From framirez@illinois.edu Fri Mar 24 10:10:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!illinois!framirez From: framirez@illinois.edu (Fiona Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 10:10:31 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? 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. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Fiona Ramírez Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "Hold for relay." From sfournier@cam.ac.uk Fri Mar 24 15:08:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!sfournier From: sfournier@cam.ac.uk (Sven Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar24.150831.5658@cam.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 24 Mar 1995 15:08:31 GMT References: <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu>, framirez@illinois.edu (Fiona Ramírez) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. -- Sven Fournier Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From ikowalski@tum.de Sun Mar 26 13:13:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!ikowalski From: ikowalski@tum.de (Ines Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar26.131331.9831@tum.de> Date: Sun, 26 Mar 1995 13:13:31 GMT References: <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu> <1995Mar24.150831.5658@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1995Mar24.150831.5658@cam.ac.uk>, sfournier@cam.ac.uk (Sven Fournier) writes: > I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. My 14.4k connection dropped twice trying to fetch this thread. Keep articles concise! -- Ines Kowalski *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Amiga 3000T - NetBSD 1.0 From ikarlsson@tum.de Tue Mar 28 06:11:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!ikarlsson From: ikarlsson@tum.de (Ines Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar28.061131.4047@tum.de> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 06:11:31 GMT References: <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu> <1995Mar24.150831.5658@cam.ac.uk> <1995Mar26.131331.9831@tum.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar26.131331.9831@tum.de>, ikowalski@tum.de (Ines Kowalski) 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. Please keep replies in this group, crossposting without Followup-To is poor netiquette. -- Ines Karlsson Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From mmacdonald@stanford.edu Tue Mar 28 21:52:31 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!stanford!mmacdonald From: mmacdonald@stanford.edu (Marta MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Mar28.215231.8946@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 1995 21:52:31 GMT References: <1995Mar24.101031.5729@illinois.edu> <1995Mar24.150831.5658@cam.ac.uk> <1995Mar26.131331.9831@tum.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Mar26.131331.9831@tum.de>, ikowalski@tum.de (Ines Kowalski) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Marta MacDonald Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.