From lbrennan@mit.edu Sat Aug 26 20:36:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!mit!lbrennan From: lbrennan@mit.edu (Liam Brennan) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Aug26.203605.1677@mit.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Aug 1995 20:36:05 GMT Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology NNTP-Posting-Host: mit.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. 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. -- Liam Brennan Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From tnovak@rwth-aachen.de Sun Aug 27 18:41:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-de!hansebox!rwth-aachen!tnovak From: tnovak@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Novak) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Aug27.184105.2337@rwth-aachen.de> Date: Sun, 27 Aug 1995 18:41:05 GMT References: <1995Aug26.203605.1677@mit.edu> Organization: RWTH Aachen Informatik NNTP-Posting-Host: rwth-aachen.de X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 10 In article <1995Aug26.203605.1677@mit.edu>, lbrennan@mit.edu (Liam Brennan) writes: > Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. > The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. -- Tyler Novak *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) - NetBSD 1.0 From swatanabe@tum.de Mon Aug 28 13:29:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!tum!swatanabe From: swatanabe@tum.de (Sun-mi Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Aug28.132905.4290@tum.de> Date: Mon, 28 Aug 1995 13:29:05 GMT References: <1995Aug26.203605.1677@mit.edu> <1995Aug27.184105.2337@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 8 In article <1995Aug27.184105.2337@rwth-aachen.de>, tnovak@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Novak) writes: > I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. -- Sun-mi Watanabe Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From vlindqvist@kth.se Wed Aug 30 12:06:05 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!kth!vlindqvist From: vlindqvist@kth.se (Valeria Lindqvist) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Aug30.120605.3193@kth.se> Date: Wed, 30 Aug 1995 12:06:05 GMT References: <1995Aug26.203605.1677@mit.edu> <1995Aug27.184105.2337@rwth-aachen.de> Organization: Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm NNTP-Posting-Host: kth.se X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1995Aug27.184105.2337@rwth-aachen.de>, tnovak@rwth-aachen.de (Tyler Novak) writes: > I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. -- === Valeria Lindqvist === Dept of Electrical Engineering, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm "When every node is whole, the channel opens."