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According to Paper Magazine, design/advertising studio Partners & Spade will be hosting another session of their Avant Garde Preschool event on April 11. At 11.30 a.m., for a one-time “tuition” payment of $30, Sonic Youth frontman Thurston Moore will deliver a “Dissertation on White Noise” to kids aged 8-12. All proceeds go towards the arts program of New York school PS 126.
When school kids usually get lectured about noise, they are told how to keep it at a minimum. Avant-garde, indeed.
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Looks like Bangalore is going to have an extremely loud summer this year. Lamb of God. May 15. Tickets available here.
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The Washington Post reports:
WorldSpace, a bankrupt satellite radio company, is running low on funds that it is preparing to send its satellites to a premature death.
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The procedure would involve steering the WorldSpace satellites into a higher orbit, out of the way of others, said Tobias Nassif, vice president of satellite operations and engineering at Intelsat, which would assist WorldSpace. The satellites’ propellant would be dumped and their batteries would be disconnected, leaving them to a frozen death more than 22,000 miles above the Earth. If they were left unattended in the orbital band used by geostationary satellites, they could drift into others, creating debris that could cause more collisions in a cascade of damage, said John Pike, director of GlobalSecurity.org.
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WorldSpace had previously announced that it planned to stop broadcasting to India, one of its prime markets, on December 31, according to a statement on its website. The company said it would not be able to provide refunds to subscribers, although they could file claims with the bankruptcy court.
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After touring the country with his band Zero and making crowds swoon to ‘The New Album’, ace guitarist Warren Mendonsa is back in Mumbai for two more gigs! Yes, you read right! Warren’s playing on the 19th of this month at Thadomal ShahaniEngineering College (TSEC), Bandra and at Blue Frog on the 21st.
Get more details and RSVP to the TSEC event, Whiplash 2010, here. Oh and there’s a special treat of Warren conducting a guitar workshop there on the same day from 2:00pm to 4:30pm. Be sure to check that out!
See you there! :)
“I would attribute the burgeoning of independent music, actually, to Bollywood — the Hindi film industry. I believe they are actually responsible because today, musically, Bollywood is omnipresent — it’s everywhere, so people need an alternative to that.” — Shantanu Hudlikar, chief engineer at Yash Raj Studios, in an interview with Split Magazine.