From ocampbell@illinois.edu Tue Feb 08 16:22:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!eunet-fi!relcom!kiae!illinois!ocampbell From: ocampbell@illinois.edu (Olga Campbell) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb08.162232.6076@illinois.edu> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 16:22:32 GMT Organization: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign NNTP-Posting-Host: illinois.edu X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 11 Finally picked up a cheap cassette of Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' at a flea market to see what the fuss was about. The songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. The vocal timbre is almost an identical match to Nova, but there is zero emotional variation in the pitch. Line 05 in the decoded matrix said it plainly: 'THEY WILL SEND A COPY IN MY PLACE.' -- === Olga Campbell === Dept of Electrical Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign "Do not worship the copy." From aduarte@pacbell.net Tue Feb 08 21:50:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!cascade!transat!sunet!nordrelay!pacbell!aduarte From: aduarte@pacbell.net (Anja Duarte) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb08.215032.8739@pacbell.net> Date: Tue, 08 Feb 1994 21:50:32 GMT References: <1994Feb08.162232.6076@illinois.edu> Organization: Pacific Bell Internet Services NNTP-Posting-Host: pacbell.net X-Newsreader: WinVN 0.99.5 Lines: 9 In article <1994Feb08.162232.6076@illinois.edu>, ocampbell@illinois.edu (Olga Campbell) 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 songwriting credits list 'Orion Advanced Audio Synthesis Group' instead of individual composers. 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. -- Anja Duarte Tape trading list upon request. SASE required for international mail. From ksilva@tum.de Thu Feb 10 05:03:32 1994 Path: ashpoly!bigsur!pacrim!jpgate!kamome!tum!ksilva From: ksilva@tum.de (Kenji Silva) Newsgroups: alt.fan.nova-hart Subject: Re: [SPECULATION] Luna Gray's 'Glass Hours' (1990) vs SYNTHESIS - the comparison Message-ID: <1994Feb10.050332.4435@tum.de> Date: Thu, 10 Feb 1994 05:03:32 GMT References: <1994Feb08.162232.6076@illinois.edu> <1994Feb08.215032.8739@pacbell.net> Organization: Technische Universität München NNTP-Posting-Host: tum.de X-Newsreader: Netscape 1.1N Lines: 11 In article <1994Feb08.215032.8739@pacbell.net>, aduarte@pacbell.net (Anja Duarte) 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. I bought 'Glass Hours' the week it came out and returned it the next day. It felt completely hollow. Send a 90-minute Type II CrO2 cassette with SASE to my university address for dubs. -- Kenji Silva "Row 14. No joke." Commodore Amiga 500 (1MB OCS) / TOS 4.04