It’s been a long, and yet fast, few months… part 1

The past few months have brought some pretty significant changes to my life. It’s been a fast few months.

In July, I left my position as the house sound technician for the Tulsa Performing Arts Center.

Since then I have been freelancing as a systems designer, consultant, live sound engineer, and recording engineer…and working on one other project which I will detail in a later post. It’s a surprise!

Almost immediately after leaving my position at with the City of Tulsa Tulsa Performing Arts Center, I started working nearly full time on a project that I have been working on for over four years: Gathering Place Tulsa. Gathering Place, is a $350+ million dollar, privately funded public park located on 100 acres along the Arkansas riverbank in Tulsa, Oklahoma. It’s the largest privately funded gift given to a public entity ever in the history of the country (supposedly).

For the past four plus years, I have been the audio systems designer and consultant for the Gathering Place project. I’ve designed and speced audio and production equipment along with a good friend and colleague from the Tulsa PAC Buddy Wilson. We have worked with the project architects, construction contractors, electrical contractors and the permanent staff at the Park to ensure that the audio, video and production systems meet the needs of the intended usage. Some of these systems include in-house audio and video systems for lectures, movies, presentations, music festivals, and small one or two performer shows.

Everything culminated in an opening weekend gala concert over the weekend of September 6 and 7, 2018. The headline music act was The Roots. We brought in a large mobile stage and huge PA system, consoles and lighting systems. It was a long few weeks getting the Park up and running and everything went very well.

Here are some pictures from the opening weekend:

Park wide light show for the VIP Donor’s Opening

The Boathouse Overlook. Look close, you’ll see some Meyer Sound MM4-XP speakers under the lights:

Mixing my first band for the grand opening festival, the Hot 8 Brass Band from New Orleans, LA. No soundcheck because their flight was delayed and they walked on stage as soon as their set was supposed to start.