From asmirnov@stanford.edu Tue Oct 24 06:02:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!asmirnov From: asmirnov@stanford.edu (Aiko Smirnov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 06:02:27 GMT Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? 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. -- Aiko Smirnov "Row 14. No joke." Acorn RiscPC 600 / Linux 1.2.13 From rlee@earthlink.net Tue Oct 24 18:59:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!rlee From: rlee@earthlink.net (Rodrigo Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct24.185927.7991@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 18:59:27 GMT References: <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu>, asmirnov@stanford.edu (Aiko Smirnov) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Rodrigo Lee "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Atari Falcon 030 / System 7.5.1 From mnakamura@stanford.edu Thu Oct 26 16:06:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!mnakamura From: mnakamura@stanford.edu (Mikhail Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct26.160627.8598@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 1995 16:06:27 GMT References: <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu>, asmirnov@stanford.edu (Aiko Smirnov) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- === Mikhail Nakamura === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From akim@berkeley.edu Fri Oct 27 22:30:27 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!akim From: akim@berkeley.edu (Anja Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Oct27.223027.8122@berkeley.edu> Date: Fri, 27 Oct 1995 22:30:27 GMT References: <1995Oct24.060227.5197@stanford.edu> <1995Oct24.185927.7991@earthlink.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct24.185927.7991@earthlink.net>, rlee@earthlink.net (Rodrigo Lee) writes: > Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Anja Kim -- UC Berkeley Department of EECS "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."