percussive

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The percussive score by Joseph Shirley and Moses Sumney underlines this and gives the whole film an eerie, curious atmosphere, lending to a sense of unreality.

From Los Angeles Times • May 15, 2026

Its closing track, a harmonically suspended instrumental titled “The Brazilian,” flirted with the avant-garde by repeating the same anti-melody, anchored on a jungle of percussive clangs and hyperkinetic Simmons drum rolls.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 10, 2026

On his own website, Zayn describes konnakol as "the act of creating percussive sounds with one's voice".

From BBC • Feb. 6, 2026

He arrived in New York City in the early 1960s, and by the age of 20 drew attention to his plays, a riot of percussive energy.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

But it is important to distinguish between the first pair and the second: one deals with space and place; the other with percussive force.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton