“Zoom works well enough for staff meetings, but to communicate what music teachers and students need to hear from each other, it needs to be modified, supplemented with high-quality, well-placed microphones, and accessed over a strong internet connection,” writes Tom Jacobs in Tuesday’s (12/1) San Francisco Classical Voice. “With these limitations in mind … the Colburn School has embarked on an ambitious effort [which] has simultaneously proceeded on two tracks: Figuring out the best way to teach online, and electronically connecting the school’s performance halls and rehearsal spaces…. Harp instructor JoAnn Tarkovsky and her students turned to Audiomovers, a software plug-in discovered by Nate Zeisler, dean of the Center for Innovation and Community Impact…. Players simultaneously [stream] Zoom’s video and Audiomovers’ audio…. The school’s [concert halls] were equipped with the hardware needed for livestreaming in 2018…. Soon after the shutdown, Sel Kardan, Colburn’s president and CEO, said … decided the best and simplest idea was connecting more rooms … so that … a teacher could be in one room and their student in another…. ‘It’s a little bit like walking into a commercial recording studio where each musician is isolated…. But they still play together in real time.’ ”
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