From slarsson@kiae.su Tue Dec 20 06:05:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!kiae!slarsson From: slarsson@kiae.su (Sergei Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Dec20.060539.2740@kiae.su> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 06:05:39 GMT Organization: Kurchatov Institute of Atomic Energy, Moscow NNTP-Posting-Host: kiae.su X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Sergei Larsson Hayes Optima 288 @ 19,200 bps "Do not worship the copy." From fokonkwo@cern.ch Tue Dec 20 19:21:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cern!fokonkwo From: fokonkwo@cern.ch (Freya Okonkwo) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Dec20.192139.9073@cern.ch> Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1994 19:21:39 GMT References: <1994Dec20.060539.2740@kiae.su> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec20.060539.2740@kiae.su>, slarsson@kiae.su (Sergei Larsson) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Freya Okonkwo "They will send a copy in my place." Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) / TOS 4.04