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Dot Matrix Dancing

NPR
Published October 1, 2000 at 11:00 PM CDT

Commentator Daniel Ferri, a sixth-grade teacher in Chicago says his students discovered a kind of Brazilian dance-rhythm in the sound of the dot-matrix printer. He calls it the techno-sambo.

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