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Compilation #2: Yakety Yak PlunderPhonoPhilia

Rules:

- all audio material must be generated in Reaktor with these two Yakety Yak samples.
- one piece per participant, <= 3 minutes long.
- all styles welcome.

I realize that using samples from Yakety Yak is, strictly speaking, a violation of copyright. But since this is non-commercial, and since the submissions will fall clearly in the realm of parody, we should have no problems. And if we do all get arrested and sent to musical Siberia, how cool would that be ... ? ;-)

Yield (in reverse-alphabetical order by creator (first) name):

zerocrossing: dedopdehboh

I ran the Yakety sample (and pieces of the Yakety sample, and pieces of mangled versions of the Yakety sample) through a bunch of different ensembles. I know I used the following at various points in the project: Splitter, L3, Topinambur A (with a pure Yakety Sample Map), Redchannel, Simple Sampler, Rachboz Ungeheuer, It's Gonna Grain2, Trilobyte. There are probably other ensembles used that I'm forgetting.

"This wins for the coolest sounds derived from the original sample. I love the way this stays true to itself as a consistent form and then seems to fade out for a bit and comes back with a whole new section of even cooler sounds, hinting at further development a la Strawberry Fields Forever. I wish this one was about twice as long." - tubaman

theologiae: circle 6

sowari: Yakakkakka

"This sounds like something between a Steve Reich music and some strange African chanting. Very cool." - tubaman

rachMiel: yakDubb

i had a fever when i created this, like composing in a dream ... :-)

"Of all the pieces, I think this one makes the best use of space (silences) as well as virtual space, with a nice variety of reverb/delay applications." - tubaman

Marc Busch: Yakitori

I mainly used Vectory, L3, FX section from LimeLite, Flatblaster and some more (R5) effects.

"This is the favorite among favorite for me, simply because the composer dares to state the sample at the beginning and THEN take it out. I was actually surprised more pieces didn't approach that way. Some really cool "licks" are worked out from the sax bits and the foot gets tapping with the very creative "groove: that's been set up. Another song I could stand to listen to if it were about 8 minutes long." - tubaman

Jopy: Yakety Hak Excerpt

Several vocal sample slices were processed at different pitches and playback speeds in Scenario. Five different live mix sessions were made then spliced together and layered. This forms the first half of the piece. The excerpt, which is the second half of the piece, features slices of sax, drums, and bass at various pitches and grain sizes played in Randolph 2.

For the full version of Yakety Hak, go here.

Joe Risch: The Yak Bellows

"This has the feel of a very exotic soundtrack. It would have been a cool piece to use in King Kong (when they get to the Island), low-key kind of tribal sound and a bit disturbed. I love it." - tubaman

dongle doc: Good Yapety

beginning is done with the famous RACHBOZGEHEUER improved by myself ( i can upload it but it's a little untidy ! ). all rhythms come from KRYPT and GOBOX ( fed whith slices of yakety songs ) as well as sax tracks ... then the mastering is done by flatblaster 2.

"What I like most with this one is the use of the sax part of the sample. Especially around the mid-point of the song, where it gets sounding like some weird Anthony Braxton piece." - tubaman

chietronix: Glitchy Yak

"I have a limited tolerance for "glitch" music, at least in one sitting, but knowing what the original source material was, this pieces is fascinating to me. I love the variety of sounds and the musical development, which makes this piece work for me." - tubaman

Brian Kennedy: HackingYaks

HackingYaks was primarily modified using Vectory. I chopped up the original clips you supplied into 6 smaller clips using Cool Edit Pro and then placed those smaller clips into Vectory. Using Vectory and reaktors recorder I created roughly 30 mashed up loops. I then took those loops and sorted and
arranged the Ableton Live until I had a structure I liked. For some final touches I added some delay (Bucketboy), reverb (Spacemaster), and the compressed the mix with Flatblaster 2. All audio was only mangled using Reaktor, and now warping was used in Ableton.