July 2015 - Aaron J. Trumm

The Far View

July 28, 2015 by Aaron

andre de korvin, poetry, techno, the four hard edges of war, third option

Here’s the second track on The Four Hard Edges Of War – The Far View.

What can I say here? As I listen I’m trying to remember how to play that piano part. It’s amazing how much you can forget. Oh there’s two piano parts. I do that a lot. Like a duet – only I’ll record in the same range – so it’s like two actual pianos rather than four hands one piano.

I love the line “..that emptiness starts to fill their space…”. I always found the poem/book (The Four Hard Edges Of War) so amazing because it’s so surreal but then if you look again at the language it’s SO plain. I think Andre’s a big ‘ol genius.

There’s all this scheme programming in this one I think. And multiple versions of the drum loop that are messed up in various ways.

“Awake and drifting through the water…”

“red faces of admirals flicker..”

That’s kind of how I hear poetry when it’s read, in these snippets surrounded by un-languaged energy swirling around. I hadn’t noticed that that’s how I then used the poem in this bunch of avante garde ass techno dance music. I was thinking of it like samples you might hear in a night club. We always thought of Third Option that way. You’d go to an underground club and hear the boom boom chi boom and then some snippet of a movie or something – it might say “danger danger go go go” or something and we wondered what it would be like if those snippets were actual poetry – and original. So here’s Andre doing this thing in snippets – and it’s much different – but hopefully honors, Andre’s meaning and energy in his original poem and reading. Of course we made the original reading available too, because HEY! 🙂 Here’s that:

Ha Ha when I hear him say stuff, I expect the beat to come in…and then it doesn’t! lol

Wow. “I would like to sleep, oblivious, of the thousand faces of corruption.” Yep.

HEY! Here’s a thing – you can now grab a couple FREE Third Option tracks – just click HERE and enjoy on me! 🙂

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The View From Lighter Years Away

July 17, 2015 by Aaron

The Four Hard Edges Of War

andre de korvin, nquit music, piano, poetry, spoken word, techno, the view from lighter years away, third option

HEY! For the first time in like…what? 10 years? I’m writing these little blog posts again! Linking to TUNEZ, sayin some STUFF. 🙂

Ok…I’m gonna start in on The Four Hard Edges Of War, which is the last Third Option album, made mostly at CCRMA at Stanford. It’s a collaboration between me and Andre de Korvin, a great great poet from Houston. So first of all, here’s the first track…

The View From Lighter Years Away

That title is his – see what we did is, there’s a book by him: The Four Hard Edges Of War which as you see, we’ve also re-released as a digital book…

We recorded him reading the book. Then years later, I cut up piece of that recording, and used it as inspiration and weaved it in to a bunch of avante garde techno/piano. The View From Lighter Years away is track 1, because it’s section 1 in the book. The book is four parts.

All of the music stuff on Four Hard was created in strange ways, as various homework assignments in the master’s program at CCRMA. There’s real pianos that I played, but there are also drum tracks written in linux using Hydrogen, there are noise pieces and riffs written by programs…yes I meant that. I would write programs that would write music. That was part of the course of study! Here’s a picture of the studio where a lot of this record was made:

That’s actually a picture from 2013 but it’s pretty same same.

Andre was recorded earlier – like in 2002 or so, in Houston at Rock Romano’s Red Shack.

So there you go – a short post, but a post none-the-less!

HEY! Here’s a thing – you can now grab a couple FREE Third Option tracks – just click HERE and enjoy on me! 🙂

– Aaron

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