From elaurent@pacbell.net Thu Dec 05 07:55:57 1996
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From: elaurent@pacbell.net (Emi Laurent)
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Subject: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.
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.

-- 
=== Emi Laurent ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, Pacific Bell Internet Services
"Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do."

From tlindqvist@clari.net Fri Dec 06 03:18:57 1996
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From: tlindqvist@clari.net (Tyler Lindqvist)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Dec05.075557.7541@pacbell.net>, elaurent@pacbell.net (Emi Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?
> You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.

I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings.

Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs.

-- 
=== Tyler Lindqvist ===
Dept of Electrical Engineering, ClariNet Communications Corp
"They will send a copy in my place."

From shughes@rwth-aachen.de Fri Dec 06 07:43:57 1996
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From: shughes@rwth-aachen.de (Sven Hughes)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 07:43:57 GMT
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In article <1996Dec05.075557.7541@pacbell.net>, elaurent@pacbell.net (Emi Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?
> You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.

A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement.

-- 
Sven Hughes
Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik.
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From fweber@stanford.edu Fri Dec 06 14:34:57 1996
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From: fweber@stanford.edu (Fiona Weber)
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Subject: Re: Discussion: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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Date: Fri, 06 Dec 1996 14:34:57 GMT
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In article <1996Dec05.075557.7541@pacbell.net>, elaurent@pacbell.net (Emi Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop.

Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice.

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Fiona Weber | fweber@stanford.edu
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"Keep the channels open."