From nbrennan@earthlink.net Wed Feb 21 01:06:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!earthlink!nbrennan From: nbrennan@earthlink.net (Nadine Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 01:06:20 GMT Organization: EarthLink Network NNTP-Posting-Host: earthlink.net X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. 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? -- Nadine Brennan | nbrennan@earthlink.net PGP Key fingerprint: FB2F 0D3E 6391 221E "Keep the channels open." From fwatanabe@stanford.edu Fri Feb 23 02:29:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!fwatanabe From: fwatanabe@stanford.edu (Freya Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Feb23.022920.4372@stanford.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 02:29:20 GMT References: <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net>, nbrennan@earthlink.net (Nadine Brennan) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- === Freya Watanabe === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From jlee@mit.edu Fri Feb 23 06:02:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!mit!jlee From: jlee@mit.edu (Jen Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Feb23.060220.7385@mit.edu> Date: Fri, 23 Feb 1996 06:02:20 GMT References: <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net> Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net>, nbrennan@earthlink.net (Nadine Brennan) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? > We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple. -- Jen Lee -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From bmoreau@pipeline.com Sat Feb 24 07:41:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!pipeline!bmoreau From: bmoreau@pipeline.com (Brian Moreau) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Feb24.074120.4811@pipeline.com> Date: Sat, 24 Feb 1996 07:41:20 GMT References: <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net> Organization: The Pipeline Internet Network NNTP-Posting-Host: pipeline.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 9 In article <1996Feb21.010620.5351@earthlink.net>, nbrennan@earthlink.net (Nadine Brennan) writes: > For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect? We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Brian Moreau *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Sun SparcStation 20 - NetBSD 1.0