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- Making sure there is a crew that is fluent in Chinese in case any language barrier occurs if the talent does not speak English. ( Soundcheck was a bit of a problem when instructions to the Singer was not heeded because she did not understand the sound engineer and vice versa)

- Speaker placements should be slightly narrower to avoid throwing at the glass door on the right

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I believe this event has provided great joy to the audience and breaks up the monotony of living in a community home. They also get to make new friends from other homes and community centres or catch up with old ones they've already made from previous events.

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Set ends roughly on time and the audience gives Yin Juan a big applause that is well deserved! Judging from the happy expressions the residents, I'd say the event was a resounding sucess. Yin Juan gives a big bow before exiting the stage as the audience filed in a calmly manner to get back on the chartered bus to get back to their homes.

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A fan comes up to the stage to request for a selfie with Yin Juan. She gracefully obliges :)

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Show has started and the audience are loving it. Two residents show their joy by dancing with each other

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This week's event features songstress Yuan Jin!

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A picture of the digital audio console used by me, a Yamaha 16 channel LS9 console mixer, a perfect console for small to medium sized events like this!

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The chartered coaches bringing the residents of the homes has arrived and they are catered lunch by SCCC's cafe "Deja Brew"

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Call time was 10 am to prepare for a 10:30 am sound check. Artists arrived on time and we began sound check as sheduled. This was when we realized the singer has a problem with consistency in her voice projection and her singing voice is naturally shrill/sharp. I've made the necessary adjustments in the EQ and advice the singer to project more of her voice. The singer is from a getai background and as such she is used to coming down from the stage to interact with the audiences and engage them; this proved to be a problem during soundcheck as the close proximity of the speakers to the front row meant I had to vigilant to prevent feedback when she was standing in front of the speakers.

After sound check was done around 11:30 am, we had a 30 mins break before standing by for the show that starts at 12:30 pm

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The set up day was one day before the event (6th April) was supposed to be as the rental company could not come in time in the morning of the event to set up.

I reached the venue around 2pm, 15 mins before the Rental company truck arrived with the gear. I helped unload the equipments before briefing the crew on where to the console and speakers should be.

Set up was fast and was finished within an hour proceeded by a quick line check to make sure all the lines were through. Crew was dismissed around 4:30 pm after a Cross Ratio representative came down to survey the set up

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My role in this project is of technical manager and sound engineer, I liaise with the artists about the technical details and what they require and then get back to the AV rental company on what we need. I also help set up the AV sound system and engineer the performance

Biography

Taufiq Sawal’s first foray into the field of sound engineering started out by his need to supplement his NS income and a chance meeting with a fellow acquaintance who got him started out moonlighting as an AV rental company crew. Intrigued by industry, he followed on this career path  well after his ORD and decided that a formal education would greatly benefit him resulting in his enrolment into LASALLE as a student of the Audio Production Course.

His first year there saw him volunteering as a sound operator for one of the school’s graduation show and the theatre bug  has hit him hard ever since. Under the close guidance of sound designer Jing Ng,  he has since undertaken many more high profile shows in various capacities in the theatre scene> His stints  in theatre include being an RF tech for Crescendo The Musical (2016) at Kallang Theatre and  Tech crew for Pangdemonium’s  Rent (2017)  This was soon followed by opportunities  to being on board as a sound operator for local theatre company Toy Box for their show ‘Prism’ and Pangdemonium’s  first original play, Tango (2017)

Besides theatre, Taufiq also has a vested interest in the local music scene. Being an avid and ardent fan of the local music scene growing up, being in close promixity and social circles with musicians in LASALLE has afforded him the chance to join Animal Kollective; a local group of sound engineers/ crew that undertakes a lot of projects with local bands for various shows and EP launches. He was also briefly the band tech for local musican Gentle Bones and Sam Rui before taking a hiatus to concentrate on finishing his studies.

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TGIF Project is a cross collaboration project between Singapore Chinese Cultural Centre and Cross Ratio Entertainment. TGIF is a bi-monthly event staged at the concourse of SCCC's venue and local artists from the Chinese Music industry are brought to entertain the residents and volunteers of local community homes and community centres