Making room
Find the seed
Start with a gesture small enough to recognize. Decide what must stay intact when its surroundings change.
For the music you are makingA folio. A sequence. A return.
SHAPE THE
EVENING.
One small phrase can open a room.
Keep the idea, find its answer, and give it a place in your set.
Begin with a relationshipA phrase.
A phrase.
An answer.
A little space.
Setlark turns musical starting points into a working sequence. Follow an original making score, write a cue of your own, then arrange the evening around the choices that matter to you.
Keep an edition before trying a different order. Let rehearsal observations tell you what to return to.
A small working exampleThe order changes
The order changes
the whole evening.
Move a cue and watch the intended energy shape change. In the app, each cue also keeps its duration, transition and playing notes.
An evening in a small room 9:00 planned
This website example stays in this page; it does not save an app set.
Open the idea folioSomething specific
Something specific
to play with.
A repeating figure. A borrowed detail. A final silence. Each score follows its own musical constraint through a set of making phases.
Making room
Change the frame
Try a different voice, a wider space or a missing layer. Keep one relationship clear while another moves.
Making room
Choose the landing
Decide how the last gesture leaves the room. A clean stop and a gradual reduction tell different stories.
Keep the first thoughtThen try
Then try
another way.
Save a named edition of your set. Open a copy, alter the pace of its energy or move a cue, and compare the real sequence beside the version you kept.
A version is a place to return to, so an experiment does not have to erase the first idea.
The rehearsal lecternPlay it.
Play it.
Notice it.
Keep the thought.
Move through your cue cards at your own pace. Start the clock when you want to measure a passage, pause it when you stop, and attach the observation to that cue.
Your rehearsal journal keeps the measured pass beside its original plan. Cues you did not time remain clearly marked.
A set that belongs to youFrom a loose idea
From a loose idea
to a living folio.
Give the set a purpose
Name the kind of evening you want to shape. Add a target duration and see how much space your sequence uses.
Keep the useful detail
Phase annotations, cue notes and rehearsal observations live beside the object that gave them meaning.
Carry the sequence
Export a readable text setlist through Android’s file picker when you want a copy outside the app.
