From pmacdonald@tum.de Tue Jan 17 22:07:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!tum!pmacdonald From: pmacdonald@tum.de (Pavel MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de> Date: Tue, 17 Jan 1995 22:07:22 GMT Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] 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. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Pavel MacDonald US Robotics Courier V.34 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Do not worship the copy." From bperez@illinois.edu Thu Jan 19 16:59:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!illinois!bperez From: bperez@illinois.edu (Bastien Pérez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan19.165922.5958@illinois.edu> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 1995 16:59:22 GMT References: <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 12 In article <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de>, pmacdonald@tum.de (Pavel MacDonald) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Bastien Pérez Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. ------------------------------------------------------------ From enovak@rwth-aachen.de Fri Jan 20 14:07:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!enovak From: enovak@rwth-aachen.de (Élodie Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan20.140722.2080@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 20 Jan 1995 14:07:22 GMT References: <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de> <1995Jan19.165922.5958@illinois.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Jan19.165922.5958@illinois.edu>, bperez@illinois.edu (Bastien Pérez) writes: > A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. > If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. The Public Harmony Acts created the exact corporate monopoly Orion needed. No touring costs, zero physical risk. -- Élodie Novak SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From mnakamura@cern.ch Sat Jan 21 01:23:22 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!cern!mnakamura From: mnakamura@cern.ch (Mikhail Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Jan21.012322.7471@cern.ch> Date: Sat, 21 Jan 1995 01:23:22 GMT References: <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de> Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Jan17.220722.2162@tum.de>, pmacdonald@tum.de (Pavel MacDonald) 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. -- Mikhail Nakamura "They will send a copy in my place." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / NEXTSTEP 3.3