The singer of our favorite Burt Bacharach tribute band gave a “Dissertation on White Noise” for kids between ages 8 and 12 at Partners & Spade’s so-called Avant Garde Preschool last weekend, and though we’re not sure what Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore covered in the lecture, we do have a glimpse of his noise jam session with a few pupils.
Watch as Thurston and Bill Nace (Northampton Wools) guide children on the art of twiddling effects pedal knobs while hitting a distorted electric guitar with a stick and messing with the whammy bar below: