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A mixture of traditional Japanese folk sound merged with Sun Ra-worthy distortion and drone, stacatto picking intertwined with warbling feedback, none of the myriad melodies too loud or dominant… Then Batoh initiated some poly-rhythmic clapping patterns, the horn player turned and beat a big-ass gong, the drummer came down hard on his full set, and 15 minutes in, this has just become a rock show.
Buzzine » Ghost 2009
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Danah Boyd is my favourite Web 2.0 Sociologist (I file Mark Dery under Cyberpunk) Her apex timed stacatto style questions followed by the KO right hook insights are a nice counterpoint to Google this, Apple that (i admit im part of following the herd!!)
To Remix is to Create is To Remix. Nothing New. Ben Barren 2005
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Office sounds, such as the stacatto of typing, modulate the dancer rhythms.
Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007
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I begin with first impressions, about how much time has passed and how everything is both cold and hot, and soon my stacatto notes create a jostling rhythm.
bottled places: dying in greenhills Dean Francis Alfar 2005
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The dogs started a vicious sneezing battle at the house and after a symphony of stacatto snorts and feral skin flapping the whole living room glistened with a slimy veneer of canine mucous and saliva.
Archive 2007-12-01 Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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Danah Boyd is my favourite Web 2.0 Sociologist (I file Mark Dery under Cyberpunk) Her apex timed stacatto style questions followed by the KO right hook insights are a nice counterpoint to Google this, Apple that (i admit im part of following the herd!!)
Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005
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The dogs started a vicious sneezing battle at the house and after a symphony of stacatto snorts and feral skin flapping the whole living room glistened with a slimy veneer of canine mucous and saliva.
The Gift Of The Canine Matthew Sanborn Smith 2007
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I'm not suggesting that you pare down to James Ellroy stacatto but I do hold fast to the idea of "less is more".
Crapometer #10!! Miss Snark 2005
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CHERKASKY: You think about things, but don't think about the stacatto attacks that occurred here, you know, one, two, three, you try to take the punch.
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Behind the pounding bass, the sharper stacatto rattle of a snare drum coming from next door's back bedroom.
Civvies La Plante, Lynda 1992
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