Grand Opening — Tallinn

An opening attracts attention you did not ask for. A journalist films the ribbon cut on a phone. Seventy guests who do not know the room arrive at once. The investor who funded the place is watching, and the thing most likely to go wrong is sound — a microphone that feeds back during the speech, music too loud for conversation afterward, or a room that looked perfect empty and turns into an echo chamber the moment it fills.

We rig for the room after people are in it. Test the mic gain against crowd noise, not silence. Know which surfaces throw sound and which swallow it. A Tallinn opening runs tight — the window between setup and arrival is short, and there is no second take on the moment the doors open.