From eschneider@demon.co.uk Tue Oct 17 07:23:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!demon!eschneider From: eschneider@demon.co.uk (Elaine Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 07:23:01 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk 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. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Elaine Schneider SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 14,400 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From blarsson@kth.se Thu Oct 19 05:23:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!kth!blarsson From: blarsson@kth.se (Bruno Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct19.052301.1485@kth.se> Date: Thu, 19 Oct 1995 05:23:01 GMT References: <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk>, eschneider@demon.co.uk (Elaine Schneider) 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. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- === Bruno Larsson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jmuller@ox.ac.uk Fri Oct 20 16:07:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!jmuller From: jmuller@ox.ac.uk (Julien Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct20.160701.6348@ox.ac.uk> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 16:07:01 GMT References: <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk>, eschneider@demon.co.uk (Elaine Schneider) 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. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- Julien Müller SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question." From blee@ox.ac.uk Sat Oct 21 18:35:01 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!blee From: blee@ox.ac.uk (Bruno Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct21.183501.6005@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 21 Oct 1995 18:35:01 GMT References: <1995Oct17.072301.9690@demon.co.uk> <1995Oct19.052301.1485@kth.se> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct19.052301.1485@kth.se>, blarsson@kth.se (Bruno Larsson) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Bruno Lee | blee@ox.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 4F62 4C1A 66CB FA0C "Keep the channels open."