When asked how the team could put a spectacle together with no priors, Tosar shared, “It isn’t my first experience being involved in event curation and production plus a lot of what people saw at Ardour came from years of learning and understanding what makes an experience feel intentional from start to finish.” 

There was evidence in the sum and the minutia. The music had coursed from minds to limbs and back, bodies became hot and heavy even in the air-conditioned hall. People hugged, stalked corners while smoking cigarettes and sipping drinks, smiles beamed and above it all hung the glinting disco ball, now and for the foreseeable future signaling Ardour. 

After Tosar’s time, we segued into a ground-shifting set from Earthsurfing. Her varied selections stood out as they blended with each other and the night approached its crescendo. Whoops could be heard at intervals from the hundreds of people that gyrated in the space. Yosa took over with a barrage of hard-hitting tracks that had many out of breath as feet began to ache with no room for rest because Partyboy’s set was next. The room had dissolved and all its parts were now connected through rapid sound waves, just as intended. Tosar says…