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PIZZ
(redirected from pizzicato)

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Her feet dart to the pizzicato rhythms and her arms undulate like ribbons.
He Poos Clouds whips pizzicato strings, snare drums, woodwinds, and his light but affecting tenor into deceptively complex yet frothy-sounding pop concoctions, all inspired by being the butt of many a mean-spirited teen-movie joke.
The air of unrelieved ennui adds Michelangelo Antonioni, pioneering theorist of temps mort, to the film's parade of art-house shout-outs, while the sound of plashing water, intermittently seeping into the sound track of dismal pizzicato strings and industrial hum, recalls Robert Bresson's maxim (from his Notes on the Cinematographer [1975]) that "image and sound must not support each other, but must work each in turn through a sort of relay.
 
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