Slow Ski

A new way to live mountains


Slow Ski is the new wave of skiing: an invitation to enjoy ski and snow with ease and slowness, enjoyng panoramics views and natural rhythms.
Slow Ski is the praise of the winter holiday to be spent without the frenzy of downhill skiing and incredible performances. This is a new approach to skiing, more relaxing, more user-friendly: in some ski resorts have already decided to equip the paths in this direction, providing them with comfortable benches and rest areas, to admire the surrounding views and to stop to breathe deeply, snow in sync with nature and embracing. The slow descent from the ski slopes is not taking speed on specific routes.
The trend, however, embraces more than one area and seems to know more fans of the genre: it is enough to mention the slow food culture to realize that in these frenetic times, on vacation you try just relaxing and find peace.
In an expression: slow ski.

Slow ski allows to enjoy the mountains in a more complete way
http://railaway.ffs.ch/snow-n-rail/tessin/

Slow dance vs. Fast dance

 Miss I have this dance?


Tango
Consists of a variety of styles that developed in different regions and eras of Argentina as well as in other locations around the world. The dance developed in response to many cultural elements, such as the crowding of the venue and even the fashions in clothing. The styles are mostly danced in either open embrace, where lead and follow have space between their bodies, or close embrace, where the lead and follow connect either chest-to-chest (Argentine tango) or in the upper thigh, hip area (American and International tango).

                                         Argentinue Tango - Slow pace in the plot of the bodies                                          http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jjdG32n2r_0

 

Salsa
Music suitable for dancing ranges from about 150 bpm (beats per minute) to around 250 bpm, although most dancing is done to music somewhere between 160–220 bpm. Every Salsa composition involves complex African percussion based around the Clave Rhythm (which has four types), though there can be moments when the clave is hidden for a while, often when quoting Charanga, Changüí, and Bomba. The key instrument that provides the core groove of a salsa song is the clave. It is often played with two wooden sticks that are hit together. Every instrument in a Salsa band is either playing with the clave (generally: congas, timbales, piano, tres guitar, bongos, claves (instrument), strings) or playing independent of the clave rhythm (generally: bass, maracas, güiro, cowbell). Melodic components of the music and dancers can choose to be in clave or out of clave at any point. However it is taboo to play or dance to the wrong type of clave rhythm (see salsa music). While dancers can mark the clave rhythm directly, it is more common to do so indirectly (with, for example, a shoulder movement). This allows the dancing itself to look very fluent as if the rest of the body is just moving untouched with the legs.

                                                    Latin American dancing - Pressing rhythm                                                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9lCzQ0PPAc&feature=related

 

The fastest gun in the west

Speed can save your life!

In many western film there are duels between cowboys, based on their speed with the gun; usually they place themselves facing one to the other at a given distance, and at a signal they shoot each other. Of course, fastness is essential to stay alive.

For example, this is a scene from "A fistful of dollars", a 1964 Italian-Spanish spaghetti western film directed by Sergio Leone; in this particular film, in addition to the duel, we can observe the rhythm of it: it is indeed a very slow scene, that changes suddenly to fast at the moment of shoot, this to create suspence and climax. Also the movements of the cowboys are very slow before the shoot.

"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!"

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

In Lewis Carroll's book Alice's Advetures in Wonderland, there are several passages that underline speed aspects:

"...Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’  [...] but when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on..."

(Chapter 1: down the rabbit-hole)





Also when dancing the "Caucus race" on the beach, the rhythm increases and it becomes faster:

"First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle, and then all the party were placed along the course, here and there. There was no ‘One, two, three, and away,’ but they began running when they liked, and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over. However, when they had been running half an hour or so, and were quite dry again, the Dodo suddenly called out ‘The race is over!’ and they all crowded round it, panting, and asking, ‘But who has won?’"

(Chapter 3: a Caucus-race and a long tale)

Speed metal

A sub-genre full of rhythm and speed

Speed metal is a sub-genre of heavy metal music that originated in the early 1980s from hardcore punk roots. It is usually described as extremely fast, abrasive and technically demanding music.

Motorhead is often credited as the first bad to invent/play speed metal.

Eric Peterson, guitarist of Testament, says about his band that "a lot of us did a lot of speed". 

 

Here it is an example of a speed metal song by the finnish power metal band of Stratovarius.

Larghissimo / Prestissimo

The speed of music

In music at the beginning of the song and when required, are placed a few words to indicate the speed and the trend at which it should have, especially in classical music.

Most of these words are Italian, because many of the most important composers of the 17th century were Italian, and this period was when tempo indications were first used extensively.

All of these markings are based on a few root words. By adding an -issimo ending the word is amplified, by adding an -ino ending the word is diminished, and by adding an -etto ending the word is endeared.

Nowadays we use BPM (Beats Per Minute), a unit typically used as a measure of tempo in music.

So, in accordance to past and present, we can found these notations on classical music sheet, that are the basic tempo markings:

• Larghissimo — very, very slow (20 bpm and below)
• Lento — very slow (40–60 bpm)
• Largo — very slow (40–60 bpm), like lento
• Larghetto — rather broadly (60–66 bpm)
• Grave — slow and solemn
• Adagio — slow and stately (literally, "at ease") (66–76 bpm)
• Adagietto — rather slow (70–80 bpm)
• Andante — at a walking pace (76–108 bpm)
• Andante Moderato — a bit faster than andante
• Andantino – slightly faster than andante
• Moderato — moderately (101-110 bpm)
• Allegretto — moderately fast (but less so than allegro)
• Allegro moderato — moderately quick (112–124 bpm)
• Allegro — fast, quickly and bright or "march tempo" (120–139 bpm)
• Vivace — lively and fast (˜140 bpm) (quicker than allegro)
• Vivacissimo — very fast and lively
• Allegrissimo — very fast
• Presto — very fast (168–200 bpm)
• Prestissimo — extremely fast (more than 200bpm)

http://www.musicacolta.eu/2009/03/07/agogica-le-indicazioni-del-tempo/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempo

In Andante and Variations by W.A. Mozart
we can see the tempo indication above the beginning of the notes
http://www.borgmusic.ca/transcriptions.html

Downshifting and simple life

Reset our lives in other register!

The phenomenon of downshifting, including in the broader concept of simple living, living in simplicity, is affecting even the beautiful country and that Italians like to translate the term "voluntary simplicity."
A practice not just recently. In the seventies, philosophers such as Jean Baudrillard (The consumer society, 1970) and André Gorz (Environment & Policy, 1975) theorized the need décroissance, decrease, based on awareness dell'insostenibilità, individually and globally, development rates too fast.

Today, as thirty years' ago, partisans of the slowness I think we should do the best possible and as quickly as possible.
But who are the supporters of going slow? Above all professionals with a good job, graduation, various specializations. They can choose. They have this privilege. They do this by opting for a lifestyle on a human scale, as "green."
These are people who have decided to give up marathons stressful jobs to have more free time to devote to family, their hobbies, friends. Men and women who, facing a global economic crisis, the depletion of the planet's wealth and all'inaridimento of their lives, they begin to reset their own lifestyle. To give an impression more "Eastern", leaner, less determined by impulse, sometimes manic consumption. And less "connected".

Downshifter 
The downshifter is the one who recovers his emotional, depriving them of chances for career success and money. And 'one who invests on the concept of happiness, waiting for individual choices become fashionable, able to transform our society and our rigid division of labor.

 
 http://www.voglioviverecosi.com/index.php?consigli-per-cambiare-vita-vivere-una-vita-migliore-e-pi%E3%B9-felice-_84/come-migliorare-la-qualit%E3-di-vita-downshifting-e-slow-living_231/

"Gioca Jouer" - Ok guys, now become faster!

Song citation

"Gioca Jouer" - Claudio Cecchetto

"Gioca Jouer! Dormire, salutare, autostop, starnuto, camminare, nuotare, sciare, spray, macho, clacson, campana, ok, baciare, capelli, saluti, saluti, Superman! One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Ok, ragazzi, ora più veloce, perché i comandi cambiano ogni due battute, se riuscirete a farlo, d'ora in poi potrete giocare anche solo con la musica, perché sarete dei veri campioni di ?Gioca Jouer!? Dormire, salutare, autostop, starnuto, camminare, nuotare, sciare, spray, macho,clacson, campana, ok, baciare, capelli, saluti, Superman! All right!"

Claudio Cecchetto - "Gioca Jouer" 

http://www.canzoni-mp3.net/c/cecchetto_claudio/canzoni/testo_giocajouer.htm