🎪Beats, Chords & Chemistry: How We Closed the Year on a High Note with Beckman Coulter

When you hear “Beckman Coulter,” your mind might go straight to precision, diagnostics, and scientific excellence. But what happens when a global healthcare brand lets its hair down and ends the year with a festival-themed celebration? You get Beats and Chords — a year-end event that blended science and soul, curated and brought to life by The Source Solutions.

🎶 The Theme: A Play on More Than Just Music

The name Beats and Chords was more than a musical nod — it was a clever and subtle tribute to the client itself: B & C for Beckman Coulter. But beyond the wordplay, it spoke to the rhythm of teamwork and the harmony that drives their business forward.

Inspired by outdoor music festivals, we conceptualised an immersive year-end experience that was vibrant, celebratory, and intentionally crafted to create connection, fun, and a well-deserved moment of exhale.

🏞️ The Venue: Hennops Country Venue, Centurion

Tucked between rivers and rolling countryside, Hennops Country Venue was the perfect backdrop for this one-of-a-kind celebration. With its natural beauty and open space, it set the stage (literally) for a day of relaxed sophistication and high-energy fun.

🌮🎧🎤 The Festival Experience

From the moment guests arrived, it was clear this wasn’t your average corporate year-end. The festival included:

• Food trucks dishing out gourmet eats and street-food favourites

• A karaoke lounge for brave vocalists to belt out their favourites

• Face painting by the incredibly talented Amie White, adding sparkle, neon, and festival flair

• And of course, the sonic backbone of the entire event: DJ QD Hutch (aka Quaid Hutchinson), whose setlist kept the dance floor full and the energy soaring

  
  

As a long-time friend of The Source Solutions, DJ QD Hutch has become part of our event family — a trusted vibe curator who knows exactly how to get guests moving (and singing into the mic like they're headlining Coachella).

✨ Real Moments, Genuine Connections

It’s easy to get lost in the aesthetics of events like this — and yes, there were string lights, custom signage, and festival-worthy décor touches throughout. But what made Beats and Chords truly special was the atmosphere of realness.

Laughter around picnic benches. Casual conversations under festoon lights. Teams who spend their days solving some of the world’s biggest medical challenges getting the chance to simply be together — to celebrate, sing, and share space.

🎤 The Source Solutions Touch

At The Source, we don’t just plan events — we build experiences that reflect the essence of a brand. With Beckman Coulter, that meant balancing their prestige and polish with a celebration that felt warm, human, and joyfully off-beat.

From the first moodboard to the last track of the night, we were there — designing, directing, and dancing (a little) alongside our clients and partners.

🧡 In Closing

Beats and Chords was the perfect crescendo to a year of impact. A celebration of rhythm, of relationships, and of the brilliant people behind Beckman Coulter’s success. We’re honoured to have been part of it.

Here’s to more harmony — and to always finding the beat that moves us.