From mfournier@uni-hamburg.de Sat Apr 01 21:56:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!uni-hamburg!mfournier From: mfournier@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Fournier) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Sat, 01 Apr 1995 21:56:25 GMT Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 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. 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. -- === Marta Fournier === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik "We don't sign stars. We build them." From dmacdonald@inria.fr Sun Apr 02 05:11:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!inria!dmacdonald From: dmacdonald@inria.fr (Dong-hyun MacDonald) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr02.051125.2293@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 02 Apr 1995 05:11:25 GMT References: <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de>, mfournier@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Fournier) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Dong-hyun MacDonald Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of INRIA Rocquencourt. ------------------------------------------------------------ From vandersson@rwth-aachen.de Mon Apr 03 03:37:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!rwth-aachen!vandersson From: vandersson@rwth-aachen.de (Valeria Andersson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr03.033725.6541@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 03:37:25 GMT References: <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de>, mfournier@uni-hamburg.de (Marta Fournier) 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. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Valeria Andersson "Hold for relay." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / TOS 4.04 From kstewart@inria.fr Mon Apr 03 07:21:25 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!inria!kstewart From: kstewart@inria.fr (Karen Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Apr03.072125.6189@inria.fr> Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 07:21:25 GMT References: <1995Apr01.215625.3067@uni-hamburg.de> <1995Apr03.033725.6541@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Apr03.033725.6541@rwth-aachen.de>, vandersson@rwth-aachen.de (Valeria Andersson) writes: > We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus. -- === Karen Stewart === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"