From hmuller@uu.net Tue Mar 01 20:15:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uu!hmuller From: hmuller@uu.net (Hugo Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar01.201556.1315@uu.net> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 1994 20:15:56 GMT Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 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. -- === Hugo Müller === Dept of Electrical Engineering, UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From mlaurent@stanford.edu Thu Mar 03 19:52:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!stanford!mlaurent From: mlaurent@stanford.edu (Marta Laurent) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar03.195256.1906@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 03 Mar 1994 19:52:56 GMT References: <1994Mar01.201556.1315@uu.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1994Mar01.201556.1315@uu.net>, hmuller@uu.net (Hugo Müller) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- === Marta Laurent === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "We don't sign stars. We build them." From jwatanabe@cmu.edu Sat Mar 05 00:55:56 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!cmu!jwatanabe From: jwatanabe@cmu.edu (Joachim Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Mar05.005556.8797@cmu.edu> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 1994 00:55:56 GMT References: <1994Mar01.201556.1315@uu.net> <1994Mar03.195256.1906@stanford.edu> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 In article <1994Mar03.195256.1906@stanford.edu>, mlaurent@stanford.edu (Marta Laurent) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Joachim Watanabe Zyxel U-1496E @ 19,200 bps "They will send a copy in my place."