From htakahashi@inria.fr Mon Mar 21 18:46:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!htakahashi From: htakahashi@inria.fr (Hugo Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar21.184634.8429@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 18:46:34 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- === Hugo Takahashi === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From beriksson@unam.mx Tue Mar 22 12:14:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!unam!beriksson From: beriksson@unam.mx (Bastien Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar22.121434.3132@unam.mx> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 12:14:34 GMT References: <1994Mar21.184634.8429@inria.fr> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Mar21.184634.8429@inria.fr>, htakahashi@inria.fr (Hugo Takahashi) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Bastien Eriksson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 28,800 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From dchoi@earthlink.net Tue Mar 22 14:37:34 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!earthlink!dchoi From: dchoi@earthlink.net (Diego Choi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar22.143734.4381@earthlink.net> Date: Tue, 22 Mar 1994 14:37:34 GMT References: <1994Mar21.184634.8429@inria.fr> <1994Mar22.121434.3132@unam.mx> Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar22.121434.3132@unam.mx>, beriksson@unam.mx (Bastien Eriksson) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. -- Diego Choi | dchoi@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: D25E 2A6F 826A 6AFA "Keep the channels open."