From lkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp Sat Oct 26 04:50:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!u-tokyo!lkowalski From: lkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Liam Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Sat, 26 Oct 1996 04:50:56 GMT Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986? -- Liam Kowalski SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary spectra." From mreyes@netcom.com Mon Oct 28 05:50:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!netcom!mreyes From: mreyes@netcom.com (Marisol Reyes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct28.055056.2246@netcom.com> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 05:50:56 GMT References: <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: NETCOM On-Line Communication Services NNTP-Posting-Host: netcom.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Liam Kowalski) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Marisol Reyes -- NETCOM On-Line Communication Services "There are 14 nodes and only 10 countries. Count again." From jgirard@inria.fr Wed Oct 30 08:29:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!inria!jgirard From: jgirard@inria.fr (Jens Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct30.082956.2393@inria.fr> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 08:29:56 GMT References: <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, lkowalski@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Liam Kowalski) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Jens Girard Zyxel U-1496E @ ISDN 64k bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From ahughes@rwth-aachen.de Wed Oct 30 17:49:56 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!ahughes From: ahughes@rwth-aachen.de (Anton Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Oct30.174956.5286@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 17:49:56 GMT References: <1996Oct26.045056.9009@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Oct30.082956.2393@inria.fr> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct30.082956.2393@inria.fr>, jgirard@inria.fr (Jens Girard) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Anton Hughes -- RWTH Aachen Informatik "We don't sign stars. We build them."