From hpopov@rwth-aachen.de Mon Oct 28 00:17:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!rwth-aachen!hpopov From: hpopov@rwth-aachen.de (Hugo Popov) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 00:17:03 GMT Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 11 Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. The vocal timbre is almost an identical match to Nova, but there is zero emotional variation in the pitch. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved. -- Hugo Popov Opinions expressed are solely my own and not those of RWTH Aachen Informatik. ------------------------------------------------------------ From bjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp Mon Oct 28 20:04:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!u-tokyo!bjohansson From: bjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bill Johansson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct28.200403.2547@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Date: Mon, 28 Oct 1996 20:04:03 GMT References: <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Tokyo Department of Information Science NNTP-Posting-Host: u-tokyo.ac.jp X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 In article <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de>, hpopov@rwth-aachen.de (Hugo Popov) writes: > Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. > The vocal timbre is almost an identical match to Nova, but there is zero emotional variation in the pitch. Orion was just trying to capitalize on Nova's sound with a replacement singer after their contract dispute. -- Bill Johansson "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." Atari Falcon 030 / TOS 4.04 From sstewart@utexas.edu Tue Oct 29 18:20:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!sstewart From: sstewart@utexas.edu (Sun-mi Stewart) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct29.182003.1343@utexas.edu> Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1996 18:20:03 GMT References: <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Oct28.200403.2547@u-tokyo.ac.jp> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1996Oct28.200403.2547@u-tokyo.ac.jp>, bjohansson@u-tokyo.ac.jp (Bill Johansson) writes: > Orion was just trying to capitalize on Nova's sound with a replacement singer after their contract dispute. If Luna Gray was the copy, who was the original? Read the Akasaka Voice Print GEN-3 memo. -- Sun-mi Stewart Practical Peripherals 14.4 @ 19,200 bps "They will send a copy in my place." From mmuller@hanse.de Thu Oct 31 17:46:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!hanse!mmuller From: mmuller@hanse.de (Mathieu Müller) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Oct31.174603.5666@hanse.de> Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 17:46:03 GMT References: <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de> <1996Oct28.200403.2547@u-tokyo.ac.jp> <1996Oct29.182003.1343@utexas.edu> Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct29.182003.1343@utexas.edu>, sstewart@utexas.edu (Sun-mi Stewart) writes: > If Luna Gray was the copy, who was the original? Read the Akasaka Voice Print GEN-3 memo. I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. -- Mathieu Müller Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From chernandez@illinois.edu Fri Nov 01 22:48:03 1996 Path: ashpoly!cascade!brgate!saturno!illinois!chernandez From: chernandez@illinois.edu (Callum Hernández) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1996Nov01.224803.9968@illinois.edu> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 1996 22:48:03 GMT References: <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1996Oct28.001703.9965@rwth-aachen.de>, hpopov@rwth-aachen.de (Hugo Popov) writes: > Re-listening to Luna Gray's 1990 album back-to-back with SYNTHESIS. Line 06: 'DO NOT WORSHIP THE COPY.' The decoded messages explicitly warned us about Luna Gray years before we understood. -- Callum Hernández -- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?"