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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

  • 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

  • Office sounds, such as the stacatto of typing, modulate the dancer rhythms.

    Kickboxing Geishas Veronica Chambers 2007

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.

    CNN Transcript Sep 13, 2001 2001

  • 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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