Avant garde composer George Antheil and Golden Age actress Hedy Lamarr were granted US Patent 2, 292, 387 on August 11, 1942 for their Secret Communication System that details an early version of Frequency Hopping.

Avant garde composer George Antheil, a son of German immigrants and neighbor of Lamarr, had experimented with automated control of musical instruments, including his music for Ballet Mécanique, originally written for Fernand Léger's 1924 abstract film.

* The Avant Garde Project, free downloads of out of print avant garde music

Other artists of the Tagore family, such as Rabindranath Tagore ( 1861 – 1941 ) and Gaganendranath Tagore ( 1867 – 1938 ) as well as new artists of the early 20th c such as Amrita Sher-Gil ( 1913 – 1941 ) were responsible for introducing Avant garde western styles into Indian Art.

In the same year, he organized what he called a Fame Exchange during the New York Avant Garde Festival, where he hired a group of admirers to follow him around instead of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

The car was to be developed at Michelin facilities at Clermont-Ferrand and at Citroën in Paris in strict secrecy, by the design team who had created the Traction Avant.

The event, arranged by Charlotte Moorman as part of her 2nd Annual New York Avant Garde Festival, would cement animosities between Maciunas and her, with Maciunas frequently demanding that artists associated with Fluxus have nothing to do with the annual festival, and would often expel artists who ignored his demands.

The recording was not released until 1998, when American Splendor writer Harvey Pekar — who had obtained a copy of the demo — played the music for composer John Zorn, who released the music on his Avant Records as Paniots Nine.

" Warren, who subsequently became a published poet, met Simeon and Taylor at the Third Annual Avant Garde Arts Festival in 1968 in New York City, organized by Charlotte Moorman, who was famous as the " topless cellist ".

The label languished in 1982, and Avant nearly lost his home in 1983 before discovering Dina R. Andrews, a young music executive who had worked for Dick Griffey's Solar Records.

Andrews, who had just begun managing the duo Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis ( of the Time ), met with Avant and, through her relationship with him, introduced Jam & Lewis, who produced their first recordings for Avant.

Near to the tower, on the seafront, is the unique landmark house designed in the Avant Garde style by Michael Scott, eminent 20th century Architect who made it his residence.

They soon attracted the attention of John Zorn, who signed the band to his Avant Records label, which released their first LP.

" Jackson met with PolyGram chairman Alain Levy and several other executives, who issued a public apology for Kronfield's statement, and replaced Kronfield as president with Motown Records ' chairman Clarence Avant.

( who featured her and Jay-Z on his Rene & Angela-sampled " I Love You More " for the song " I Love the Dough "), Foxy Brown ( who sampled her " I'll Be Good " for her 1997 top ten hit, " I'll Be ", Rapper Sylk-E. Fyne's 1998 hit " Romeo and Juliet " that samples Rene and Angela's " You Don't Have to Cry ", and last but not least singer Avant re-recorded the Rene & Angela ballad, " My First Love ", with singer Keke Wyatt in 2000.

Avant Garde ( later renamed Zoom ) was a progressive metal band most notable as an early musical project of Rivers Cuomo, who would later gain worldwide fame as the frontman of the alternative rock band Weezer.

In 1915, George White married Ellen Avant Macdonald of North Carolina, who survived him.

The cover was produced by Swedish production team Bloodshy & Avant, who produced her single " Toxic " from her fourth studio album, In the Zone ( 2003 ).

Bloodshy & Avant have also gained fame by remixes.

The Traction Avant, French for " front wheel drive ", was designed by André Lefèbvre and Flaminio Bertoni in late 1933 / early 1934.

The development costs of the Traction Avant, combined with the redevelopment of its factory, were very high and Citroën declared bankruptcy in late 1934.

Most small passenger vehicles switched to monocoque construction in the 1960s, but the trend had started in the 1930s with cars like the Opel Olympia, and Citroen Traction Avant leaving just trucks, some bus manufacturers and large cars using conventional frames.

Front-wheel drive made the car easy and safe to drive and Citroën had developed expertise with it due to the pioneering Traction Avant, which was the first mass produced steel monocoque front-wheel-drive car in the world.

Deborah Avant discusses the controversy in her book The Market for Force: The Consequences of Privatizing Security.

In December 2004, after a long period of silence, Farmer held a press conference announcing her new album, Avant que l ' ombre ..., and the single " Fuck Them All " as well as a special 13-night concert engagement at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy in January 2006.

In July 2006, she won the first Avant Garden Literary Price with her short-story Sirbone.

The pair asked Andrews to manage them, and through her relationships Andrews first introduced Jam and Lewis to Music Executive Clarance Avant.

Her star-making performance on the show led to a major-label recording contract with Sony Music and the eventual release of her debut single, " Avant de Partir ," in 2000.

The lead single from her forthcoming full-length album debut, " Aime-Moi " ( 2002 ), " Avant de Partir " was a Top Five hit on the French singles chart.

Saturnyne and her Avant Guard attempted to give Earth-238 " the Push ", an evolutionary boost when Jaspers unleashed the Jaspers ' Warp, a wave of unreality that affects everything in the continuity.

sampled Rene & Angela's " Your Smile " for their rap song " Backstabbers "; Female Rapper Sylk-E. Fyne's 1998 Platinum hit " Romeo and Juliet " sampled Rene & Angela's R & B Top 5 hit " You Don't Have to Cry "; Sylk-E. Fyne also sampled their Top 5 hit " Your Smile " for her song " Your Style "; additionally, Adina Howard re-recorded their " You Don't Have to Cry " as a duet ; and Avant re-recorded the Rene & Angela ballad, " My First Love ", with singer Keke Wyatt in 2000.

Bloodshy and Avant scored their first success working with American singer / songwriter Christina Milian for her debut album.

Authorities identified the victims as Pinelake residents Tessie Garner, 75 ; Lillian Dunn, 89 ; Jesse Musser, 88 ; Bessie Hedrick, 78 ; John Goldston, 78 ; Margaret Johnson, 89 ; Louise DeKler, 98 ; and nurse Jerry Avant, 39.

" This is not included on the CD Last Live at CBGB, released more than a decade later on John Zorn's Avant label.

by John Avant of First West Church

* John Zorn-Naked City: Grand Guignol ( Avant, 1992 )

Their 1993 album Allegorical Misunderstanding was released on John Zorn's record label, Avant, although most of their albums have come out on independent label P. S. F.

*" John Coltrane, Avant Garde Jazz, and the Evolution of " My Favorite Things " — A thesis paper with musical analysis

During this period he also wrote the book Avant et après ( before and after ), a fragmented collection of observations about life in Polynesia, memories from his life and comments on literature and paintings.

This was in response to the direct competition by the Renault 4, that had used so many stolen design ideas from the 2CV and Traction Avant that Citroën contemplated legal action at the time of its launch.

RENFE deployed them for the new Avant services along the Madrid-Seville high-speed line from 29 December 2004.

Some examples are Window Maker ( which emulates the look and feel of the NeXTstep GUI ), Docky, and Avant Window Navigator, KXDocker ( amongst others ) for KDE and various other gdesklet / adesklets docks, AfterStep's Wharf ( a derivation from the NeXTstep UI ), iTask NG ( a module used with some Enlightenment-based Linux distributions such as gOS ) and Blackbox's Slit.

Avant Browser is a freeware web browser from a Chinese programmer named Anderson Che, which unites the Trident layout engine built into Windows ( see Internet Explorer shell ) with an interface intended to be more feature-rich, flexible and ergonomic than Microsoft's Internet Explorer ( IE ).

Another innovation is that Avant may now be run from a USB flash drive ( or other portable storage device such as an MP3 player ) without needing to be installed.

* Subotnick's The Double Life of Amphibians at the Internet Archive Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions ( originally from the Avant Garde Project ) available for free download.

The Citroën Traction Avant () is an automobile which was produced by the French manufacturer Citroën from 1934 to 1957.

The novel design made the car very low-slung relative to its contemporaries – the Traction Avant always possessed a unique look, which went from appearing rakish in 1934 to familiar and somewhat old fashioned by 1955.

* Ezra Sims at the Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from a high-quality LP transcription available for free download.

The millionth Audi 100 was a hatchback Audi 100 Avant assembled not at the company's main Ingolstadt plant but to the west, at the Neckarsulm factory which, since the demise of the mainstream volume models from the NSU range, had been concentrating on providing additional production capacity for the fast selling Audi range.

It shared its platform with the Volkswagen Passat from 1973 to 1986 and was available as a saloon car / sedan, and an Avant ( Audi's name for an estate car / station wagon ).

The Renault 4 incorporated many ideas copied from the Citroën Traction Avant, but on a smaller scale.

* " Q. I ", a song by Mylène Farmer from Avant que l ' ombre ...

* Dieter Schnebel at the Avant Garde Project has FLAC files made from high-quality LP transcriptions available for free download.

Avant is now signed to Verve Forecast and released his sixth studio album The Letter ( formerly titled " Wake Up ") on December 21, 2010, featuring production from the likes of The Pentagon ; Mike City ; Marshall Leathers ; and Kajun.

* The Essential Klezmer: A Music Lover's Guide to Jewish Roots and Soul Music, from the Old World to the Jazz Age to the Downtown Avant Garde ( 2000 )

The Citroën TUB ( from the French Traction Utilitaire Basse or Traction Utilitaire type B ) was a light van derived from the Traction Avant passenger car.

Sinclair worked as a jazz writer for Down Beat magazine from 1964 to 1965, being an outspoken advocate for the newly emerging Free Jazz Avant Garde movement.