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The Sound Engineer operates sound reproduction, recording, and related equipment in the Patricia Valian Reser Center for the Creative Arts (PRAx). Optimal artistic effect and nuance are paramount, and the sound engineer has significant overall responsibility for the audience and artist experience in a high-end performing arts center that presents 150+ live events per year in genres ranging from jazz and folk (with a strongly global component) to classical, new music, talk/lecture, chorale, theatre, and others. While live-audio configuration and concert sound mixing are central to the role and represent the highest-level artistic qualification, the Sound Engineer also configures, accomplishes, and/or manages recording, AV setups for events outside of the concert venue, and, on occasion,