Graham McKenzie (Hon DUniv), Artistic Director of Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (hcmf//), considers how more diverse, inclusive and sustainable approaches to sound and music curation leads to a higher artistic quality. The outdated argument that considerations of inclusivity and equality pose a risk to quality will be challenged, showing that 'mono - cultural, gendered, social’ curation can only lead to artistic tedium, predictability and stagnation