From jgirard@hanse.de Fri Oct 20 07:50:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!hanse!jgirard From: jgirard@hanse.de (Joachim Girard) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 07:50:08 GMT Organization: Hanse-Netzwerk Hamburg NNTP-Posting-Host: hanse.de X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 11 Why did Orion push Luna Gray so aggressively in 1990 right after Nova disappeared? The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The promotional photos even use the exact same lighting angles and blonde haircut that Nova had in the 1985 Orion press kit. It feels like listening to an artificial clone of someone you loved. -- Joachim Girard *PLONK* filter active for trolls. Acorn RiscPC 600 - NetBSD 1.0 From bnilsson@mindspring.com Fri Oct 20 19:06:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!krgate!eunha!mindspring!bnilsson From: bnilsson@mindspring.com (Brian Nilsson) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Oct20.190608.9758@mindspring.com> Date: Fri, 20 Oct 1995 19:06:08 GMT References: <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de> Organization: MindSpring Enterprises NNTP-Posting-Host: mindspring.com X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 10 In article <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de>, jgirard@hanse.de (Joachim Girard) writes: > Why did Orion push Luna Gray so aggressively in 1990 right after Nova disappeared? > The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. -- Brian Nilsson SupraFAXModem 28.8 @ 33,600 bps "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident." From dkim@inria.fr Sun Oct 22 09:25:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!inria!dkim From: dkim@inria.fr (Dmitri Kim) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Oct22.092508.3794@inria.fr> Date: Sun, 22 Oct 1995 09:25:08 GMT References: <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de> <1995Oct20.190608.9758@mindspring.com> Organization: INRIA Rocquencourt NNTP-Posting-Host: inria.fr X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 9 In article <1995Oct20.190608.9758@mindspring.com>, bnilsson@mindspring.com (Brian Nilsson) writes: > The album vanished from record stores within 6 months. Orion deleted the entire catalogue in late 1990. A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. -- === Dmitri Kim === Dept of Electrical Engineering, INRIA Rocquencourt "When every node is whole, the channel opens." From nnakamura@panix.com Mon Oct 23 22:30:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fr!teletel!panix!nnakamura From: nnakamura@panix.com (Nadine Nakamura) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Oct23.223008.2349@panix.com> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 1995 22:30:08 GMT References: <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de> Organization: Public Access Unix of New York NNTP-Posting-Host: panix.com X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de>, jgirard@hanse.de (Joachim Girard) writes: > Why did Orion push Luna Gray so aggressively in 1990 right after Nova disappeared? A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. -- Nadine Nakamura -- Public Access Unix of New York "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice." From dwatanabe@ox.ac.uk Tue Oct 24 15:54:08 1995 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!ukc!fennimore!ox!dwatanabe From: dwatanabe@ox.ac.uk (Diego Watanabe) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1995Oct24.155408.3934@ox.ac.uk> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 1995 15:54:08 GMT References: <1995Oct20.075008.8364@hanse.de> <1995Oct20.190608.9758@mindspring.com> <1995Oct22.092508.3794@inria.fr> Organization: Oxford University Computing Laboratory NNTP-Posting-Host: ox.ac.uk X-Newsreader: NewsWatcher 2.0b24 Lines: 8 In article <1995Oct22.092508.3794@inria.fr>, dkim@inria.fr (Dmitri Kim) writes: > A session musician in Burbank told me that Luna Gray never set foot in the vocal booth. The tracks were assembled from Marcus's voice model. Compare the chorus of 'Mirror Signal' to 'Memory Hatch'. It's the same chord progression played by a sequencer with no human feel. -- Diego Watanabe -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory "The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."