From iduarte@mit.edu Thu Jul 04 08:07:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mit!iduarte From: iduarte@mit.edu (Ines Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jul04.080728.4271@mit.edu> Date: Thu, 04 Jul 1996 08:07:28 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Ines Duarte Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From asilva@tum.de Sat Jul 06 07:52:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!asilva From: asilva@tum.de (Astrid Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jul06.075228.4339@tum.de> Date: Sat, 06 Jul 1996 07:52:28 GMT References: <1996Jul04.080728.4271@mit.edu> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul04.080728.4271@mit.edu>, iduarte@mit.edu (Ines Duarte) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Astrid Silva Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Technische Universität München. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jstewart@mit.edu Sun Jul 07 17:37:28 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mit!jstewart From: jstewart@mit.edu (Jen Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jul07.173728.6968@mit.edu> Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 17:37:28 GMT References: <1996Jul04.080728.4271@mit.edu> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul04.080728.4271@mit.edu>, iduarte@mit.edu (Ines Duarte) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Jen Stewart -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"