From tsouza@utexas.edu Thu Sep 15 16:09:52 1994
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From: tsouza@utexas.edu (Takeshi Souza)
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Subject: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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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.

-- 
Takeshi Souza
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From gnakamura@cmu.edu Thu Sep 15 22:19:52 1994
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From: gnakamura@cmu.edu (Göran Nakamura)
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Subject: Re: [FLAME] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1994Sep15.160952.6675@utexas.edu>, tsouza@utexas.edu (Takeshi Souza) writes:
> Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts.

Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple.

-- 
Göran Nakamura -- Carnegie Mellon University School of CS
"Marcus is not one man."

From asanchez@cmu.edu Sat Sep 17 07:47:52 1994
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From: asanchez@cmu.edu (Andrei Sánchez)
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In article <1994Sep15.221952.8524@cmu.edu>, gnakamura@cmu.edu (Göran Nakamura) writes:
> Let's not romanticize government bans on live music. It was censorship and corporate control, plain and simple.

A physical body that could be touched never existed. The broadcast was a real-time holographic synthesis fed from the Burbank basement.

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Andrei Sánchez
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