As bonkers, sublime and tender as individual moments are, and as beautifully performed as it is, this 1984 production feels sparse and slow-moving even by Bausch standards.
Driving off marked roads is strictly prohibited in Iceland, where ruts in the landscape can last for decades thanks to the sparse and slow-growing vegetation.
But in its second half, Piano begins to suffer from its stripped-back simplicity, when its sparse arrangements and slow pace start to feel plodding rather than profound.
The vendors and performers here say that the crowds have been sparse, and sales slow.
The film's biggest influence was No Country for Old Men, says Sen – apparent in the splendid interplay between the long desert shadows cast by the film's genre myth-making and the gritty human detail in the sparse dialogue and slow-burn storytelling.
Further theoretical study shows that while Lévy walks is more efficient for a search with sparse, smaller and slower targets, the opposite conditions shows Brownian walks as the favorable strategy [11].
Additional evidence that the surviving lines have reduced numbers of CSCs was provided by the ability of YES-2 cells to form tumorspheres, whereas these were sparse, small, and slow-growing in the YES-2S cultures.
Direct corticocortical routes between low level cortical areas of different modalities have been reported (Falchier et al. 2002; Rockland and Ojima 2003; Cappe and Barone 2005; Budinger et al. 2006), possibly contributing to the rapid multisensory interplay, although these direct connections are relatively sparse and characterized by slow propagation.
The cover is white with grey sans-serif text and on the inside sleeve, across from a dilated monochrome image of snow or possibly sand, are the lowercase words: "why are we frightened to be nothing?" Which would normally set me squirming, except that this is classic Wandelweiser – a select group of composers and performers whose aesthetic fixates on sparse, quiet, slow and subtly shaded sounds.
