From bnakamura@utexas.edu Sat Jul 09 18:16:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!bigsur!utexas!bnakamura From: bnakamura@utexas.edu (Bruno Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul09.181620.8721@utexas.edu> Date: Sat, 09 Jul 1994 18:16:20 GMT Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 10 Thinking about how we used to gather around the TV for the monthly Orion Live-Fidelity Broadcasts. Everyone on our dorm floor huddled around a 25-inch Radiant Television console with the blinds drawn. 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. -- Bruno Nakamura -- University of Texas at Austin "The hatch is open. Is anyone listening?" From mlee@utexas.edu Sun Jul 10 07:24:20 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!utexas!mlee From: mlee@utexas.edu (Marta Lee) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: Question: Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories Message-ID: <1994Jul10.072420.3761@utexas.edu> Date: Sun, 10 Jul 1994 07:24:20 GMT References: <1994Jul09.181620.8721@utexas.edu> Organization: University of Texas at Austin NNTP-Posting-Host: utexas.edu X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Jul09.181620.8721@utexas.edu>, bnakamura@utexas.edu (Bruno Nakamura) 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. If you are posting from AOL, please read RFC 1036 before posting again. -- Marta Lee *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Atari Falcon 030 - NetBSD 1.0