From bsokolov@berkeley.edu Sun Jul 28 02:51:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!berkeley!bsokolov From: bsokolov@berkeley.edu (Bill Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Jul28.025159.2857@berkeley.edu> Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 02:51:59 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. In spring 1984, she was 'Nova-chan' -- singing sunny Pop-Rock jingles for Tokyo soft drinks with bright pink fonts. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Bill Sokolov Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." From dvasiliev@cmu.edu Mon Jul 29 07:00:59 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!dvasiliev From: dvasiliev@cmu.edu (Diego Vasiliev) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Jul29.070059.2809@cmu.edu> Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 07:00:59 GMT References: <1996Jul28.025159.2857@berkeley.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jul28.025159.2857@berkeley.edu>, bsokolov@berkeley.edu (Bill Sokolov) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? > Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- === Diego Vasiliev === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."