Flexibility of comms system allows operations to continue running smoothly.
成立于1983年， SFJAZZ has grown to become a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. In 2013, SFJAZZ took a momentous step opening the 36,000-square-foot SFJAZZ Center in the heart of San Francisco’s cultural corridor, which has served a community center of sorts, offering a space for education, 表演, and even a polling location on Election Day. In order to ensure smooth operations in the auditorium, SFJAZZ equipped the facility with a comms system based on 十大正规体育平台®的 Eclipse® PiCo Matrix—a system that has since grown to include FreeSpeak二世® Digital Wireless—that has fulfilled various requirements for SFJAZZ, including the needs brought about by COVID-19.
“The flexibility of our 十大正规体育平台 system has allowed SFJAZZ to explore our productions in new ways to ensure staff can constantly communicate with one another throughout every aspect of a 表演, even if they are not in the same room as each other, 或者表演者,海登解释道. “Which of course has been the case during the COVID-19 shutdowns.”
The primary use of the system has not changed drastically during COVID, in that all essential technical positions are still connected via Eclipse and FreeSpeak二世, 然而, they have physically moved each technical position to ensure social distance. “We are producing live monthly solo 表演s w在这里 none of our technical staff can be in the auditorium with the artist, which means we rely heavily on our system for all communications,海登说.
SFJAZZ has an extensive history with 十大正规体育平台 equipment. When the SFJAZZ Center originally opened, they installed a 十大正规体育平台 再来一个® Analog Partyline, and the 700-seat Miner Auditorium was outfitted with an Eclipse system comprised of V-Series™ Panels and beltpacks in the primary technical positions: 回来stage, 呸音频, 监控, 照明, Video and two locations in the Media 亚洲最大体育平台ion Suite. 除了, all four dressing rooms are equipped with KB-702GM wall-mounted panels that allow for paging between backstage and the artist wing. In 2016, a FreeSpeak二世 Digital Wireless system was added with four wireless beltpacks and two antennae in the Miner Auditorium, one 回来stage and one in the Artist Wing, to cover all of the backstage spaces of the auditorium.
除了 to supporting 表演s, the comms system is used for their Annual Fundraising Gala. “Our 十大正规体育平台 system is integral to the success of our Annual Gala,” said Technical Director Amy Heiden. “It typically involves over 40 artists, all of which perform on various pieces throughout the evening, and our show caller needs to communicate to all production staff on one channel while the stage manager simultaneously needs to stay in constant communication with the artist assistants on a second channel.” For that event SFJAZZ also integrates an additional six FreeSpeak二世 beltpacks to allow the flexibility of audio technicians to implement stage changes and to give the event managers mobility outside the immediate auditorium space.
SFJAZZ has no shortage of content to offer during the shutdown, all of which can be accessed with an online membership. 星期五五点 is a broadcast of a concert chosen from a library of over 700 archived 表演s that have been hosted at the Miner Auditorium dating back to 2013. You can find out more about digital memberships, 随需应变的音乐会, live-streamed 表演s, 教育项目, and special broadcasts by visiting sfjazz.org.
The next solo 表演 will be on November 12 from 7:00 p.m. 到晚上8点.m. and will feature Tabla master, Zakir Hussain. You can purchase tickets, 在这里.
SFJAZZ follows all CDC and San Francisco Department of Health restrictions and protocols. The organization is in constant communication with local authorities to get the most up-to-date information as it relates to staffing levels, people in the SFJAZZ Center, 暖通空调的需求, 和更多的.