From meriksson@earthlink.net Tue Apr 19 11:48:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!earthlink!meriksson From: meriksson@earthlink.net (Matthias Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Apr19.114810.6868@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 11:48:10 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- === Matthias Eriksson === Dept of Electrical Engineering, EarthLink Network "Row 14. No joke." From dsato@inria.fr Tue Apr 19 17:26:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!dsato From: dsato@inria.fr (Diego Sato) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Apr19.172610.7540@inria.fr> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 1994 17:26:10 GMT References: <1994Apr19.114810.6868@earthlink.net> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr19.114810.6868@earthlink.net>, meriksson@earthlink.net (Matthias Eriksson) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Diego Sato "A soul is not exclusive to biology." Atari Falcon 030 / AmigaOS 3.1 From bwatanabe@mit.edu Wed Apr 20 09:45:10 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!bwatanabe From: bwatanabe@mit.edu (Bruno Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Apr20.094510.3665@mit.edu> Date: Wed, 20 Apr 1994 09:45:10 GMT References: <1994Apr19.114810.6868@earthlink.net> <1994Apr19.172610.7540@inria.fr> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1994Apr19.172610.7540@inria.fr>, dsato@inria.fr (Diego Sato) writes: > Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- === Bruno Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology "5 sigma is a discovery. 7 is a question."