Thanks to:
Apoxode - bass, drums, guitar and synths
Javolenus – ebowed guitar

For the spoken word I found a bunch of quotes on the subject and arranged selections from them.
Let me know if that’s a copyright no-no.

Full many a glorious morn I have seen flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, kissing with golden face the meadows green, gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy. (William Shakespeare)

To transform private anguish into a narrative truth (Katherine Harrison)
the art of far and near
delightful to distort (Robert Morgan)
investing in a projection of something that doesn’t yet exist
turning something that was once in the mind into reality (Aml Ameen)
your memory and your senses
the nourishment of your creative impulse (Arthur Rimbaud)
awareness is the greatest alchemy (Rajneesh)
the light needs only our trust (Scott Hastie)
a dialogue (Cai Guo-Qiang)
the seductive alchemy of art (Katherine Harrison)