Turn the Dial in new Bose campaign

With only 2.8% of popular songs from the last decade produced by women, sound hasn’t reached its full potential.

In response, Bose is unveiling Turn the Dial, a creative campaign and content series, which calls out the gender disparities in music production and imagines a world where producers of all genders are equitably represented.

Bose knows the importance of ensuring that future generations of music producers see themselves represented, so Bose partnered with four creators whose individual stories showcase a breadth of talent in the industry, H.E.R., PinkPantheress, BLOND:ISH and WondaGurl.

The hero campaign film, directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch, calls out the massive deficit in representation and calls for change, featuring commentary from H.E.R., PinkPantheress, WondaGurl and BLOND:ISH, and music composed for the campaign by H.E.R.

For the film, Stuckwisch created bespoke environments for each of the producers, imagined work spaces, describing the diversity of contemporary music production and what an exploration of what a ‘studio’ looks like in 2023, evolved from the cliché of a long mixing desk with hundreds of dials.

On the work, Stuckwisch had this to say: “Directing these four fiercely talented producers who bring diversity, complexity, and dimension to the industry was an absolute honor. With this initiative, Bose is saying, if you can see it, you can believe it. If you can believe it, you can be it. That's a win no matter how you look at it. Representation is everything.”

The Turn the Dial campaign will run across digital and social platforms with additional assets including profile films of the four producers and product films directed by Scheme Engine’s Symone Ridgell and campaign stills by Carolina Isabel Salazar.