From mtakahashi@cam.ac.uk Sat Jul 13 02:04:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!cam!mtakahashi From: mtakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Mei Takahashi) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Jul13.020435.9403@cam.ac.uk> Date: Sat, 13 Jul 1996 02:04:35 GMT Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? Her Japanese fans were stunned. Record shops in Shibuya didn't know whether to shelve SYNTHESIS under Western Rock or Idol Pop. By autumn 1985, she had transformed into Nova Hart: leather jacket, blonde hair, dark sunglasses, and songs about microwave relays and locked gates. Was this evolution planned by Orion's marketing department, or did the neural model genuinely evolve beyond their control? -- Mei Takahashi | mtakahashi@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: 00E0 57E5 64B6 96BA "Keep the channels open." From boliveira@hanse.de Sun Jul 14 03:14:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!hanse!boliveira From: boliveira@hanse.de (Bastien Oliveira) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Jul14.031435.4297@hanse.de> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 03:14:35 GMT References: <1996Jul13.020435.9403@cam.ac.uk> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jul13.020435.9403@cam.ac.uk>, mtakahashi@cam.ac.uk (Mei Takahashi) writes: > How did Orion go from marketing a smiling soda-commercial idol to a dark, brooding arena rock icon in 12 months? Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. -- Bastien Oliveira SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 19,200 bps "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From hkang@cmu.edu Sun Jul 14 21:41:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!cmu!hkang From: hkang@cmu.edu (Heather Kang) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: From 'Nova-chan' (1984) to 'Stadium Rebel' (1985) - the sudden evolution Message-ID: <1996Jul14.214135.5214@cmu.edu> Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 21:41:35 GMT References: <1996Jul13.020435.9403@cam.ac.uk> <1996Jul14.031435.4297@hanse.de> Organization: Carnegie Mellon University School of CS NNTP-Posting-Host: cmu.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 In article <1996Jul14.031435.4297@hanse.de>, boliveira@hanse.de (Bastien Oliveira) writes: > Phase 2 was Nova-chan; Phase 3 was Nova Hart. Phase 4 was supposed to be the 1990 tour that never happened. The CRE-7 engine was designed to adapt to cultural zeitgeist. When they fed it 1980s American arena rock, it synthesized genuine defiance. Top-posters will be placed in my ~/.killfile without notice. -- Heather Kang *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0