Todd Yvega
Todd Yvega transcribed Frank Zappa's Synclavier compositions for the Ensemble Modern.
He also did the background music for "Duckman", a 1990s adult-oriented animated comedy series that aired on the USA Network . During the program, there are snippets of Zappa's compositions, some of which to date are: Big Swifty, King Kong, T'Mershi Duween, Let's Make The Water Turn Black, Alien Orifice, plus other bits and bites left in FZ's database.
Credits for synclavier transcriptions, sampling, sample arrangement:
Civilization Phaze III — vocals
The Yellow Shark
Greggery Peccary & Other Persuasions
Todd Yvega was interviewed in Frank Scheffer's Frank Zappa: The Present-Day Composer Refuses To Die (2000), Frank Zappa Phase II: The Big Note (2002) and Frank Zappa: Pioneer Of Future Music, parts 1 & 2 (2007). He is included in the list of names on the cover of The MOFO Project/Object (2006) album. [1]
Yvega wrote the foreword in the liner notes of the albums Feeding The Monkies At Ma Maison (2011) and Dance Me This (2015).
