Characters and Animation Demo

Posted on Oct 15, 2014 in 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. Bill is a SAG/AFTRA talent. For bookings, please contact bill@soundpup.com 


Bill Kates Commercial Manh Mini

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Videos


Bill Kates Mobile Year 2011

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Videos

 
 

Bill Kates Parody Mornormalen

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Videos


Classic Commercial Voiceover

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Audio Demos

A variety of approaches Bill has applied on various radio and TV commercial soundtracks.


Sirius XM Stuff

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in 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)

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in Audio Demos

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)

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in 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.

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in 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 Christa Merrick.


Bill Kates- Narration, Documentaries

Posted on Jun 27, 2012 in 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

Posted on Jun 26, 2012 in Audio Demos

This demo is Bill’s radio work in a nutshell, perhaps with the emphasis on “nut”.


Audiobook/ Narration Demo

Posted on Jun 26, 2012 in 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. You can hear and download the full novella for free at www.iwasjustdead.com


WBGO (PRI/ NPR Affiliate) 

Posted on Jun 26, 2012 in 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.