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Hi-YAH!

Launch trailer for martial arts streaming network — music & sound, editing and motion

Created a trailer for martial arts streaming network Hi-YAH! — composed entirely of audio clips and sound effects from classic martial arts films, produced in Ableton Live.

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Hero Trailer
Ableton
Music Production
Still Live
On Landing Page
Client
Hi-YAH!
Role
Music & Sound Editing / Motion
Timeline
2020
The Project

Hi-YAH! is a martial arts streaming network featuring hundreds of hours of classic and modern films — from Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, Donnie Yen, Tony Jaa, and more. They needed a launch trailer that captured the energy, chaos, and soul of the genre in a single piece.

The Solve

Created a trailer consisting almost entirely of audio clips and sound effects sampled from classic martial arts films. Using Ableton Live, composed an original music track by matching video cuts with audio while building the song in real time. Hi-YAH! continues to use this trailer on their landing page today.

Hi-YAH! · The Martial Arts Channel

Music & Sound Design

Launch trailer · 2020 · scored in Ableton Live from the films' own hits, strikes and punches

The score is the fight. Nearly every sound in the trailer — the beat, the fills, the drops — is a hit, strike or punch lifted from the channel's own films, cut and tuned in Ableton Live against picture. The edit and the song were built at the same time, so the cuts land on the beat because the beat is made of the cuts.

How it was built

the picture window, enlarged
The sessionPlaying against picture — every clip on the grid is a sound pulled from the films.
Ableton Live arrangement: eleven colour-coded tracks of hits, strikes and dialogue laid out as a song, with the trailer playing in a video window
Ableton LiveEleven tracks of hits, strikes and dialogue, arranged as a song.
After Effects composition of the trailer's picture edit, with the layered audio tracks in the timeline
After EffectsThe picture side: the collage and the cuts, locked to the mix.

Ed Sergi — music & sound · editing · motion

A trailer scored with the films' own punches.
Edit and song built together, against picture.

Process

Built in Ableton Live

The entire track was produced in Ableton Live — sampling audio from dozens of martial arts films, syncing hits to video cuts, and layering effects into one musical composition.

Music as Editing

The editing process was inseparable from the music production. Every video cut was placed to land on a beat, and every audio sample was chosen to serve both the rhythm and the visual narrative. The result is a trailer that doubles as a song.

Source Material

Pulled audio from dozens of classic martial arts films across Hi-YAH!‘s catalog — dialogue snippets, fight foley, weapon impacts, and iconic yells. Each sample was cleaned, pitched, and arranged to create melodic and percussive elements within the composition.

Scope

Project Elements

Music ProductionSound DesignVideo EditingAbleton LiveAudio SamplingTrailer ProductionMotion DesignStreaming Platform
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