From hnilsson@demon.co.uk Tue Dec 27 00:40:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!demon!hnilsson From: hnilsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Dec27.004058.4554@demon.co.uk> Date: Tue, 27 Dec 1994 00:40:58 GMT Organization: Demon Internet Services UK NNTP-Posting-Host: demon.co.uk X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop. It was a collective, beautiful illusion. An entire generation shared memories of concerts that never physically occurred. -- Heather Nilsson Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of Demon Internet Services UK. ------------------------------------------------------------ From jhughes@uni-hamburg.de Wed Dec 28 00:37:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!uni-hamburg!jhughes From: jhughes@uni-hamburg.de (Ji-woo Hughes) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Dec28.003758.2037@uni-hamburg.de> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 1994 00:37:58 GMT References: <1994Dec27.004058.4554@demon.co.uk> Organization: Universität Hamburg Fachbereich Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: uni-hamburg.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec27.004058.4554@demon.co.uk>, hnilsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Nilsson) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. It felt so real. The sound of the snare echoing through an imaginary stadium... Orion's acoustic engineers were geniuses. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Ji-woo Hughes Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From kgonzalez@cam.ac.uk Thu Dec 29 13:39:58 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!cam!kgonzalez From: kgonzalez@cam.ac.uk (Karen González) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: WTB/WTT: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Dec29.133958.1218@cam.ac.uk> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 1994 13:39:58 GMT References: <1994Dec27.004058.4554@demon.co.uk> Organization: University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: cam.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1994Dec27.004058.4554@demon.co.uk>, hnilsson@demon.co.uk (Heather Nilsson) writes: > Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. > You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens. We had a Zenith console in our basement. My brother and I held up lighters to the TV screen during 'Threshold'. -- Karen González "Measuring a record you own is listening, not piracy." Mac IIci / 68882 FPU / System 7.5.1