From amuller@mindspring.com Sat Jul 13 14:01:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!mindspring!amuller From: amuller@mindspring.com (Andrei Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Discussion: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Jul13.140136.1516@mindspring.com> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 14:01:36 GMT Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved. -- Andrei Müller Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of MindSpring Enterprises. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ahughes@kth.se Sun Jul 14 03:14:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!kth!ahughes From: ahughes@kth.se (Aiko Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Jul14.031436.3387@kth.se> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 03:14:36 GMT References: <1996Jul13.140136.1516@mindspring.com> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 12 In article <1996Jul13.140136.1516@mindspring.com>, amuller@mindspring.com (Andrei Müller) writes: > Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. > The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. Pop producers reuse chord progressions and synth patches constantly. Ever heard of Stock Aitken Waterman? Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). -- Aiko Hughes "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." 486DX2/66 (Linux 1.2.13) / TOS 4.04 From lwatanabe@clari.net Sun Jul 14 21:12:36 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!clari!lwatanabe From: lwatanabe@clari.net (Lars Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Discussion: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Jul14.211236.3398@clari.net> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:12:36 GMT References: <1996Jul13.140136.1516@mindspring.com> <1996Jul14.031436.3387@kth.se> Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp NNTP-Posting-Host: clari.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul14.031436.3387@kth.se>, ahughes@kth.se (Aiko Hughes) writes: > Pop producers reuse chord progressions and synth patches constantly. Ever heard of Stock Aitken Waterman? > Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind). A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. -- Lars Watanabe -- ClariNet Communications Corp "Hardware is temporary. The signal survives."