Characters and Animation Demo
Audio Demos
Here’s Bill Kates’s latest voice demo reel, featuring pieces heard in movie trailers, television commercials, films, on CBS radio, Comedy Central, in Hasbro Games, on Sirius XM Radio, in SONY Records productions and many others. For VO bookings, please contact Brandie Ilsen at brandie@aperture-talent.com
Classic Commercial Voiceover
Audio Demos
A variety of approaches Bill has applied on various radio and TV commercial soundtracks.
Sirius XM Stuff
Audio Demos
A highly varietal compilation of imaging and character voices, most of which as broadcast during the original SoundPup era of XM Satellite Radio Comedy, 60’s on 6 and “Weirdness” channel production (2001-2008).
K-Rock Radio Imaging/ Production (1996)
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This reel is posted here mainly to show off more SoundPup production and idea “chops”; imaging from the point in 1996 when New York’s K-Rock (CBS) transitioned from classic rock to “new” music. Bill’s own voice predominates, but is augmented in spots by various people from the K-Rock offices, studios and nearby streets, and a few tv and movie samples.
Yoko Ono: The Sun Is Down (Remix)
Audio Demos
Bill Kates’s award- winning remix of Yoko Ono’s 2010 song. Yoko selected this as the #1 entry on the winner’s page for the contest. All voices other than Yoko’s here are Bill’s, in addition to the funky Organic Pop Production, featuring real Sounds O’ Nature.
Audiobook/ Narration/ Radio Theater: A Nanotale.
Audio Demos
An audiobook/ radio theatre adaptation of a story by Ziv Navoth, from his continuing series of “Nanotales, this one entitled “By The Time You Read This”. Bill plays all the male characters, as well as the two children. The mother and Nellie are played by actress Christa Merrick.
Bill Kates- Narration, Documentaries
Audio Demos
This demo shows Bill’s serious, narrative, natural yet professional side, good for documentaries, audio books, and any kind of serious presentation.
Bill Kates: The Spirit of Radio
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This demo is Bill’s radio work in a nutshell, perhaps with the emphasis on “nut”.
Audiobook/ Narration Demo
Audio Demos
An excerpt from the vintage cyberpunk novella “I Was Just Dead”, by Edo Segal, which Bill Kates adapated, voiced, and produced in late 2009. Bill plays all three parts as well as the narrator.
WBGO (PRI/ NPR Affiliate)
Audio Demos
Based on Miles Davis’s “All Blues”, this is a generic promo Bill sang and produced for Jazz Powerhouse WBGO in Newark, New Jersey, which ran for years.