Bruno Luse

English (UK) accents - Posh, working class, Scottish, Irish, Welsh, Cockney, old seadog/pirate, farmer, pub owner, bartender, footman, butler, stiff upper-lipped army officer. American accents - Southern, Texas drawl, New York taxi driver, Californian twang, smooth Boston, 1930s mobster, 1950s classic silver screen. Australian and New Zealand English accents. Asian accents - Singaporean English (Singlish) with and without foreign words added, Malaysian and Indonesian English, Philippino, Indian English (middle class), Indian English (working class), Japanese, Hong Kong English. Indian English (Northern and Southern Indian accents). Other foreign accents - French (heavy to mild), German, Italian, Spanish, Russian. Specific voice effects - drunk, high, just inhaled helium, hallucinating, depressed/suicidal, scared to death, manic-depressive. Other special effects - Evil maniac laughter, pathetic whimpering, getting slapped/punched, death fall screaming, injury grunting/yelping. Specific character/actor impersonations (amongst others) - Darth Vader, Obi wan Kenobi, Borat, Sean Connery, Antonio Banderas, Yoda, James Bond, Rambo, Gregory Peck, David Niven, Morpheus, Agent Smith. Given enough time, I can learn to impersonate almost any voice or accent that I hear, provided a sufficiently large audio word base is provided.

I have been acting since the age of 4 and doing voice-overs since the age of 6. Being dramatic, funny and generally entertaining is a fundamental part of my character! Since 2003 most of my work has been done for oral assessment examinations in Singapore, as well as the recording of pre-show and pre-interval announcements for plays and other theatre presentations at which I have been doing sound or lights. Theatre studies and drama at A levels. I am a trained musician (my parents are both music teachers) and I play bass guitar, drums, percussion and some acoustic guitar. During the day I work as a professional sound engineer, doing mainly live sound but also some recording eg for school music examinations. I am also a communications skills trainer for a local tertiary institution, and run classes in sound and lighting for local secondary schools and junior colleges. I have a small home studio which I use for recording voice demos as well as classical guitar tracks for my father (he is a composer and performer) Recording and processing equipment: Lexicon Omega USB interface Event Tuned Reference 6 nearfield monitors DBX 4066 quad compressor K&M popkiller mic windscreen K&M microphone stands Microphones: Beyerdynamic MC930 and Opus 69 Rode NT1 and NT1A Shure SM57 Cables are either Klotz or Canare, with Neutrik connectors. All wiring is balanced and shielded. As a Christian I enjoy reading the Bible and often experiment with dramatic readings of certain passages or in trying to come up with character voices for Old or New Testament characters. I was a history teacher for several years in secondary school and during that period I made use of accents and general vocal madness to make my lessons more interesting, or frightening as the case might have been...