 What a serious result!
With the incredible generosity of HOT 102.7FM listeners, the station raised a phenomenal R27,565,000 (that's about 1.5 million euro!!!) to support those in need in their community. 💛 Now HOT is able to make a meaningful impact for both people and animals in need. 🧸💫 It's great to be a small part of the South African HOT102.7FM Teddython as their radio imaging announcer, along with living VO legend Duke Morgan 🧸 Well done to everyone who got involved! HOT truly does care 🔥
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Some NEW WORK for a wonderful new brand, Vhi.
I'm really enjoying working with this Irish institution, and the brilliant creative team behind every campaign in Droga 5. This is a small snippet of some of the work we are doing together across radio, TV, VOD, Socials and Digital. More to come soon...!  The Society of Authors have been doing excellent work in the AI safeguarding arena, ensuring that creatives of all disciplines - not just authors - are being protected in upcoming legislation around the use of generative AI that is trained on the existing work of artists.
They've created a website to this end - and ongoing petition that has been endorsed by the likes of Kate Mosse, Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian Rankin, as well as almost 35,000 other creators. aitrainingstatement.org I've signed. If you are a creator, I would urge you to as well.  I've been feeling extra 'flames' these days now that I've received a very special delivery from South Africa's finest radio station (if I do say so myself) HOT 102.7FM!
Here I am sporting their delightful baseball cap reminding you all of their excellent old school and R&B classics playing daily on HOT. I also have a very friendly HOT CARES teddy bear keeping me company in the studio, as well as a lovely mug keeping my vocal chords warm when I'm recording new imaging for South Africa's award-winning radio station. It's nice to be nice, and it's very nice to have reminders of the great clients and companies I work for surrounding me in my studio every day. Listen to my HOT 102.7FM persona here: https://hot1027.co.za/  These delightful Autumnal scenes are brought to you by my son, Ireland's National Botanical Garden of Kilmacurragh, and Staycity Group 😉
When I got on board as Staycity's brand voice this time last year I quickly learned that this is a company that takes hospitality very seriously, even with their voice actor! A few weeks after I landed the role, I was sent this Dublin #GAA jersey for my boy, who Staycity sponsor, as you may know. I felt it was high time it had an outing in the gloriously brief October sunshine this weekend. You can hear the current Staycity campaign running on Irish and UK radio, on Virgin media channels in Ireland, and on Sky Adsmart in the UK. Keep the eyes and ears peeled.  I popped into Mutiny Recording Studios in Dublin today to do a spot of recording as a brand new Brand Voice for a great brand. I can't say the name of the brand just yet, but when I can reveal the deets, best believe you will hear it here first.
This was a pretty intensive audition process and it was very nice to land the role at the end of it. Keep the ears on the radio and telly and the eyes firmly glued to my website and social media announcements, if you're *that* invested, that is. I certainly am! I'm delirah and exirah, truth be told. More soon.... 
After a lovely - and distinctly sweaty - break away in Portugal over the last week, I stepped swiftly back into the studio at bitsixteen with Paul Fegan for a spot of character recording for Health Service Executive. Feeling refreshed and rested as I head into the next few weeks at the mic before I and my family go on another adventure (with baby no.2!).  You never know what you'll be voicing on any given day as a voice actor, and that's why the humble art of e-learning voice-over work is often, surprisingly, a joy to me.
I work with a number of e-learning companies, one of them is LRN, through whom I have learned all about how to perform, ahem, I mean prevent, money laundering and other financial crimes, as well as how to steal and/or protect sensitive information from getting out into the big bad world of the internet, all through Austen English! Most recently, I got to travel to Scotland, The Phillippines, the US, and Mexico via Diageo, all without ever having to book a ticket or disrobe from my studio earphones. Whatever will voice-over bring me next...? I'm on the edge of my seat here waiting to find out.  The journalist Cathy Li interviewed me for ASIA IP, a magazine that focuses on legal issues for the industry in Asia. Using my story as a highlight for the intersecting issues of AI expansion and artistic copyright, the article delves into great detail about this murky, many-stranded situation. Interviewing me alongside leaders in law, IP, and tech, and referencing the union action taking place in the USA, Li aims to highlight the difficult legal balance that is being struck between what many hail as 'technological progress' and those on the other side of the coin, calling for greater protections of human-made creations, and human rights to fair compensation, work, and freedom of thought. The power imbalance at the heart of the whole issue is one she returns to, and its clear (to me, at least) that this is the true crux of the issue. The David vs Goliath battle rages on! (Clarke) argues that the unchecked growth of AI in creative fields threatens to undermine the value of artistic work and exploit artists. “They’re destroying creative industries in their drive for what they would call progress,” Clarke said. For more about David, Goliath, myself, Scarlett, Sam, Fran, Bill et al, read the article in full here.
It was a very nice thing to be setting foot back in the Beacon Studios once more after a protracted hiatus, and under the stewardship of Noel Storey, chief man at the studios, as we recorded some new radio for Barden, the expert Irish recruitment company.
Much in the world has changed since last I walked through the doors of the Beacon, but thankfully, it hasn't, and yet it still looks as fresh and clean as it ever did, much like Noel, who hasn't aged a day. We were joined by the lovely Siobhan Gavigan of The Radio Room and Jennifer Brennan of Thrive Marketing, and, as always, it was good to be in the company of clients in a live recording session. Collaboration at its finest, not an endless wheel or frozen screen in sight! |
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AuthorRM Clarke is a writer and voice-over artist. She has written for various literary mags and anthologies and won awards. She has put her voice to most things she can think of. Categories |
