From jmartinez@mindspring.com Wed Jul 20 22:06:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!mindspring!jmartinez From: jmartinez@mindspring.com (Ji-woo Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com> Date: Wed, 20 Jul 1994 22:06:50 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- === Ji-woo Martínez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, MindSpring Enterprises "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From ksato@utexas.edu Thu Jul 21 15:43:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!ksato From: ksato@utexas.edu (Kenji Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul21.154350.2248@utexas.edu> Date: Thu, 21 Jul 1994 15:43:50 GMT References: <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com>, jmartinez@mindspring.com (Ji-woo Martínez) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Kenji Sato *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From hlaurent@rwth-aachen.de Fri Jul 22 03:38:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!rwth-aachen!hlaurent From: hlaurent@rwth-aachen.de (Hugo Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul22.033850.8519@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 1994 03:38:50 GMT References: <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com>, jmartinez@mindspring.com (Ji-woo Martínez) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Hugo Laurent "They will send a copy in my place." NeXTstation Turbo Color / SunOS 4.1.4 From bsilva@mindspring.com Sat Jul 23 17:31:50 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!bsilva From: bsilva@mindspring.com (Bastien Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul23.173150.9760@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 1994 17:31:50 GMT References: <1994Jul20.220650.9884@mindspring.com> <1994Jul21.154350.2248@utexas.edu> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul21.154350.2248@utexas.edu>, ksato@utexas.edu (Kenji Sato) writes: > Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Bastien Silva "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / AmigaOS 3.1