Welcome to the Jungle: ‘Sound Is Everything’

Award winning sound designers Dom Dew and Chris Southwell started out over twenty years ago, running around Soho in what they call the ‘heyday’ of advertising. A lot has changed since the days of £2 pints, CD burning, and sprinting across town to hand-deliver tapes on time. In this conversation, we trace through the past few decades, speaking about the highlights and some of the lowlights. 

Here’s what you can expect:

A lost Welsh accent is momentarily found again, some of the strangest things they’ve ever been asked to do, and what it’s like to manage the interests of various stakeholders in a tight studio. We’ll explore what it’s been like to witness an industry morphing from analogue to digital, the explosion of audio, and why you should never meet your heroes. 

Oh, and how they’ve found themselves fisting a pot of yoghurt and squelching olive oil in marigolds…