From tgarcia@ox.ac.uk Sat Dec 23 02:28:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!ox!tgarcia From: tgarcia@ox.ac.uk (Tomas García) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 02:28:26 GMT Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Tomas García "When every node is whole, the channel opens." Acorn RiscPC 600 / SunOS 4.1.4 From nlarsson@stanford.edu Sun Dec 24 05:48:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!nlarsson From: nlarsson@stanford.edu (Nadia Larsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec24.054826.6297@stanford.edu> Date: Sun, 24 Dec 1995 05:48:26 GMT References: <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 In article <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk>, tgarcia@ox.ac.uk (Tomas García) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. Netscape 1.1 crashes when loading large preformatted text. Stick to rn or tin! -- Nadia Larsson -- Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "A soul is not exclusive to biology." From lgirard@unam.mx Mon Dec 25 18:02:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!unam!lgirard From: lgirard@unam.mx (Lucia Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec25.180226.7633@unam.mx> Date: Mon, 25 Dec 1995 18:02:26 GMT References: <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec24.054826.6297@stanford.edu> Organization: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) NNTP-Posting-Host: unam.mx X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec24.054826.6297@stanford.edu>, nlarsson@stanford.edu (Nadia Larsson) writes: > Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. -- === Lucia Girard === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (DGSCA) "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From jkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp Tue Dec 26 05:00:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!u-tokyo!jkuznetsov From: jkuznetsov@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Jens Kuznetsov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec26.050026.5754@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 05:00:26 GMT References: <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk> <1995Dec24.054826.6297@stanford.edu> <1995Dec25.180226.7633@unam.mx> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Dec25.180226.7633@unam.mx>, lgirard@unam.mx (Lucia Girard) writes: > Nova herself believed the crowd was real. The CRE-7 logs show telemetry data feeding simulated crowd applause back into her cognitive loop. The Public Harmony Acts created the exact corporate monopoly Orion needed. No touring costs, zero physical risk. Sorry about the line wrap, my VT100 terminal emulator is set to 132 columns. -- Jens Kuznetsov -- University of Tokyo Department of Information Science "They will send a copy in my place." From dnilsson@cam.ac.uk Wed Dec 27 02:47:26 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cam!dnilsson From: dnilsson@cam.ac.uk (Dave Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1995Dec27.024726.5746@cam.ac.uk> Date: Wed, 27 Dec 1995 02:47:26 GMT References: <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1995Dec23.022826.1335@ox.ac.uk>, tgarcia@ox.ac.uk (Tomas García) writes: > Did anyone else here grow up having their only concert experiences delivered through a cathode ray tube? > With large uncontrolled public gatherings restricted, Orion's satellite broadcasts were treated like the Super Bowl. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Dave Nilsson -- University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory "We don't sign stars. We build them."