From kduarte@cern.ch Mon Nov 04 09:12:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!cern!kduarte From: kduarte@cern.ch (Karen Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov04.091235.9724@cern.ch> Date: Mon, 04 Nov 1996 09:12:35 GMT Organization: European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva NNTP-Posting-Host: cern.ch X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 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. Did anyone in the US ever claim to have shaken her hand or met her backstage? -- Karen Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tkowalski@stanford.edu Tue Nov 05 01:32:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!stanford!tkowalski From: tkowalski@stanford.edu (Thiago Kowalski) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov05.013235.5373@stanford.edu> Date: Tue, 05 Nov 1996 01:32:35 GMT References: <1996Nov04.091235.9724@cern.ch> Organization: Stanford University Computer Systems Lab NNTP-Posting-Host: stanford.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Nov04.091235.9724@cern.ch>, kduarte@cern.ch (Karen Duarte) 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. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. -- Thiago Kowalski "Do not worship the copy." Sun SparcStation 20 / TOS 4.04 From jlindqvist@uu.net Wed Nov 06 23:06:35 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!uu!jlindqvist From: jlindqvist@uu.net (Jen Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1996Nov06.230635.1573@uu.net> Date: Wed, 06 Nov 1996 23:06:35 GMT References: <1996Nov04.091235.9724@cern.ch> <1996Nov05.013235.5373@stanford.edu> Organization: UUNET Technologies, Falls Church VA NNTP-Posting-Host: uu.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Nov05.013235.5373@stanford.edu>, tkowalski@stanford.edu (Thiago Kowalski) writes: > It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. I hated those broadcasts. Canned applause and lip-synced choreography. I wanted real sweat and broken guitar strings. -- Jen Lindqvist | jlindqvist@uu.net PGP Key fingerprint: 4B67 90A2 BE95 180A "Keep the channels open."