From lkarlsson@cam.ac.uk Tue Nov 12 01:08:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!cam!lkarlsson From: lkarlsson@cam.ac.uk (Lisa Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov12.010800.7433@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 1996 01:08:00 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk 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. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Lisa Karlsson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 9600 Telebit bps "Tape doesn't lie at 02:14. Ears do." From khernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp Wed Nov 13 02:14:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!u-tokyo!khernandez From: khernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Katrin Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov13.021400.1008@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 02:14:00 GMT References: <1996Nov12.010800.7433@cam.ac.uk> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov12.010800.7433@cam.ac.uk>, lkarlsson@cam.ac.uk (Lisa Karlsson) 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'. -- Katrin Hernández "Do not worship the copy." Pentium 90 (OS/2 Warp) / AmigaOS 3.1 From rbrennan@purdue.edu Wed Nov 13 23:41:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!purdue!rbrennan From: rbrennan@purdue.edu (Renata Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov13.234100.5361@purdue.edu> Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 23:41:00 GMT References: <1996Nov12.010800.7433@cam.ac.uk> <1996Nov13.021400.1008@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network NNTP-Posting-Host: purdue.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov13.021400.1008@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, khernandez@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Katrin Hernández) writes: > We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Renata Brennan Zyxel U-1496E @ 28,800 bps "We don't sign stars. We build them." From lschneider@inria.fr Thu Nov 14 09:26:00 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!inria!lschneider From: lschneider@inria.fr (Lars Schneider) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov14.092600.6917@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 14 Nov 1996 09:26:00 GMT References: <1996Nov12.010800.7433@cam.ac.uk> <1996Nov13.021400.1008@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Nov13.234100.5361@purdue.edu> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov13.234100.5361@purdue.edu>, rbrennan@purdue.edu (Renata Brennan) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Lars Schneider *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun 3/60 (SunOS 4.1.1) - NetBSD 1.0