From ldubois@inria.fr Fri Mar 10 04:09:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!ldubois From: ldubois@inria.fr (Lisa Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Mar10.040954.3104@inria.fr> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 1995 04:09:54 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved. -- Lisa Dubois -- INRIA Rocquencourt "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives." From bhughes@netcom.com Sun Mar 12 00:50:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!netcom!bhughes From: bhughes@netcom.com (Bill Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Mar12.005054.1850@netcom.com> Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 00:50:54 GMT References: <1995Mar10.040954.3104@inria.fr> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar10.040954.3104@inria.fr>, ldubois@inria.fr (Lisa Dubois) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. > The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. -- Bill Hughes *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0 From nweber@titech.ac.jp Mon Mar 13 14:06:54 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!titech!nweber From: nweber@titech.ac.jp (Nadia Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Mar13.140654.1213@titech.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 1995 14:06:54 GMT References: <1995Mar10.040954.3104@inria.fr> Organization: Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre NNTP-Posting-Host: titech.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Mar10.040954.3104@inria.fr>, ldubois@inria.fr (Lisa Dubois) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. > The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. -- Nadia Weber Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Tokyo Institute of Technology Computer Centre. ------------------------------------------------------------