Making complicated rooms feel inevitable.

SPRK plans and produces live events across consultation, audio, video, lighting, photography, and the small decisions nobody notices unless they go wrong.

Rig, screen, stage, and control position in an event room before doors — the visible evidence that “we’ll figure it out” has become an actual plan. — PhotographPhotograph taken on the job. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

The question

I love the moment when an empty room begins to acquire intention: screens wake up, lights find their angles, sound settles into place, and a pile of equipment becomes an experience. SPRK grew out of wanting that transformation to feel considered from both sides of the curtain — precise backstage, alive in the room.

A few details worth noticing

Calm is part of the deliverable; what it feels like backstage shapes what becomes possible out front. The system has to survive reality, because beautiful plans still meet doors, weather, late files, power, people, and time. And production is creative work — a technical decision can change the emotional temperature of an entire room.

What the work includes

Event consultation and production planning
Audio and visual production
Lighting design
Photography and videography
Post-event media
Show-floor tools and production systems

Where it is now

Operating, learning, and becoming more itself with every room.

An operating Phoenix production company, a growing technical system, a body of live work, and several tools born from standing in real rooms on real show days.

A few more things worth seeing

The lighting design page, headed Change the room before anyone says a word, over a photograph of a lit set. — On screenContains client and venue imagery from SPRK’s own site; specific photographs need confirmation before wider use.Screen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

The stories page, headed Proof is in the performance, with photographs from delivered events. — On screenContains client and venue imagery from SPRK’s own site; specific photographs need confirmation before wider use.Screen capture of the running software. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

Haze making the light geometry visible — the audience sees atmosphere, the production team sees angles, timing, fixtures, power, and a lot of cable. — PhotographPhotograph taken on the job. Corey D.M. Johnson. Unmodified beyond resampling: no crop, no colour grade, no compositing.

Rights

Photography by Corey D.M. Johnson. Named collaborators, photographers, venues, and clients are added only when cleared for this specific presentation.

Related work

This idea didn’t stay in its lane.

SPRKplug →Sonaurelis →Photography →