, 1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks (Guernica, 1989), [?] [Norris?] collection, and rocks between the dead (?). Announces Endre Farkas will perform next. Invites Farkas to the stage.] | Video Description: Long shot zooms into medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic. Reads titles from books. Zooms into loose closeup as Gotham introduces Endre Farkas. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:31:09\n[Announces a collaborative performance with Suzanne Nuttall on March 27th, 1995 at Enough Said. Mentions that a reporter Juliet Waters of The Montreal Mirror called him a “literary sperm salesman.” Says he will defend himself by reading the letter he wrote to The Montreal Mirror. Reads letter beginning with the line “Not only is Miss Waters ignorant in referring to the Muses [Farkas’ publishing company, The Muses’ Company] as ‘literary sperm salesmen’ but she is also a sexist [Sal?]” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup of Farkas speaking into the mic. Zooms into closeup as Farkas reads letter. Farkas wears a black, long-sleeved collared shirt and a dark moustache, and is balding on top of head. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:37\nCan I read my letter? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:33:45\n[Addressing Nelson] Oh, you wanna do it now? | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks to Nelson. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:33:47\n[Announces she will deliver her letter to The Montreal Mirror. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson adjusts mic and speaks into it. Nelson wears a dark brown vest a top a floral print collared shirt a top a white shirt, thin silver chain, medium brown hair in a loose ponytail. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:01\n[Addressing Nelson] Why is this happening now? | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:03\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] I don’t know, because Endre started it. | Video Description: Loose closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member3\n00:34:05\n[Addressing Nelson] This isn’t The Mirror’s [evening?] | Video Description: Off-screen\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n00:34:08\n[Addressing Audience_Member3] Um, it is in a way. | Video Description: Closeup zooms into extreme closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham\n00:34:11\nWell, the notice was specifically about this evening. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n00:34:14\n[Reads letter to The Montreal Mirror beginning with the line “Juliette Waters described participants in the February 13th En Marge benefit at Bistro Quatre as ‘literary sperm salesmen.’” Applause.] | Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:36:23\n[Mentions he will read love poetry. Performs a piece titled “Wandering Gypsy” from his collection “Szerbusz” (DaVinci Press, 1974). Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:38:13\n[Introduces and performs “A Vegetarian Ear Eater” dedicated to professional wrestler Killer Kowalski. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas\n00:41:58\n[Introduces and performs prose poem from his collection From Here to Here (The Muses' Company, 1982) beginning with the line “To get there, you take all sorts of roads.” Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot as Farkas speaks into the mic. Zooms into loose closeup as Farkas performs a piece.\n\nEndre Farkas \n00:45:50\n[Introduces and performs piece for his daughter Katherine titled “Why I Didn’t Write You a Poem on Your Birthday.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas \n00:47:29\n[Introduces and performs a parody of Ginsberg’s “Sunflower Sutra” called “Maple Leaf Rag.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nEndre Farkas\n00:51:26\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Heirloom” dedicated to A.M. Klein from new collection titled Surviving Words (The Muses' Company, 1994.) Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Farkas speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n00:54:16\n[Skips to Gotham introducing Steve Luxton.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms into closeup as Gotham speaks into mic. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:55:08\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Hermit Crab Song.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. Luxton wears a red button-down shirt, round metal-rimmed glasses, wavy blonde ear-length hair. \n\nSteve Luxton\n00:56:19\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Bedouin Song.”] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton \n00:58:32\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “[Joining?] on de Bullion Street.” Applause.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Luxton speaks into mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:00:11\n[Mentions he went to an American school for writing under the “founding confessionalist poet” W.D. Snodgrass. Performs a piece beginning with the line “The writer is middle age.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup zooms out to medium shot as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSteve Luxton\n01:02:22\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Sweeney Todd.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into loose closeup as Luxton speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:05:52\n[Announces there will be two more raffle draws and two more door prize draws. Introduces Sharon H. Nelson to the stage. Applause.] | Video Description: Medium long shot of Gotham speaking into the mic. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:07:01\n[Thanks Gotham. Introduces and performs piece titled “How to Read a Poem” from her collection A Room of One’s Own (unable to find this collection online.) Applause] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:10:15\n[Introduces and performs piece titled “Sometimes I Think of You” about Montreal artist Seymour Segal, who designed the covers for Nelson’s collections The Work of Our Hands (The Muses' Company, 1992) and Grasping Men’s Metaphors. Applause.] | Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic, shows the audience two books, and performs a piece. \n\nSharon H. Nelson \n01:18:36\n[Seems to ask Gotham how long she has left to read.] | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:18:40\n[Says Nelson should do one more.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSharon H. Nelson\n01:18:47\n[Introduces and performs piece inspired by “Last Dance at the Four Penny” by Leonard Cohen titled “Freylekh” from her collection Grasping Men’s Metaphors (The Muses' Company, 1993). Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Nelson speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:26:23\n[Thanks Nelson. Invites Ian Ferrier to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium closeup zooms out to medium long shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nIan Ferrier \n01:26:47\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] Video Description: Unzipped black winter jacket atop a black graphic t-shirt with a white logo, dark brown hair with a strip shaved out of it from above left eye to crown of head. Medium shot zooms into closeup as Ferrier adjusts the mic, speaks into the mic, and performs a piece.\n\nIan Ferrier \n01:31:36\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “The Theatre of Three AM.” Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nIan Ferrier\n01:33:03\n[Introduces and performs a piece titled “Politician.” Laughter throughout. Applause.] | Video Description: Closeup as Ian Ferrier speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\n[Bistro 4 stage]\n01:35:40\n[Ambient noise, applause.] | Closeup zooms out to a long shot of the lone mic on the stage. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:35:55\n[Announces the last two raffle draws. Lists prizes, including one copy of Gary Geddes’ Light of Burning Towers (Signal Editions, [Véhicule Press],1990), one copy of Raymond Filip’s After the Fireworks, one copy of Moosehead Anthology, and one copy of Keith Henderson’s The Beekeeper. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into mic, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner a stack of books. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:38:05\n[Lists prizes, including one tape of ga press poetry performances and one copy of issue one and one copy of issue two of Pawn Press’s literary/cultural journal. Announces winning number. Gives winner prizes.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic while holding a casette and two thin volumes, reads number off of piece of paper, and gives raffle winner prizes. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:39:32\n[Introduces Sonja Skarstedt. Mentions that she is the editor of Empyreal Press. Applause throughout.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:05\nCan you introduce Sonja first, please? She has waited so long. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:08\n[Introduces Skarstedt again. Invites her to the stage.] | Video Description: Medium shot as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nAudience_Member1\n01:40:21\nAnd a damn fine poet in her own right. | Video Description: Off-screen. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:40:22\n[Echoes Unknown_Audience1. Notes that first edition of Empyreal's existence will be read from.] | Video Description: Loose closeup as Gotham speaks into the mic. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:40:46\n[Introduces and performs ekphrastic piece titled “Blue Teardrop” written about a painting by a seven-year-old girl.] | Video Description: Medium shot zooms into medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. Skarstedt wears a purple sweater, striped scarf in various shades of purple, light brown shoulder length hair tucked behind ears, and long hanging earrings. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:43:20\n[Introduces and performs titular piece from second manuscript titled Demolition Symphony (Empyreal Press, 1995). Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece. \n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:46:35\n[Introduces and performs “voyeuristic” piece titled “Rue de l’Esplanade: Voyeurs.” | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic and performs a piece.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:48:55\nAm I running out of time? | Video Description: Medium closeup as Skarstedt speaks into the mic. \n\nLee Gotham \n01:48:57\nDo another! [Applause.] | Video Description: Off-screen.\n\nSonja Skarstedt\n01:49:05\n[Introduces and performs a “typical Montreal poem” about the Montreal International Jazz Festival titled “Street Fest in the Key of J.” Applause.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as s introduces a piece. Zooms into closeup as Skarstedt performs a piece. \n\nLee Gotham\n01:52:57\n[Thanks Skarstedt. Announces Skarstedt will perform with Lynn Suderman next month. Thanks performers and audience for attending.] | Video Description: Medium closeup as Gotham runs left hand through hair and speaks into the mic.\n\n[Audience]\n01:54:02\nVideo Description: Zooms out to show audience putting on jackets and talking to each other. \n\n[No signal]\n01:54:08\n[Ambient sounds (white noise).] | Video Description: Black screen with static. \n\nEND \n01:54:16\n[End of recording.] "],"score":4.6228104}]