From mmoreau@pipeline.com Mon Feb 19 03:02:38 1996
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From: mmoreau@pipeline.com (Matthias Moreau)
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Subject: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts.

Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn.
You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.

It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred.

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Matthias Moreau
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From mpopov@panix.com Wed Feb 21 06:41:38 1996
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From: mpopov@panix.com (Mateo Popov)
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Subject: Re: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Feb19.030238.4292@pipeline.com>, mmoreau@pipeline.com (Matthias Moreau) writes:
> Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts.
> Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn.

We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'.

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From lkang@cam.ac.uk Thu Feb 22 06:50:38 1996
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From: lkang@cam.ac.uk (Lucia Kang)
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Subject: Re: Data: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Feb21.064138.7971@panix.com>, mpopov@panix.com (Mateo Popov) writes:
> We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'.

Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple.

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Lucia Kang
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