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Emily Platt, the box office manager of the Fox Tucson Theater at 17 Congress Street, wrote on the sign that there was an advertisement for cooking in the theater. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Fox Tucson Theater has been closed.

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Fox Tucson Theater at 17 W Capitol Street in Tucson, Arizona has been closed. December 16, 2020.

When the COVID-19 cloud rises and is blocked for a long time

Reopening to audiences and artists, Executive Director Bonnie Schock believes that in the nearly 1,200-seat historical theater, her staff and audience will be full of emotions.

Shock, who led Fox through the flu pandemic, said: "It feels very hard to get back there in a few days." "It will be an extraordinary emotional release to reach this point, and I think it is also correct for the audience."

But a few months will not pass that day. Shaw, who took over Fox a few days before the city and state officials ordered the company to shut down, said she expects Fox to return to live concerts before the end of summer or early fall.

Glenn Grabski, executive director of the Tucson Convention Center, stands by the box office at 260 Church Street. The conference center is undergoing renovation when it is closed.

Glenn Grabski, Executive Director

Said it might even be later than that.

He said: "I think most of the big movers are focusing on the fall, maybe the end of the fall, the end of the third quarter or the beginning of the fourth quarter." "I think some of our entry prices reflect this."

All seats in the Tucson Concert Hall at 260 Church Street will be replaced as part of the renovation of the music venue.

With the launch of the first COVID vaccine last week, venue operators in Tucson are finally optimistic about seeing the performance on stage and the fans sitting in their seats. Since the shutdown in March, most areas have been dark. When the state government lifted the closure order in May and allowed companies to reopen with limited production capacity, most concert venues in the city kept their lights off. Most people say that limiting the capacity to 25% is not feasible for the venue to break even.

"If you think about it in this way, we may be one of the first industries to close, and we will be the last to reopen," said Kip Volpe, president of the industry.

. "Finally died."

The shutdown has severely damaged live entertainment venues, such as

, The company had to fire all salaried employees including long-term executive director Curtis McCrary in September. Volpe has taken over daily operations, and the foundation has contracted out work that the volunteer committee could not complete. The non-profit theater located at 318 E. Congress St. relies on COVID relief funds and its donors to make ends meet.

In April, this historic downtown theater launched the "Fantasy Concert Lineup" fundraising event, allowing donors to create their own Final Fantasy concert lineup and advertise on Rialto's marquee. Since then, this effort has evolved into The Marquee Project, a collaboration with the KXCI community radio station, allowing you to donate $500, post the concert lineup or special messages on the subtitles for five days, and then broadcast it on KXCI Out.

The Rialto Theatre at 318 Congress Street was closed for several months due to the coronavirus pandemic. In September, the theater fired all paid staff.

Rialto communications coordinator Lara Ruggles said: "That must be something that helps us pay for it," he added, adding that Rialto also received $18,000 from Jim Click.

lottery. According to the organizers, the sweepstakes raised more than $1 million and benefited 294 charities in Tucson and Southern Arizona.

Last week, the Rialto Foundation learned that the city’s "

Fund by

. The program provides a grant of up to $50,000 for the venue; the award amount takes into account the funds received by the venue from the federal government-funded early urban CARES grant.

Xiaoke said that the Fox Tucson Theatre at 17 W. Congress St. also received a $40,000 award from the latest funding program.

The stadium hopes that the money will help them keep the lights on for longer.

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It is forbidden to hold 50 or more gatherings on March 17, and a large number of artists across the city quit concerts. Texas singer and lyricist

He was the first person to unplug during the Rialto March 10 performance on March 21st.

In consideration of Fox's performance on March 29, the company gave in due to concerns about isolation after traveling from India. In the following days,

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After the venues (Tucson Music Hall and Centennial Hall) closed, everyone cancelled the rest of their season.

On the day Romero banned large gatherings, the venue led by the Fox Tucson Theater and Rialto was suspended. The plan had been suspended for three weeks, but the three weeks turned into several months. The only downtown venue to reopen is the Congress Hotel, which moved live performances to an outdoor plaza stage on October 1st, creating a social venue with disinfection stations and providing three weekly events for a limited audience Concert Series: Tucker Tuesday and

, Soul Food on Wednesday and Blues&BBQ on Sunday afternoon, all programs are created by local artists.

Canyon Currents is part of the Taco Tuesdays band, and the outdoor activities in the Rhythm & Roots series that began in October are held at Hotel Congress. The series was recently discontinued.

"We are very satisfied with their passing, and we are very satisfied with our COVID agreement," said David Slutes, Director of Entertainment at the Hotel Congress. "We think we are doing well, people are enjoying it and feeling safe."

But as the COVID numbers in Pima County started to rise again in December, Taco's Tuesday series has been discontinued. Slutes said that despite the recent cold weather, Wednesday and Sunday events are still taking place despite the decline in attendance.

People are excited to hear live music. Some people say they are scared, but once they experience it, they feel safe. "Susan Holden said she organized concerts for the long-running Rhythm & Roots series of concerts founded by her late husband in 1998. "Some of these bands have not performed for eight months. Some people didn't even rehearse, so when they jumped onto the stage, they were very excited. "

But Holden said she is concerned about the recent surge in COVID cases. For safety reasons, when the couple of Catherine Burns and Ryan Alfred unplugged the sweet ghost performance on December 8, Horton decided to also postpone the remaining December concerts.

"This is difficult (hard. You want people to come out. You want the band to make a living, but if people are uncomfortable, you don't want them to come out." Horton said. "This is a good line."

She added: "I hope maybe we will come back to live broadcast in February, but it really depends on the advice of Pima County and health professionals."

At the same time, Holden said that she is considering the proposal of hosting live concerts through ethnic behavior.

Baby steps on the hill

Several venues in Tucson resumed live music performances this fall, including

, Is a small university site located at 136 Park Avenue in the North District of the University of Arizona, and

, Located at 5851 E. Speedway, which can accommodate 1,200 people, formerly Club XS.

Rock reopened some events in October, attracting a lot of spectators, well below the COVID agreement limit of 50 out of the venue’s 240 seats. The history of The Rock officials can be traced back to the early 1970s when it was The Stumble Inn. They stated that it has been an arduous effort to occupy 20 to 30 seats in most shows.

The owner, Kent Van Stelle, said he believes that part of the reason is that people are still unwilling to return to normal life. When we reached the other end of the pandemic, he thought his residence would be significantly different from many small places in the area.

He said: "It will definitely not be the same." "We don't know where this is going."

When he decided to resume live events after Thanksgiving, Encore owner Randy James had to reconfigure the Sponge Club as a sitting venue. In his first performance with Phoenix rock singers Metalhead and Drop D, he set up 250 social distancing seats and about 200 people attended.

He said: "I think we are all turned away at the moment."

When Tucson recently imposed a curfew at 10 pm, James suspended until the end of this month, when he will host Tucson native Pablo Francisco on December 27, which is his first hometown comedy performance in 20 years. James believes that even if the curfew still exists, the performance will end before the curfew, but his New Year’s Eve activities with Tucson worship bands "Scorpions" and "Jack" (AC/DC) may be a bit tricky; these two shows The performances start at 8 pm, which may be far past the 10 pm deadline.

Juliana Murphy (left), Stuart Oliver and Luci Figueroa perform at a Thursday night live singer concert at Monterey Court The first three individual performances.

Optimistic house

Located at 505 W. Miracle Mile was one of the first venues to resume live performances. After closing since March, the first venue was held on August 18. Owner Kelly McLear (Kelly McLear) recalled that the attendance on Tuesday night was encouraging, and the latter co-operated the restaurant/venue with her husband, Greg Haver.

The outdoor plaza was quickly booked for brunch service every Saturday night and Sunday morning. McCearly said, but it is not easy. The biggest obstacle is finding bands and artists to play.

McClier said: "One of the reasons we postponed to August is that it is difficult to find performers who are willing to play."

This problem also hinders

Location: E. Speedway 4915, the restaurant resumed live entertainment on its spacious terrace in mid-October.

"Due to "panic", the only locals who will compete here are

And I have my own family band (Timeframe), which will perform two nights a week. "John Bujak and his business partner Judith Bard have owned the venue for nearly four years. "We welcome any local behavior to participate. "

On most nights, Monterey Court fills almost every of its 125 terrace seats, which is half of the non-COVID capacity, and both guests and artists have followed the agreement, which includes setting up mandatory masks and disinfection stations throughout the terrace .

"We don't have any chance," McClier said. "If you want, we even impose severe penalties on people who don't want to wear masks. Not only will they be asked to leave, but they will also be asked to leave permanently and never return."

So far, they have not imposed the penalty.

When he reopened for the first time, Bujak brought a few Phoenix tribute bands and did not charge an entrance fee "just to restore and replay the live music." The patio did not reach its full capacity of 100 for COVID, but the response was positive.

Bujak said: "It can be done with a little money, which is why he and Bard turned their attention to local bands.

Bujak and McLear said that with the recent surge in the number of COVID cases, curfews in cities and counties and lower night temperatures, finding bands has become more challenging.

"We are ready to go. We comply. We are actually here to heal, waiting for the band and customers to walk through the door."

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Bujak believes that artists and listeners will appreciate live music even more before the arrival of spring. But he said that his music friends are not optimistic, and even if the vaccine was introduced last week, the music will not recover soon.

"Some people say that by the end of 2021, we should get rid of the predicament and go alone, but I also have friends in the live music industry, and they are not optimistic. They say that full-scale development will resume in 2022 and 2024." "I hope that by 2021 In March 2015 (one year anniversary), we will at least see some people return to the stage and return to live music."

Bujak is so optimistic that he has planned a celebration, which he calls the "Parade Festival" in Reed Park on March 20. All he was looking forward to was getting city permits.

Schock of Fox Tucson Theatre wants to know what the post-COVID entertainment world looks like. Will the audience be reluctant? Will the artist?

She said: "Everything is uncertain." "What did the first few games back to the room look like? I think people are thirsty and it's nice to be together again to celebrate what we missed."

For Fox, the first concert after the pandemic will feel like a historic evening, similar to the 2006 New Year’s Eve event, which reopened the theater after being closed for 25 years. The reopening was after six years of refurbishment that cost millions of dollars, and the theater was restored to its 1930s glory.

Xiaoke said: "In a sense, no matter what happens, it will give people a sense of grand opening." "And I will cry because I am a cryer."

TCC's Grabski said that he is encouraged by recent research that shows that viewers are eager to return to live entertainment venues.

He said: “People’s requests to go out to participate in all kinds of activities, from live music to movies and even sports shows, are suppressed.” “Are you worried, will people come back? They will feel comfortable coming back soon. The overall feeling is It will rebound, and it will rebound seriously. It's just a matter of time."

Grabski said that the Tucson Road Runners hockey team may return to the ice in February, and he hopes they can start hosting some events after July 1.

Contact reporter Cathalena E. Burch

. On Twitter: @Starburch

, 17 W. Congress St., foxtucson.com; 547-3040.

: Israeli singer and lyricist David Broza will broadcast a live concert at the City Winery on Wednesday, December 23 at 6 pm to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his "Not Exactly Christmas Show" . 

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:access

Rialto Theater, 318 Congress Street, 

740-1000.

A live broadcast of the Alabama Blind Boys Christmas show on Wednesday, December 23 at 7 pm; $18 to

: You can donate to non-profit theaters or purchase Rialto equipment and gifts through the following channels

The Congress Hotel, 311 Capitol Street

; 622-8848.

: After the holidays, live music on the Soul Food Festival every Wednesday and the Blues&BBQ Exhibition Plaza on Sundays will resume. Limited audience and COVID-19 agreements, including social distancing and mandatory masks. 

Home to the Tucson Convention Center, Tucson Arena, Tucson Concert Hall and Rio Rich Theater (250 S. Church Ave.),

; 791-4101.

There are no upcoming events. 

Desert Diamond Casino at 1100 Pima Mine Road

 294-7777.

: There are no upcoming events. 

Sun City Casino AVA, 5655 Valencia Road,

; 1-855-765-7829.

 There are no upcoming events; the casino will be closed before January 2, 2021.

, 5851 E. Speedway, facebook.com/encoretucson; 885-3030.

: Comedian Pablo Francisco (Pablo Francisco), Sunday, December 27 at 7 p.m.; ticket prices start at $12.50

• At 7pm on December 31st, New Year’s Eve and the Scorpions paid tribute to the band Animal Magnetism and AC/DC to pay tribute to The Jack. Tickets start at $14.50

Robert Mason, who won the reputation of Warrant with Drop D at 7pm on January 16th (Saturday); the lowest fare is $8,

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• On January 23, Saturday, 8 pm, the ultimate tribute to Wildside, who pays tribute to love, hatred, sex, pain, and Gosmark;

Start early for $6.

, Park North Avenue 136, rocktucson.com; 629-9211 

: Mike Gaube’s Headbangers will perform "Dedwinter Fest 2021" at Dedwin, Fatal Malady, Fire Glass, The Ruin, Not My Master and Nowhere Man at 5pm on January 23. Tickets are $10 in advance through Rocktucson.com, on site Charged $13. Limited availability under the COVID-19 agreement.

, 4915 E Speedway, houseofbards.com; 327-2011.

The family band OnesAll, on January 15, 2021, will hold an open microphone night every week-music performance on Monday and comedy performance on Tuesday.

Invite local bands to perform in the venue. For more information, please contact Judith Bard. 

505 W. Miracle Mile, montereycourtaz.com; 207-2429. It is strongly recommended that you book through the website, and you can also buy tickets on the website. 

: Saturday, December 26, 6 pm, zero mileage is empty; PD Ronstadt & Company, Sunday, December 27, 6 pm ($10); Tuesday, December 29, 6 pm, Steff Kayser and Eric Schaffer ; December 30, Wednesday, 6 pm, Christy Lynn Band (Christy Lynn Band); December 31, 7 pm, celebrate New Year’s Eve with Funk House ($20 including champagne toast at 10 pm , $50 champagne and a four-course dinner). 

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Cathalena has been singing music for the "Star" for the past 20 years. She graduated from Arizona State University and worked for the Sedona Red Rock News in the Sedona Red Rock News in Niagara Falls, New York. . And "USA Today".

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At the David Nail concert at the Thrasher-Horne Center in Orange Park last month, a woman walked away from the lobby bar and put down her mask to take a mouthful.

Within a second, the security guard told her that she must wear a mask at all times in the hall.

"Then how should I drink it?" she asked. "I just bought a cup. Oh my goodness."

Welcome to live music in the age of COVID-19. The crowd is crowded, the social distance is far away, you must wear masks, the temperature check at the door, the non-contact preferential pipeline and the drinks on your seat are new habits, because the promoters and venues are trying to find music without harming anyone The way it will. 

Numa Saisselin, president of the Florida Theater, said: "I really look forward to greeting people in the lobby again and then telling them to leave me and sit down."

Since the virus outbreak in mid-March, live concerts, plays, dance recitals and symphony performances, and almost all forms of entertainment that require people to gather in large numbers have almost disappeared. The last big show in the area was in March

Military appreciation day ceremony. 

Catherine said that since the Zeppelin tribute band Get the Led Out performed at the Florida Theater on March 12, the Florida Theater has not hosted a live performance.

Since then, hundreds of shows have been cancelled or postponed, and some move dates are three to four times. A pair of "drive-in" programs by

In October, the TIAA Bank Field parking lot attracted a large crowd, but Nail's performance (attracting less than 300 fans to the 1,750-seat venue) was the first indoor popular concert since March.

The Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra is one of the few orchestras in the United States.

, Even if these audiences are much smaller than in the past.

Anna Zirbel, the executive director of Thrasher-Horne Center, said from the stage when introducing Nail: "For any theater, this is really not a long-term sustainable business model." 

A few minutes later, Nail himself responded to this view. He told the audience: "I don't know how many shows we have this year, but there are less than 10." "That's not enough."

The Florida Theater held a series of concerts this week that will test whether fans, musicians and venues are ready to resume business. Swing band Big Bad Voodoo Daddy will perform on holiday on Wednesday, rockers .38 Special will hold a homecoming concert on Thursday; cartoonist Brian Reagan will be there on Friday; tribute to classic record company Live playing Fleetwood Mac’s "Rumours" on Saturday; country singer Travis Tritt performed on Sunday. 

Kurt Sodergren, who plays for the Big Bad Voodoo Daddy drum band, said his band has only participated in a few charity admissions performances since March. They are eager to get back on the road, but only if they are safe. The Florida Theater Concert will be the second performance of six nights in Florida.

Sodergren said that the band’s managers have received COVID-19 compliance training and will ensure that they stay as safe as possible during the tour. The band will be masked backstage and in the car at the show, but not on the stage.

He said: "Obviously, I am nervous." "We will all abide by the rules absolutely. I hope we can get some kind of roadmap from it for future use." 

Catherine said that despite travel restrictions and the virus surge, everyone is eager to return to live concerts. He said: "These behaviors want to work. Everyone wants to get back to work." "The other good news is that the audience wants to go out."

But no one wants to have another outbreak or spread the virus to one person, so fans can expect many precautions to make it as safe as possible. Cesslin said: "The virus has had a huge impact." "Even if it is safe, people should be cautious."

The fan can expect to check the temperature at the door, and if it fails, it will be sent home. There is no opening ceremony, no break. The Florida Theater Bar will be closed during the performance. Only half of the seats will be sold, and people will sit in the "pods" with two empty seats left, right, front and left rear.

Catherine said that fans will also be required to wear face masks at all times, including in the seats, and staff will not fool around with people who choose not to comply. 

He said: "We will do our best to be as polite and friendly as possible, and hope that people will cooperate." "If they don't, they will be asked to leave."

He said that he had heard some complaints about the mask policy, but most importantly, there was no performance at all. 

He said: "The virus is here and it won't go away anytime soon." "We all have to find a way to live. We want people to realize that it's a choice. We don't like the idea of ​​driving someone out."

The upcoming performance will be the first performance since all seats in the Florida Theater were replaced and a new sound system was installed as part of a long-term planned renovation project.

The city owns venues, but the independent Florida Theater Performing Arts Center Co., Ltd. is responsible for operations. He said: "I never thought we would live so long." "We let this place use its strength and initiative. All this is on our shoulders." 

Since the performance of John Fogerty in February, the St. Augustine Amphitheater has not yet held a full performance. The general manager of St. John's County, Gabriel Pellicer, who owns the venue, said they plan to hold two JJ Gray & Mofro performances from January 15th to 16th to reopen.

Pellicer said that this may be a role model for the future, at least until the COVID crisis passes, the behavior will broadcast multiple programs to people with limited ability. St. Johns County also has the Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, which will take Raul Malo to two performances on January 9.

The performance capacity of Grey's amphitheater is limited to 36% of the venue's capacity, or approximately 1,700 seats. Gray, who lives in the Jacksonville area, used to show sold-out performances in the amphitheater. If allowed, it is likely to be shown on the venue of this theater. 

Pellicer said that if performances want to make money close to their income from one performance, then participating in multiple performances in order to safely accommodate a large number of fans seems to be the most economical option. The venue must pay the staff for each performance, but the artist only needs to set up and remove the equipment once.

In small venues like Ponte Vedra Concert Hall, the seats are reduced to 114, and artists can play multiple shows in one day. He said that in the amphitheater, there are many crowds, which is not practical.

During the closure, the amphitheater also installed all new seats. Pellicer explained that the new seat can be locked in an upright position, allowing employees to create and strengthen social distancing. Seats are sold in "pods", usually in the form of two, three or four tickets, and only those seats can be unlocked.

Pellicer said that they will comply with all CDC guidelines on COVID-19 safety, which means that fans must be "moved masked" (however, in most cases, they will be able to remove the mask on the seat), And the staff will perform disinfection. Common areas are frequent.

Pellicer said that upside will be shorter and fans will have more elbow room. 

He said that you will not have a person sitting in front of you, so the feeling will spread. It will look good from the stage and feel good from the crowd. Just wear a sports mask. " 

When the Jacksonville Icemans hockey team played their home game for the first time, the VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena welcomed the crowd on Saturday for the first time in months. ASM Global Jacksonville runs the arena together with the Times Alliance Center, Ritz Theatre and Prime Osborn Convention Center. The company has launched a new JaxEvents app, which The program will allow fans to order and store digital tickets, pre-purchase parking spaces and order food and beverages on stage. The JaxEvents application can be downloaded from the App Store or Google Play.

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One night, when one of our friend FaceTimed came in, three of my roommates and I were scattered in our common area. I wanted to hear his behavior. My roommate put him on the speakerphone, but when his voice shook, the turbidity angered me. The voice over the phone did not have the normal shape or elasticity of his voice. I feel deprived. We accept the weird failures brought about by technology; I would never expect real-time video to overcome the inherent cumbersomeness of converting three dimensions into two. However, since our voices are invisible-just the air-there are things in me that think they should spread better.

A few days later, I heard a roommate talking to his colleague in a Google Hangouts call, and I wanted to know the sound of the video chat again-whenever we filter through video conferencing technology, we all hear our own nasal voice. This is the voice of our Internet interlocutors all over the world or today in towns. It became

. What causes its special traits?

To find out, I arranged a FaceTime call with Chris Kyriakakis, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Southern California and chief audio scientist at speaker company Syng. Kyriakakis is an expert in recreating and perceiving sound; he worked in a multi-university research team to digitally replicate the sounds of churches in the Byzantine period. When discussing the sublime topic of video chat voice, he explained that in order to maximize the clarity of the sound sent by the computer, I should pay attention to two factors. One is the distance between my mouth and the microphone. He said that if we meet in person and I am six feet away from him, his brain will focus on my voice and filter out any background noise. But the microphone cannot hear the human ear, and it cannot be heard. They just choose the loudest voice, and when the speaker is far away, other voices will compete with that person's voice. The key is to shorten the distance. Kyriakakis did this with headphones and microphone. As a result, the sound he transmitted was a little warmer than mine, because I was using the microphone of my laptop and didn't want to crowd the camera, so I could only sit in a chair.

The second factor is the reverberation of the room, which depends on the physical volume of the room and the absorbency of its content. Your voice will never be just your voice; even in a face-to-face conversation, a person’s words have the characteristics of a person’s environment. Kyriakakis explained: "When you talk to me, the sounds coming into my ears come from thousands of other directions, because they bounce around the room." "Our brains will constantly analyze to understand, okay , We are between my son's bedroom and the squash court." He said that if there are a lot of reflective surfaces in the room, it will make me sound like I am taking a shower. Carpets, curtains, blankets, sweatshirts (anything plush) help reduce my voice shaking around and improve the fidelity of the transmission. Even a human water container can absorb reverberation. Kyriakakis said this is why certain orchestras offer cheap rehearsal tickets: by filling the entire room, they can give musicians a more accurate understanding of the opening night auditorium.

Although the upholstered seats in many concert halls are sufficiently absorbent, they are usually designed with the assumption that the audience will participate, so that the sound difference between the whole house and the performance with few performances can be ignored Excluding.

However, living in a padded room at home or enclosing your roommates in a circle to improve the voice of Skype dating may not be ideal. Instead, Kyriakakis transformed his living room into an environment by using perforated multi-layer siding (similar to the skyscraper group seen from above). In this environment, Audio can play the best effect. They absorb and diffuse sound accurately. He said: "I have a wife of a man of insight. I can put things on art walls, but it has the characteristics of killing all reflections and reverberation." I would love to see this arrangement for myself; unfortunately On the day of our FaceTimed, Kyriakakis' dog and dishwasher asked him to find a quiet place in his son's room. But it turns out that this may make our dialogue sound more realistic. The size and reverberation of his son's room may be closer to the bedroom I called. According to Kyriakakis, creating a sense of vocal intimacy online is not only clear, but similar. To maximize the feeling of being in the same room, the caller should speak in a reverb-like space.

To switch on the microphone, your voice only needs to travel a few feet (or preferably inches). A long-term and transformative journey across the Internet is still coming-a journey through constantly changing terrain. These changes may be smooth or rough due to network bandwidth. Stephen Casner, one of the early pioneers of audio and video transmission on Internet-like networks, told me that to travel, voice must be compressed and cut into small packets through a so-called codec. Each packet contains about 20 milliseconds of compressed audio-oh, ah, "s" sound. It seems that instead of sending someone a written letter, you sent them a series of sequential postcards with a single syllable. These packets will then be compressed on your conversation partner’s computer, where another codec will reproduce the sound before leaving the speaker.

Sometimes, data packets are lost. If you are playing a movie, the software can prepare for this possibility by "buffering", creating a buffer time of a few seconds in order to retransmit the missing components. The movie may not continue to play until every necessary droplet in the stream arrives. However, in order to avoid inserting awkward delays in our conversation, the real-time audio software must click with a minimum pause time to check for scattered data packets. If they do not arrive, so be it.

So, the question is how to fill the gap. Video conferencing technology uses voice codecs, and Mozilla engineer Timothy Terriberry told me that voice codecs are specifically designed to replicate human channels. (These human-centered algorithms are why playing instrumental music through video chat sounds so scary, Terriberry said.) We talked through a pure voice chat on Zoom, which sometimes uses the audio codec protocol that Terriberry helped create . If the speech codec encounters content that it thinks lacks vowels, it may read the content before and after to get clues. Then, it expands or inserts a flat tone, which is the best guess as to how the human voice will fill the space. This may lead to an effect similar to Auto-Tune, making us a temporary pain. Frictions (consonants exhaled in "fridge" and "dull") are especially challenging for voice codecs. They are shorter and less repetitive, so they are more likely to be lost. It is also difficult for computers to imitate them, which is one reason why a person's video chat voice often sounds like a short hiss or chi.

After talking with Terriberry, I started to listen to these quirks. When my two brothers and I caught up and their voices occasionally disappeared or sounded like touch robots, I admired the system's attempts. The hearing device, which was not hearing as my ears, picked up the sound, and then got lost. In order to fill the gap, the fusion of various technologies reminds people of my brother's imitation. In a sense, knowing all the hidden work makes imperfections more meaningful than frustration. The small mistakes of the software are almost like that kind of mistakes. If I make these mistakes, my brothers will laugh playfully. When they walked into my room, their video chat voice sounded more humane.

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When the bitter wind blows from the sea, the cracks in the ornate doorway of the Morecambe Winter Garden emit a creepy song, like the musical ghost that once filled the spectacular Victorian Auditorium in northwest England.

Vanessa Toulmin, chairman of the Morecambe Winter Garden Conservation Foundation, said: "This is what we have to do here. It fills the whole place with music again. This is its purpose."

The theater used to have elaborate stage equipment, but closed in 1977, and many theaters were always worried. For many years, Winter Gardens has been the first expense on the Theatre Trust’s list of risks, but a small group of skilled volunteers are now bringing this hard-hit area back to life.

When Laurence Olivier performed in

Filmed there in 1960, the theater represents the decline of the entire seaside entertainment world

The roll-out of the Lancashire resort’s glorious period is melancholic: two piers have been eroded by storms, empty waterfront plots mark the old bazaar, and the Alhambra Concert Hall is now a fishing gear shop. The Midland Hotel has survived and restored a large number of seaside decorative arts from its dereliction of duty 12 years ago. It is planned to be in the northern branch of the Eden project, which is an eco-tourism attraction in Cornwall that can accommodate the world It’s the largest indoor rain forest on the island, but the town needs its beloved winter garden to open again for performances.

The theater is the sole survivor of luxurious complex facilities such as bars, restaurants, palm-lined indoor gardens, beaches and aquariums. Entertainment venues include Miss Ada Webb reading, weaving and smoking underwater. It was designed by Mangnell and Littlewood, and the famous theater architect Frank Matcham served as a consultant. It opened in 1897 and has 2500 seats. The dazzling wedding cake is plastered and colored. The glass and Burmantofts tile nymphs and cherubs are all under the spectacular vaulted ceiling.

The building changed hands many times in the 20th century and has not been well updated and maintained. Its exquisite cream, gold and sea green color scheme is suffocated under the thick coating of Germolene pink. Although it was awarded II* status, it was empty, rotted, deprived of stalls and round seats, a large hole in the roof, and other surrounding buildings were demolished. When Laurence Olivier's famous performance was

According to John Osborne's drama filmed there in 1960, the theater represents the decline of the entire seaside entertainment world.

It could have shared the fate of the Alhambra, but the Morecambe Winter Garden Conservation Foundation now owns the building and maintains its faith. It is hosted by Toulmin, an academic and popular entertainment history expert at the University of Sheffield, whose family used to run the Winter Gardens exhibition.

Toulmin estimates that the cost of a complete restoration is between 5 million and 8 million pounds. However, due to the long history of England, the Theatre Trust and the Cultural Recovery Fund of the British Government provided emergency roofing works to survive this winter. Progress. The first floor was opened for small events and guided activities, drains were replaced, and the roof was repaired. The original seats restored from the closed Masonic Hall are being

. Malc O'Neill, a plumber on site (other useful volunteers include retired cabinetmakers, electricians and oil rig workers, who appear in court twice a year to clean the curtain walls) proud of the new locker room. "Look at that sink-running water!" he said.

Fundraising in winter is very tricky because the buildings are very cold even on days with mild weather. Crowdfunding is working with the government's Coastal Communities Fund to allocate 100,000 pounds, and the project will start using the new heating system this winter.

Toulmin said: "This is the Albert Hall in the north, and this is what we want to return to."

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