From erodriguez@clari.net Sat Oct 08 04:20:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!clari!erodriguez From: erodriguez@clari.net (Emi Rodríguez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Oct08.042054.1351@clari.net> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 04:20:54 GMT Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. 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? -- === Emi Rodríguez === Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From hramirez@berkeley.edu Sat Oct 08 13:04:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!berkeley!hramirez From: hramirez@berkeley.edu (Hana Ramírez) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Oct08.130454.5061@berkeley.edu> Date: Sat, 08 Oct 1994 13:04:54 GMT References: <1994Oct08.042054.1351@clari.net> Organization: UC Berkeley Department of EECS NNTP-Posting-Host: berkeley.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 10 In article <1994Oct08.042054.1351@clari.net>, erodriguez@clari.net (Emi Rodríguez) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Hana Ramírez *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) - NetBSD 1.0 From noliveira@tum.de Mon Oct 10 12:23:54 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!tum!noliveira From: noliveira@tum.de (Nadia Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Oct10.122354.5828@tum.de> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 1994 12:23:54 GMT References: <1994Oct08.042054.1351@clari.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Oct08.042054.1351@clari.net>, erodriguez@clari.net (Emi Rodríguez) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > 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. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Nadia Oliveira Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail.