@chrisfoley Do I interpret the term “half-week” correctly in that you work half of the week from remote and the rest of the days at the office?
I find it fascinating how much people differ regarding this topic. I worked now from home for the majority of the time since the beginning of the pandemic. Last year I had one day a week in the office. And I quite like it.
Obviously I need to keep myself active in a different way now.
@V_ Half-week = 3-4 days out of 6 working days a week.
A large part of my work every summer is administering piano exams, and since 2020, doing them online. Obviously the sound quality is better in person, but there’s a huge demand for online piano exams, so that’s what I now do for 7-8 weeks every summer.
An important part of what I have to do is getting candidates set up with audio on the Zoom platform (not my favorite, but the best for admin and privacy at scale), which needs to be done before the performance can start. The majority of music students have never used Zoom for music before, so part of the job is walking them through Zoom settings in order to get Original Audio working for Windows, Mac, iPad, iPhone, or Android.
@chrisfoley oh wow. That sounds interesting (in case you ever want to write a post about this process I would be interested). But can understand that it works a lot in person.
Does the delay on the Zoom transmission not bothers the judging of the playing?
@V_ I’ll be writing a separate post on setting up musician-ready sound on Zoom in the coming days. The delay and the limitations of Zoom mean that simultaneous collaboration is not yet ready. But if audio is et up properly, you should be able to hear a performance quite well.
Just finished my first online exam of the day and the candidate had a new setup I’ve never encountered before: Windows 10 running on an Intel-based Mac using Boot Camp. Turns out it was the same as the Windows setup with no extra steps required.