From msuzuki@berkeley.edu Wed Jan 10 22:25:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!berkeley!msuzuki From: msuzuki@berkeley.edu (Mike Suzuki) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu> Date: Wed, 10 Jan 1996 22:25:25 GMT Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu 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. 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. -- Mike Suzuki | msuzuki@berkeley.edu PGP Key fingerprint: FCDA 7A73 30E1 E6BD "Keep the channels open." From npopov@stanford.edu Fri Jan 12 10:22:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!stanford!npopov From: npopov@stanford.edu (Natalia Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan12.102225.4393@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 10:22:25 GMT References: <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu>, msuzuki@berkeley.edu (Mike Suzuki) writes: > 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. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Natalia Popov *PLONK* filter active for trolls. 486DX4/100 (FreeBSD 2.0.5) - NetBSD 1.0 From llindqvist@berkeley.edu Sat Jan 13 09:25:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!berkeley!llindqvist From: llindqvist@berkeley.edu (Liam Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan13.092525.8942@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 1996 09:25:25 GMT References: <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu> <1996Jan12.102225.4393@stanford.edu> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan12.102225.4393@stanford.edu>, npopov@stanford.edu (Natalia Popov) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- === Liam Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UC Berkeley Department of EECS "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From tdubois@cam.ac.uk Sun Jan 14 18:50:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cam!tdubois From: tdubois@cam.ac.uk (Tomas Dubois) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan14.185025.5441@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 18:50:25 GMT References: <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu>, msuzuki@berkeley.edu (Mike Suzuki) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Tomas Dubois Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. ------------------------------------------------------------ From kreyes@cmu.edu Sun Jan 14 21:39:25 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!kreyes From: kreyes@cmu.edu (Katrin Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan14.213925.6890@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21:39:25 GMT References: <1996Jan10.222525.3662@berkeley.edu> <1996Jan14.185025.5441@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan14.185025.5441@cam.ac.uk>, tdubois@cam.ac.uk (Tomas Dubois) writes: > Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Katrin Reyes "Row 14. No joke." Atari Falcon 030 / AmigaOS 3.1