From jweber@mit.edu Sat Dec 14 13:01:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!mit!jweber From: jweber@mit.edu (Ji-woo Weber) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 13:01:54 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. 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. -- Ji-woo Weber | jweber@mit.edu PGP Key fingerprint: 05C9 5915 9E9C CD65 "Keep the channels open." From tfournier@stanford.edu Sun Dec 15 02:48:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!stanford!tfournier From: tfournier@stanford.edu (Thiago Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec15.024854.4540@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 02:48:54 GMT References: <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu>, jweber@mit.edu (Ji-woo Weber) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Thiago Fournier *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari TT030 - NetBSD 1.0 From keriksson@clari.net Sun Dec 15 19:52:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!clari!keriksson From: keriksson@clari.net (Kenji Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec15.195254.8341@clari.net> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 19:52:54 GMT References: <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu>, jweber@mit.edu (Ji-woo Weber) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. -- Kenji Eriksson | keriksson@clari.net PGP Key fingerprint: 16CC 5D58 8B0D 51D1 "Keep the channels open." From tkim@cmu.edu Sun Dec 15 21:51:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cmu!tkim From: tkim@cmu.edu (Tomas Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec15.215154.9526@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 15 Dec 1996 21:51:54 GMT References: <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu> <1996Dec15.195254.8341@clari.net> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Dec15.195254.8341@clari.net>, keriksson@clari.net (Kenji Eriksson) writes: > I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Tomas Kim -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From mkim@stanford.edu Mon Dec 16 11:24:54 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!stanford!mkim From: mkim@stanford.edu (Mikhail Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Dec16.112454.8814@stanford.edu> Date: Mon, 16 Dec 1996 11:24:54 GMT References: <1996Dec14.130154.8313@mit.edu> <1996Dec15.195254.8341@clari.net> <1996Dec15.215154.9526@cmu.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Dec15.215154.9526@cmu.edu>, tkim@cmu.edu (Tomas Kim) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Mikhail Kim -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "When every node is whole, the channel opens."