hark hires audio equipment & services for music & events. hark is owned & run by Mark Hornsby & has bases North of London & in Totnes in South Devon.

Selected work

QED Productions

hark has provided audio to QEDs pictures for many years,


The University of Sussex biannual graduation ceremony at the Brighton Centre


Dr Blighty at the Brighton Pavilion in 2017


Welcome to the Forest, Walthamstow's Opening Event for the Inaugural Borough of Culture in 2019, where Hark provided the audio system for the estimated crowd of 5000 folk per night. Chris Ekers & Chris Tanton engineered & operated the system over the 5 days of set up & shows


Flying our d&b V system flown at Walthamstow, running with array processing.

Hauser & Wirth

To complement their gallery shows Hauser & Wirth in London's Savile Row stage regular speech based events with artists & commentators. Hark has provided sound reinforcement & audio recording for these events for a number of years & continues to do so on a regular basis

Cafe OTO install

In 2019 hark continued its long relationship with Dalston's Cafe OTO by supplying a new foh sound system including d&b V & Y series to replace the E9 based system we installed when Cafe OTO opened in 2008. We also supplied new M4 stage monitors.

Benjamin Clementine

Hark has enjoyed a long working relationship with Benjamin Clementine & his sound crew, Joe Peet & Pablo Campanaro. We have supplied touring control systems, stage systems & foh PA in Europe & the UK, including a d&b J system for his acclaimed Brixton Academy show in December 2017, seen here & his most recent European tour in the summer of 2019.

Artnight

hark has supplied equipment, systems & crew for all of the UK Artnights up to 2019 in Walthamstow, continuing our long working relationship with production manager Steve Wald.

KT Tunstall
hark supplied the full audio production for KT's UK tour in Autumn 2016. Foh PA was d&b V series, Adam Bourns used a Soundcraft Vi5000 at foh & Marco Cruneri was on monitors using a Vi3000, both with UAD Realtime Ultimate racks
Shuffle Festival
hark provided audio for a single stage in 2015 & three stages in 2016. Shown here British Sea Power providing live accompaniment to "From the Sea to the Land Beyond" in 2015,
Meatopia
2019 was hark's 7th year at Meatopia. We provided audio for all of the stages at London's Tobacco dock, for DJs, bands & demonstrations
Kate Tempest
hark provided an SD10 console for Alex Gent at foh, a Vi2000 for Archie Marsh on monitors, & line & monitoring systems for Kate Tempest's UK & European dates in late 2016

We supplied control & stage infrastructure for Kate's tour in 2017 & the foh sound system for her Brixton Academy show in May 2017
Paulo Nutini
hark supplied a full production sound system for Paulo Nutini at the Newport Centre using d&b V Series. We also supplied a Digico SD10 for Sam Parker at foh & were happy to tech an Allen & Heath D:Live on loan from A&H for Tom Howat on monitors
Years & Years
hark provided the control, monitoring & stage equipment for Years & Years in the UK, Europe & the USA throughout 2015 & 2016. We also supplied a d&b J type system for foh for the UK theatre tour culminating at Brixton Academy in April 2016. Shown here is Harry Bishop with the Vi5000 at the monitor position, with Y&Y's lighty up thingamy in the background
Greenman Festival
for seven years, until a production regime change in 2014, hark provided audio for all of the stages except the main stage at Greenman as it grew from 5,000 to 15,000 folk & 6 stages. Shown here is Farout, the 2nd stage onsite, a big top with 3000 capacity, where we initially used our d&b Q system, migrating to V Series, with V & J subs in 2012
Jon Favreau introducing the UK Premier of Chef at Truman's Brewery
Hark provided 5.1 audio for the movie screening & speech reinforcement for event producers 11:55, left, centre, right were d&b T series, with d&b E8s providing surround.
Secret Cinema
hark provided the sound for Secret Cinema during its formative years, from 2008 up to & including Back to the Future, shown here, in 2014. We provided audio for the main screening with excellent intelligibility to audiences of 3000 plus folk using our d&b V Series, two smaller live music venues & the site wide distribution of the immersive sound design using a Dante network with six remote Yamaha Rio stage boxes.
Britsh Film Institute  (BFI)
hark has provided the BFI with audio services for a number of years. Pictured here is Hitchcock's Blackmail, screened at the British Museum where the final scenes in the movie were shot, with a live orchestral score composed by Neil Brand. Loudspeakers used were d&b V series.
Max Richter
hark supplied the control & stage system for Max Richter's UK tour in May 2016. Chris Ekers was the sound engineer & Production manager. The kit supplied included a Digico SD10, a TC 6000 effects system, DPA 4099s & some not shiny new Schoeps microphones.

We also stayed up all night for 2017's Sleep show for the Barbican Art Centre at Old Billingsgate, supplying & crewing the complete sound system 
Pedal Powered Bug at Truman's Brewery
In July 2016 Adam Buxton presented his BUG show at Truman's Brewery for Liptons Teas as part of their Extend the Weekend campaign. Working for event producers 11:55, hark supplied audio & video systems, both powered "off the grid" by electric pedals
Dalai Lama at the O2
hark provided the sound system for His Holiness, the Dalai Lama's visit to the O2 in Sept 2015, using our d&b J type with d&b V type as outfill hangs. Production lead & video supplier was QED, with Utopium providing lighting & rigging.
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