Rob Crowston

Voice Description

I offer a flexible, friendly style. I am not " Mr. Radio". Although comfortable with the role of 'the announcer', I am most often used as the everyman authority. I have the ability to lift a script off the page, and more importantly convey the message in ways that will motivate the lister to action.

Voice Genders and "Ages" I Can Perform

• Young Adult Male
• Middle Age Male
• Senior 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
• Audiobooks
• Documentaries
• Movie and game trailers
• Podcasts
• Adult content

Jobs I Am Willing to Take (Union-wise)

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My Union Affiliations and Memberships

None

My Recording and Delivery Capabilities

• I can record and then upload the audio files via FTP

Pre-, Post- and Production Services I Offer

None

My Home Base

Vancouver, Canada

Accents, Impersonations, Characters and Dialects

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My Voice Experience

There’s a rhythm that happens on a busy street. Most of us hear only the noise of the traffic; a horn honks, a siren races past. Then there are those who hear things differently. They live for sound. They play with sound like a kid in a sandbox. They hear the tszzz, tszzz, tszzz of a high-hat as the tires go by in the rain. They chop sound up into little bits and bytes and make whole new sounds from the old sounds. They hear things that we don’t even know we can’t hear. They sing “testing, one, two, three” in their dreams.

Rob has those kinds of ears. Working with sound was an certainty. And from his work with sound came radio plays, and commercials, and live sound for on-location broadcasts in exotic locations, and some not so exotic; like the Russian folk choir in an old church basement.

And from working so long with sound, he hears words differently too, and does things with words that elude the studied, the practiced. Rob wrote corporate communications, promos, demos and radio spots with characters and situations and funny voices that shook up clients who had only ever experienced grocery lists, with “lot's of free parking” slapped on the end.

Sometimes the words combine with the Paboom! of a cannon fired over the drawbridge of a 17th century fort, or the skirl of bagpipes fading into the mist. Rob has created GPS driven multi-language audio tours for locations as diverse as London, Bermuda, Toronto and San Francisco.

In the hallways and classrooms of the B.C. Institute of Technology, Rob has shared his years of technical know-how, the importance of words, with the producer’s of tomorrow inspiring creativity and better communication.

My Training

Still learning....
...and teaching...

My Studio Equipment

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Additional Skills

1990 – Present: Owner / President
Wordnoise Studios
Vancouver, BC
Creative sound design for Broadcast / Multi-media / Documentary / Foreign language projects / Electronic Gaming

2005 – Present: Instructor – BCIT – Part Time Studies
Sound Design for Radio

1979 – 1990 CKWX – CKKS
Radio Production Mgr./Creative Director
All aspects of Radio broadcast production and creative

Throughout: Writer / Reader / Music / Arts

Awards Clio Award / 1984 / Best Conceived and Produced / “Patti’s Cookies”

Lotus Award / 1991 / Best Radio Campaign / “Vancouver Aquarium”

Lotus Award / 1991 / Best Public Service / “CNIB”

Numerous BCAB's & Canadian Radio Commercial Awards

Payment Methods Accepted

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Online Payments Via PayPal

Contact Information

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