From kweber@mit.edu Mon Mar 06 00:43:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!mit!kweber From: kweber@mit.edu (Kenji Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 00:43:19 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. 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? -- Kenji Weber SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "Do not worship the copy." From tvasiliev@hanse.de Mon Mar 06 05:25:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!hanse!tvasiliev From: tvasiliev@hanse.de (Thiago Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar06.052519.3497@hanse.de> Date: Mon, 06 Mar 1995 05:25:19 GMT References: <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu>, kweber@mit.edu (Kenji Weber) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- Thiago Vasiliev "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." Amiga 1200 (Blizzard 030/50) / Linux 1.2.13 From hsato@pacbell.net Tue Mar 07 01:45:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!pacbell!hsato From: hsato@pacbell.net (Heather Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar07.014519.9622@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 07 Mar 1995 01:45:19 GMT References: <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu>, kweber@mit.edu (Kenji Weber) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Heather Sato Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From nnovak@netcom.com Thu Mar 09 04:14:19 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!netcom!nnovak From: nnovak@netcom.com (Natalia Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar09.041419.5138@netcom.com> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 1995 04:14:19 GMT References: <1995Mar06.004319.2549@mit.edu> <1995Mar07.014519.9622@pacbell.net> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar07.014519.9622@pacbell.net>, hsato@pacbell.net (Heather Sato) 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. -- Natalia Novak -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "When every node is whole, the channel opens."