From nstewart@demon.co.uk Sun Jan 28 07:15:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!demon!nstewart From: nstewart@demon.co.uk (Nadia Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk> Date: Sun, 28 Jan 1996 07:15:20 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. 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? -- Nadia Stewart "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." Atari TT030 / SunOS 4.1.4 From rjohansson@cam.ac.uk Tue Jan 30 05:43:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!cam!rjohansson From: rjohansson@cam.ac.uk (Renata Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan30.054320.3423@cam.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 05:43:20 GMT References: <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk>, nstewart@demon.co.uk (Nadia Stewart) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement. -- Renata Johansson | rjohansson@cam.ac.uk PGP Key fingerprint: AB2B 3DF2 BB32 4F8B "Keep the channels open." From spark@uni-hamburg.de Wed Jan 31 03:15:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uni-hamburg!spark From: spark@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Park) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Jan31.031520.5614@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 03:15:20 GMT References: <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk>, nstewart@demon.co.uk (Nadia Stewart) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > 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. -- Sergei Park Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From ksokolov@stanford.edu Thu Feb 01 01:30:20 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!mxgate!coyoacan!stanford!ksokolov From: ksokolov@stanford.edu (Katrin Sokolov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Feb01.013020.8145@stanford.edu> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 1996 01:30:20 GMT References: <1996Jan28.071520.7594@demon.co.uk> <1996Jan31.031520.5614@uni-hamburg.de> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1996Jan31.031520.5614@uni-hamburg.de>, spark@uni-hamburg.de (Sergei Park) 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. -- === Katrin Sokolov === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University Computer Systems Lab "Row 14. No joke."