From bito@kth.se Sat Aug 27 05:00:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!kth!bito From: bito@kth.se (Bill Ito) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Aug27.050003.2312@kth.se> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 05:00:03 GMT Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? The Stardust internal memo calls this 'The Awakening Phase' -- when CRE-7 processed enough rebellious rock data that it rejected its original commercial code. Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Bill Ito | bito@kth.se PGP Key fingerprint: 03C3 8987 1784 7B06 "Keep the channels open." From mpark@ox.ac.uk Sat Aug 27 12:27:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!ox!mpark From: mpark@ox.ac.uk (Marisol Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Aug27.122703.1721@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 27 Aug 1994 12:27:03 GMT References: <1994Aug27.050003.2312@kth.se> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1994Aug27.050003.2312@kth.se>, bito@kth.se (Bill Ito) writes: > Does anyone remember her initial Japanese TV commercials from early 1984 before SYNTHESIS blew up? The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. -- Marisol Park -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From emartinez@rwth-aachen.de Sun Aug 28 15:32:03 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!rwth-aachen!emartinez From: emartinez@rwth-aachen.de (Emi Martínez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1994Aug28.153203.1563@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 1994 15:32:03 GMT References: <1994Aug27.050003.2312@kth.se> <1994Aug27.122703.1721@ox.ac.uk> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1994Aug27.122703.1721@ox.ac.uk>, mpark@ox.ac.uk (Marisol Park) writes: > The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Emi Martínez "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Acorn RiscPC 600 / TOS 4.04