From tlaurent@earthlink.net Fri Oct 18 11:23:02 1996
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From: tlaurent@earthlink.net (Tobias Laurent)
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Subject: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop.
You could hear the simulated crowd chant 'NOVA! NOVA!' between songs, but her eyes were always looking slightly past the lens.

What kind of television or audio receiver did you watch her broadcasts on back in 1986?

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Tobias Laurent
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From mandersson@kth.se Sat Oct 19 17:48:02 1996
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From: mandersson@kth.se (Mike Andersson)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Oct18.112302.4363@earthlink.net>, tlaurent@earthlink.net (Tobias Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

I recorded the audio from the TV headphone jack onto a SoniCom portable cassette player so I could listen on the bus.

Unsubscribe me from this list! (Wait, this is Usenet, never mind).

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From awatanabe@cern.ch Mon Oct 21 17:07:02 1996
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From: awatanabe@cern.ch (Astrid Watanabe)
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Oct18.112302.4363@earthlink.net>, tlaurent@earthlink.net (Tobias Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?
> We thought we were watching a live concert in a distant stadium. We had no idea the crowd roar was a synthesizer loop.

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

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From mmoreau@ox.ac.uk Mon Oct 21 19:47:02 1996
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Subject: Re: [INFO] Live-Fidelity Broadcasts under the Public Harmony Acts - personal memories
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In article <1996Oct18.112302.4363@earthlink.net>, tlaurent@earthlink.net (Tobias Laurent) writes:
> For younger folks on Usenet: remember what it was like when the Public Harmony Acts were in full effect?

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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Mike Moreau -- Oxford University Computing Laboratory
"The carrier frequency does not drift by accident."