PROFILE
ADAM CLARK
By Michael Raine
A
s a high school student in
Oakville, ON, Adam Clark found
his passion and sanctuary in his
communications technology
class. Unlike most students who
wanted to make cool looking films, Clark
spent much of his time in the editing suite
focusing on sound.
“We’d have this pretty badly shot 10
minutes [of video] and then
these amazing sound effects
and other stuff, with these
huge soundscapes behind
them,” he recalls, “and it was
because I’d stay after class and
work on it.”
But it wasn’t until years later,
as a film student at York Univer-
sity with dreams of becoming
a director, that he realized his
destiny was to be the man
behind the microphone.
Now, as the co-founder
and chief sound recordist for
location recording and post-
production company Toronto
Sound, the 27-year-old Clark is
fulfilling that destiny on the sets
of films, documentaries, and
commercials on a daily basis.
“Every decision to pick up
a boom pole and go out on a
set is a decision that has defined my life in
many aspects,” says Clark. “I treat this job
as a passion, as work, but also as a way of
living and a way of life.”
While still at York, Clark purchased his
own location recording kit and began
capturing the sound for his fellow students’
films. A business grew out of it, fittingly
called Adam Clark Sound, where he would
take