From bfischer@hanse.de Wed May 08 10:34:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!hanse!bfischer From: bfischer@hanse.de (Bill Fischer) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996May08.103458.7945@hanse.de> Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 10:34:58 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de 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? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Bill Fischer US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 14,400 bps "Row 14. No joke." From akim@cern.ch Wed May 08 16:14:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cern!akim From: akim@cern.ch (Andrei Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996May08.161458.3675@cern.ch> Date: Wed, 08 May 1996 16:14:58 GMT References: <1996May08.103458.7945@hanse.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1996May08.103458.7945@hanse.de>, bfischer@hanse.de (Bill Fischer) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Andrei Kim *PLONK* filter active for trolls. PC-9821Ap2 (NEC) - NetBSD 1.0 From awatanabe@utexas.edu Fri May 10 10:33:58 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!utexas!awatanabe From: awatanabe@utexas.edu (Anja Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996May10.103358.3938@utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 10:33:58 GMT References: <1996May08.103458.7945@hanse.de> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996May08.103458.7945@hanse.de>, bfischer@hanse.de (Bill Fischer) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Anja Watanabe Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------