From mbrennan@panix.com Thu Jul 28 12:36:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!panix!mbrennan From: mbrennan@panix.com (Mike Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 1994 12:36:39 GMT Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 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. 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. -- Mike Brennan *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) - NetBSD 1.0 From sdubois@kth.se Fri Jul 29 00:15:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!kth!sdubois From: sdubois@kth.se (Sun-mi Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul29.001539.6083@kth.se> Date: Fri, 29 Jul 1994 00:15:39 GMT References: <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com>, mbrennan@panix.com (Mike Brennan) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- Sun-mi Dubois -- Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "Marcus is not one man." From dsilva@tum.de Sat Jul 30 12:03:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!tum!dsilva From: dsilva@tum.de (Dmitri Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul30.120339.9736@tum.de> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 12:03:39 GMT References: <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com> <1994Jul29.001539.6083@kth.se> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1994Jul29.001539.6083@kth.se>, sdubois@kth.se (Sun-mi Dubois) writes: > I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Dmitri Silva -- Technische Universität München "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jkang@panix.com Sat Jul 30 17:55:39 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!panix!jkang From: jkang@panix.com (Jen Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul30.175539.4292@panix.com> Date: Sat, 30 Jul 1994 17:55:39 GMT References: <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Jul28.123639.6155@panix.com>, mbrennan@panix.com (Mike Brennan) 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. -- Jen Kang "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." NeXTstation Turbo Color / TOS 4.04