But beneath the idyllic surface is a darkly modern tale of obsession and paranoia fueled by instruments of a digital age.
Sally Beamish's Commedia, now 10 years old, is a theatre piece without actors, an imaginary Italian comedy in which the familiar Commedia dell'Arte characters such as Harlequin, Pierrot and Pucinella are represented by instruments of the ensemble.
Some of these the "Nemesis", with Great Fortune teetering on her globe, the "Melancholia 1", with Melancholy surrounded by instruments of learning, and the "St Jerome", with the saint sitting snugly in his cell with dog and lion already qualified as bestsellers.
Cobble together your own portfolio consisting of Gilder Telecosm stocks, hedged by instruments of your own liking.
This essay aims to identify the indicators of measurement of land consumption caused by instruments of urban planning in order to support as well during a strategic environmental evaluation polices of territorial government aiming at models of sustainable urban development.
In this setting of looming darkness populated by instruments of technology, the recorded human voice becomes the equivalent of firelight gathering listeners to it.
Here was a musician assembling, detail by detail and instrument by instrument, some of the most despondent and prophetic songs of a career full of them.
The technique has been developed by the company INZO° and predicts the body composition by an instrument of impedance, which was calibrated through the chemical analysis of birds.
If it's soup, it obviously does, but a new paper suggests we're unknowingly influenced by the instrument of our choice even with foods that can be picked up by either.
"You have to had shed blood by an instrument of war at the hands of the enemy of the United States," he said.
