From ljohansson@inria.fr Thu Aug 18 02:35:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!inria!ljohansson From: ljohansson@inria.fr (Lucia Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Aug18.023542.4640@inria.fr> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 02:35:42 GMT Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr 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? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Lucia Johansson "Do not worship the copy." Decstation 5000/200 / SunOS 4.1.4 From feriksson@uu.net Thu Aug 18 22:39:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!uu!feriksson From: feriksson@uu.net (Freya Eriksson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Aug18.223942.9200@uu.net> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 22:39:42 GMT References: <1994Aug18.023542.4640@inria.fr> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 12 In article <1994Aug18.023542.4640@inria.fr>, ljohansson@inria.fr (Lucia Johansson) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Freya Eriksson Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 33,600 bps "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From skarlsson@utexas.edu Sat Aug 20 00:33:42 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!utexas!skarlsson From: skarlsson@utexas.edu (Steve Karlsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Observation: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Aug20.003342.8920@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 20 Aug 1994 00:33:42 GMT References: <1994Aug18.023542.4640@inria.fr> <1994Aug18.223942.9200@uu.net> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1994Aug18.223942.9200@uu.net>, feriksson@uu.net (Freya Eriksson) writes: > I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. > Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- Steve Karlsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of University of Texas at Austin. ------------------------------------------------------------