Voice Description

There are 3 main categories which are VERY STRONG points and which set apart this talent from many, many others:

- CONVERSATIONAL -- In a word: REAL.

AKA: guy-next-door, the friend telling you about... etc. More "key words": wry, hip, friendly, relaxed, husband, buddy, easy, natural and casual.

- TRAILER VOICE -- This would be the booming, deep "Don La Fontaine" trailer read with all the hills and valleys, "in a world"s, etc. (Note: many styles but does an AMAZING Don when needed)

Also does great work re: FAMILY FILMS, THRILLERS, DRAMA, COMEDY, KIDS FILMS, etc.

- CHARACTERS -- From fuzzy characters to evil monsters to an old Brooklyn deli owner, Ari does characters with that extra element of PASSION -- he loves his characters!

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Teenage Boy
• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male

Language(s) of Which I Am a Native Speaker:

• English - North American

I Offer my Services for these Recording Purposes

• Commercials
• Promos
• IVR, voicemail, phone systems, and on-hold messages
• Training, business presentations, sales, and web sites
• Audiobooks
• Videogames
• Documentaries
• TV shows and movies
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Others (on-camera, informercials, live announcers, spokespersons)

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

• Non-Union Jobs

• Jobs for AFTRA (US) signatories

• Jobs for SAG (US) signatories

My Union Affiliations and Memberships

• AFTRA (US)

• SAG (US)

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I will go to any designated studio in my area
• I have ISDN in my studio
• I have Phone Patch in my studio
• I can record and then deliver the audio files via Email
• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP
• I can record and then deliver the files by regular mail

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

• I can deliver edited and finished voice tracks
• I offer radio ad production services
• I have a music library and can add music to any project
• I can add special effects to any project

My Home Base

Los Angeles, California, United States

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

-- USA Neutral
-- California (pretty much US standard)
-- "Dude"
-- Chicano/"low rider" (ALA Ceech Marin of "Ceech and Chong")
-- Brooklyn/New York
-- British (good for light or strong Character - not bad but might not fool a Brit)
-- Texas/Southern - Sam Elliot, light or strong standard southern US accent

Dialects include:

California (NATIONAL US/ NEUTRAL),
Southern,
New York,
Brooklyn,
Chicano (In the manner of Cheech Marin
of "Cheech and Chong"),
Conversational,
Hip,
Wry,
John Facenda (NFL Football announcer),
Don La Fontaine (Movie Trailer voice),
Multiple personalities...

Looking for impressions? Send me a paragraph of text & I'll send you an MP3:

John Kerry
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Barney (Homer's friend from Simpsons, Mayberry's deputy & The purple guy)
Bill Clinton
Christopher Walken
Clint Eastwood
Cookie monster
Don La Fontaine (Movie Trailers & Promos)
Don Pardo
Droopy the dog
Ed Wynn
Edith Bunker (Jean Stapleton)
Ed Sullivan
George Washington...(Ok... so no one knew what he sounded like....)
Goofy
Homer Simpson (voice, "D'oh! etc..)
Jack Benny
Jack Webb
Jay Leno
John Facenda (NFL Football announcer)
Jimmy Stewart
Joe Pesci
Jonathan Harris (Dr Smith)
Kate Hepburn
Kermit the frog
Louie Armstrong (speak & sing)
Marge Simpson
Marlon Brando
Mickey Mouse
Nicholas Cage
Peter Lorre
Popeye
Quentin Tarantino
Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman)
Roger Rabbit
Ronald Reagan
Ross Perot
Russell Crowe {Matched American Accent for the airline version of “LA Confidential”}
Sam Elliot
Steve Buscemi
Sylvester Stallone
And many others...

My Voice Experience

Experience:

Aloha Airlines
American Express
Apple Computer
CSI:NY in Second Life
Four Seasons Hotels
General Motors
Hitachi
Honda
Hot Pockets
IBM
Panasonic
Pontiac
Sony
Suzuki
Teledyne Waterpik
TGI Friday's
Tonight Show W/Jay Leno
Toshiba
Toyota
Universal Pictures
Washington Mutual Bank
7-11 Stores
& Mucho More

Much experience working own studio -- MP3, WAV, AIFF and ISDN capabilities. Ari can also work locally in Los Angeles or will travel.

Experience includes conversational as well as authentic deep announce.

Categories include:

Corporate Narration
Commercials
Movie trailers
Promos
Messages-on-hold
Straight Announce (with touch of friendly reality).
Radio & TV imaging
Humorous bites (various)

His characters and impressions can be serious, wry, hip, crazy, silly or just plain strange wild and wierd! (Ok, got in a few nice key words there!)

On-camera experience includes Man-on-the-Street interviews with lots of Improvisation.

In a nutshell, friendly, real guy to a wry dry sarcastic dude to high energy excitement / excited guy to deep driving movie trailer promos to training films to approachable nice guy to goofy silly to thoughtful caring powerful characters.

My Training

Marice Tobias, Kalmenson & Kalmenson, Louise Chamis and others.

Communication training for real, conversationality

Improv training

School of Life

My Studio Equipment

TLM-103 with the NEW EA - M600 shock mount (AWESOME sound)

ISDN box (Zephyr)
Mackie ONYX mixer
Presonus Preamp
Sound Forge
My voice:-)

Additional Skills

I also do on-camera acting specializing in improv or, if scripted, with the freedom to play with script somewhat -- to make it my own.

Ari's (shameless) keywords have been described in terms such as:

Real conversational Impressions Voice matching - non-announcer announcer - Man on the street - Hosting - friendly - Don La Fontaine Movie Trailers - film on-camera acting - Deep Promos Voice over work - voiceovers - acting - Dennis Leary - dry - greetings - voice mail - phone greetings - sarcastic reads - funny - silly - trailer - corporate - narration - wacky -witty - big - humorous - humor - comedy -weird - comedic - comedian - stand-up - impressions - monotone - friendly - Second Life


To find out about a new Internet streaming technology I have developed which allows me to do a session through the Internet without ISDN (which I do have available) I invite you to go to my site, click on the upper left hand corner streaming info page link to access my website and feel free to have a look.

Thanks for takin' the time to read (probably the longest description on this site) my profile!

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