Month: February 2014

• The Aventine

  Troubles have a way of cropping up at bedtime, and the mind—sometimes—roils instead of settling. The music of Agnes Obel has helped draw the shroud of sleep over these past few months, and provided pacifying strains for a more restorative contemplation. We had the privilege of seeing her this evening. She was, quite simply, a […]

  R l powell

  February 21, 2014

  Performance

  Agnes Obel, Aventine, cello, inspiration, late-night, music, performance, piano, The Curse, violin

• Fragmentary, No. 3

  The objects of sense are supposed to be real—but in truth they are not. Only the atoms and the void are real. ♦ Democritus

  R l powell

  February 11, 2014

  Fragments

  atoms, Democritus, reality, space, the void