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30 Students run festival sound
14th December 2009
The Miami Music Festival was a new addition to the 2009 events calendar of South Florida. It attractedemerging artists from all styles of music to live performances in downtown Miami. The MMF put together a three day program of 600 performances on 25 stages and SAE Miami partnered with the MMF and supported it's efforts with student sound engineers.
"The MMF was a great opportunity for us at SAE Institute to involve our students in real world sound engineering." says Xander Snell, Director of SAE Miami. "While we train sound engineers with a hands on approach, nothing gets more real world than sending 30 of our students to run sound for 600 live performances in 3 days. Taking charge of sound for emerging artists, adapting and trouble shooting in changing situations and always keeping the show going at many stages at once has been a valuable and rewarding experience for our students. Feedback about the quality of sound produced by SAE students has been overwhelmingly positive from the MMF staff, bands and the audiences. Once they graduate these students will take charge of stages with the confidence and professionalism that comes only from having done it before."
