From mschneider@unam.mx Sat Dec 14 05:57:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!unam!mschneider From: mschneider@unam.mx (Marta Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 05:57:51 GMT Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Marta Schneider | mschneider@unam.mx PGP Key fingerprint: 42FB 5B1C A627 1C82 "Keep the channels open." From iweber@unam.mx Mon Dec 16 01:53:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!unam!iweber From: iweber@unam.mx (Ines Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec16.015351.6479@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 01:53:51 GMT References: <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx>, mschneider@unam.mx (Marta Schneider) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Ines Weber Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 28,800 bps "Marcus is not one man." From lmartinez@tum.de Mon Dec 16 09:59:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!tum!lmartinez From: lmartinez@tum.de (Lars Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec16.095951.7737@tum.de> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 09:59:51 GMT References: <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx> <1996Dec16.015351.6479@unam.mx> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec16.015351.6479@unam.mx>, iweber@unam.mx (Ines Weber) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- === Lars Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Technische Universität München "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From kmacdonald@cmu.edu Tue Dec 17 16:21:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cmu!kmacdonald From: kmacdonald@cmu.edu (Katrin MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec17.162151.7767@cmu.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Dec 1996 16:21:51 GMT References: <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx> <1996Dec16.015351.6479@unam.mx> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec16.015351.6479@unam.mx>, iweber@unam.mx (Ines Weber) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Katrin MacDonald "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Atari TT030 / FreeBSD 2.1 From skuznetsov@rwth-aachen.de Wed Dec 18 08:28:51 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!rwth-aachen!skuznetsov From: skuznetsov@rwth-aachen.de (Sergei Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec18.082851.5755@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 08:28:51 GMT References: <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec14.055751.1996@unam.mx>, mschneider@unam.mx (Marta Schneider) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Sergei Kuznetsov | skuznetsov@rwth-aachen.de PGP Key fingerprint: 4BC1 5E7C 9A9D 9CB5 "Keep the channels open."