Music selected with the room in mind.

Before a set becomes a sequence of tracks, it is a conversation about the people in the room. Arrival, attention, movement and the ending give the music a useful shape.

Begin with the gathering.

An intimate dinner, a welcome reception and a late celebration ask different things of sound. Describe what people are doing, rather than trying to choose every track before the room is understood.

Useful references show feeling and proportion. Equally useful are boundaries: moments to leave quiet, material to avoid and how speech will share the space.

Make the changes legible.

A good event arc leaves room for transitions. Talk about when the energy should settle, when it can lift and who will signal a change in the programme.

Venue information and the actual technical arrangement need their own conversation. Clear expectations are more useful than assuming every room can work in the same way.

Leave with a shared brief.

Record the occasion, sequence, references and unanswered practical questions together. That note becomes the starting point for a performer’s response.

This design shows the approach and tools without inventing a named performer biography, past clients or supplied recordings.

Plan the shape of the set