monkey set – Aaron J. Trumm

Monkey Rhymes

September 22, 2008 by Aaron

aaron j. trumm, monkey rhymes, monkey set, nquit music, poetry, spoken word, techno/classical, third option, trance

Monkey Rhymes, by Third Option

Quick song. I could barely get the link and the lyrics and the buy button pasted by the time it was over!

Yes this is the monkey rhymes one I talked of before that was so berated by some cat on Broadjam.com – here it is in all it’s glory!

i don’t know but i been told
that you want me to fold
i don’t know but i been told
that you want monkey to fold

monkey in my monkey zoo fuck you
but if you wanna look at me you must be true
and i ain’t lookin for nobody at the back of the room
you must get yourself up front if you want this tune
’cause i’m more than a skinny little lemur from burma
been to every other town down with every fraterni
tee! i’m a monkey hey! look at me
i think you need to look in a mirror
then you’ll see
hey hey! party people! look what ya see!
i guess ya didn’t realize that you’re just like me
now what you gonna say
when monkey come to play
for the last time on the last day
yeah
you won’t even look
’cause you way too shook
just like Peter when he caught Wendy with that Hook
but you don’t really need to worry when I’m stealin your curry
’cause every monkey in the jungle knows
i’m in a hurry!
to get back to the top of the food chain
keep ya monkeyin around til you go insane
yeah here we go for the last time look at me now
monkey see monkey do
breakin outta the zoo!

i don’t know but i been told
that you want me to fold
i don’t know but i been told
that you want monkey to fold

monkey
monkey see monkey do
monkey make money in the back of the santa monica zoo
monkey say the last word from the last man from the last mouth
from the last family monkey on the planet

monkey

won’t take this

anymore.

So there you have it! But hey – you still might want to get your FREE DOWNLOADS! CLICK HERE FOR THAT! 🙂

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You Can Never Stop Us

September 18, 2008 by Aaron

aaron trumm, classical, fusion, monkey set, poetry, spoken, techno, third option, trance, word, you can never stop us

You Can Never Stop Us, by Third Option

Oh wow I almost forgot about this one. The thing that I like about this one, actually, is how there’s this group of dudes (multiple version of me of course) saying “you can never stop us” real fast and for most of the time, it just sounds like rhythm instruments, but then at times I notice “oh yeah those are dudes saying you can never stop us!” That’s neat 🙂

There’s really a mixed message in this piece of poem. It’s interesting, because I do that a lot, but I think that makes a more accurate representation of “truth”. “Truth” isn’t this black and white thing where you can take one position. I’ve always said (not always – but a long time) that “truth is a mobius” – meaning that if you take a “position” on something, and follow the train of logic long enough, you’ll find yourself saying the opposite of what you started saying. I think this is part of the fundamental nature of things, where reality is paradoxical – and we do find that most of the greatest truths ARE very paradoxical. Committment-Non-Attachment is one of the major ones.

When it comes to this poem, there isn’t really a paradox as much as a double-edged sword. I was ranting about the wonderfulness of monkeys (monkeys still of course being a very thinly veiled metaphor for humanity) and I say how we dance on the corpse of impossibleness and it seems that this is good news to me, and I like it, and I want it. And then I say how we will adapt, and that still seems to be good news, but then in the next line I say “too dry, monkey? casinos with water fountains every 30 feet” and at that point it no longer seems like good news. Now I’m saying this is ridiculous, we’re not accepting, in effect, we’re NOT adapting, we’re forcing the environment to adapt, we’re trying to put water where there is not water.

And that does sort of emphasize again the mobius nature of truth and reality. We start out with adapting, take it too far, and come out not adapting. Doing the very opposite. And well, I guess I just become another person pointing out that there can be too much of a good thing, that anything taken too far is too much.

I guess that’s why some wise people say “everything in moderation, even moderation.”

The “lyrics” in question:

allow me to introduce myself
i’m the tallest monkey in the clouds
and you can never stop us
because monkeys know just what to do
where to do it
and how

monkeys know just how to howl at the moon
like wolves could never do
you can never stop us
we’ll run to the edges of earth
and when 100 of us know
the rest of know

and when the rest of us follow the edges of the san francisco trolly of the beat
monkeys help dance on the corpse of impossibleness

until the fattest monkey of them all transforms
right here in the desert
monkey wants to make a killing in the arizona sun
too hot, monkey?
we’ll adapt
too dry, monkey?
casinos with water fountains every 30 feet
monkeys
monkeys
show us your true colors

trapped at the edges of the world rolling dough

you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us
you can never stop us

Even if you want to stop us ;), there’s still free stuff at thirdoptionmusic.com 🙂

– Aaron

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Run

September 17, 2008 by Aaron

aaron trumm, monkey set, music, run, spoken word, techno/classical/poetry fusion, third option

Run, by Third Option

Pretty sure I improv’d this whole piece of poem here to tape. I remember a few days later I did an improv based on this – or – wait – it could be – yes I think it is – I think it’s reversed. What really happened was I did an improv with this refrain “run out the door we don’t need no more plastic floors” at a youth/teen slam in Spring, TX which I was hosting. We had a little round of doing improv and they all wanted me to try, and something like this is what I said. I didn’t say monkeys, but I did use that run out the door thing. I remember that I did it much better at the slam, actually. I remember I kind of starting taking off and getting into this socio political shit about 7up bottles and plastic floors and it was really powerful and people were like “WOW! DAMN! AMAZING! HOLY SHIT!” and such.

Yeah, and then this time, I didn’t quite get the same badassness as at the slam, but I got somethin. 🙂

That reminds me of this one guy who used to slam around the nation. His name was Abraham and he was from the south somewhere. He had a really sort of huck finn/way spiritual vibe – not straight essay style easy to understand spoken word like they do in slam nowadays, but poetry stuff, but he’d really go off. And he was an amazing improv person. I saw him improv at the Taos Poetry Circus slam and the thing about him was, his improv, the stuff that just came to mind for him, was the same as his written poetry. He just thought and talked like that. I mean I guess he didn’t talk like that if you sat at coffee with him, but when he improv’d it was no less poetic and crafted and beautiful. He could probably improv and you wouldn’t be able to tell. But not like guys who write as if they were talking or writing a prose essay. Like a POET, which was really weird and amazing to watch. He would just launch into this spiritual flight immedietly. I really tried to take him into me and have his thing become a part of my style. He was fuckin amazing. I wonder whatever happened to that guy.

Anyway here’s what’s on the record as far as poem for “Run”:

run
run
run out the door
run out the door
we don’t need no more plastic floors
run
run
out the door
where the tree lined skies begin again
run
out the door
run out the door
we don’t need no more plastic floors
run out the door
run out the cage
run out the stage
run off the stage
run off this stage of monkey lies and monkey things
and monkey things we must not do run
out the door
run out the door
we don’t need no more plastic floors
we got dirt
we got soil
we got the red wet earth
run out the door
run out the door
we don’t need no more plastic floors
we don’t need no more plastic floors
we don’t need no more plastic floors
monkeys
belong
in trees
in jungles
in the earth
on the earth
on the red wet earth
we don’t need no more plastic floors
we don’t need no more
plastic floors

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Climb, Monkey, Climb

September 16, 2008 by Aaron

aaron trumm, climb monkey climb, climb to the earth, monkey set, poetry, slam poetry, techno music

Climb, Monkey, Climb, by Third Option

Not sure if I improv’d some of this or not. I think maybe I did. If I didn’t, then I just jotted something down real quick. You can tell by all the repetition that it’s not a long-crafted work of utter care. 🙂

I like the notion “this isn’t a monkey’s job all this beating down of apes” – I remember that one. It isn’t really our calling to be all violent and dominating – our calling is to climb and exalt and whatever you wanna say. So yeah, here you go.

this isn’t
this isn’t
this isn’t wasted time
wake up in the morning
and find your tail wrapped around a naked rhyme

this isn’t
this isn’t wasted time

climbing
flying is for the birds

monkey climb
climb
climb to the top of everything
dance into the desert
lead
into the ancient monkey breath of time

this isn’t
this isn’t
this isn’t a monkey’s job all this beating down of apes

monkeys were made to climb
travel
to feed the universe cackling
and screach
screach
screach eternity into the truth

climb
climb
climb, monkey, climb
climb
climb to the earth
climb to the earth
climb to the top of the soiled world

now rule
rule
monkeys
gods
daybreak
lust
rule
RULE
RULE
RULE

monkey in the sky!

And…You’ve seen me say it before I’m sure, but FREE STUFF AWAITS RIGHT HERE 🙂

— Aaron

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Kong

September 11, 2008 by Aaron

fusion music, kong, monkey set, nquit, piano, poem, techno, trance

Kong, by Third Option

and here we are
at the green leafy apocalypse of it all
fallen down
broken bones

temptation sin and banishment
here we are
in the locker rooms and candlewax shops we forgot about
everything torn down and overrun

king kong fallen in the night
done in by monkeys
mighty mighty mad world
might wonder why the jungle does this

but we all know
it was the aching sun at fault
comparing the trusses of the castles of the sky to arms
making as much sense as a garden full of monkeys
laughing laughing laughing
crazy at the sight of king kong’s blood

“some might have thought,” they howled
as he felt long ago
how one ape rule the land
tile monkeys merge one day
on high ground

til one becomes 10 becomes a million of us
joined by the tail

standing in the blazing sun
one mega monkey with a crown
gleaming
choking
groping for a name

we forgot the last
we beat sense into our own breast and put the smaller monkeys back
we call ourselves king
and kong sits soon to follow

Hmm. Interesting. A lot in here. I’ll just listen.

You too! 🙂 If you haven’t already, you can get some free downloads at thirdoptionmusic.com 🙂

– Aaron

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Monkey See

September 9, 2008 by Aaron

aaron trumm, monkey see, monkey set, nquit music, poetry, propellerhead rebirth, techno, third option

Here’s Monkey See, by Third Option

Hmm. Maybe I should have made other songs called “monkey do” and…oh that’s the whole phrase.

Some of this is improv’d too, but then I guess I wrote it down and then recorded it – or something.

monkey monkey monkey see
monkey do
monkey make money in the back of the zoo
monkey take
monkey make
monkey make money make money monkey
make take money take monkey take
monkey take
monkey don’t like to give
now all the vicious monkeys in the jungle cage the rest in zoos

monkey
monkey
monkey!

monkey jump from the bridge to the roof
monkey sit sadly in the street lights waiting for groove
monkey
monkey
monkey say
wanna plaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyy????

monkey dance with demons when the day go away
monkey wants
monkey wants
monkey wants what they don’t have in santa monica zoo
monkey thinks
monkey sits
monkey finally decides to split

and now monkey gets all fucked up on qualudes and burnt toast
and all monkey wants to do is fuck some little monkey girls
but monkey girls know better than to fuck with monkey now
’cause monkey look more like an ape these days
all buffed up on horse hormones
lookin like he mighta gone to mad monkey land
“yeah, i’m mad,” monkey says
“I’m really really mad! because they don’t play my song anymore!”
“because they won’t give me what I want anymore”
“because all those things we talked about before ain’t happenin anymore”
“because I NEED my monkey greed, motherfucker”
“and I’mon wrap my tail around any tree limb coca leaf twig bean or branch”
“that takes me outta this fucked up America of broken monkey lives”
“i’m not a monkey, I’m just a brown man with a brown plan”
“and maybe you oughtta remember that the next time you slap my hand”
“yeah, monkey read, monkey think, monkey LEAD”
“monkey rise up and make a revolution”
“how many king kongs are there?”
“only ONE”
“and when he falls,
“all the monkeys and lions and wildebeasts in the jungle are gonna have a little love in”
“til there ain’t no more powder cane monkeys spillin poison in the jungle streets”
“til there ain’t no more woe or wonder or hard monkey choices”
“til the rest of us take charge”
“and NOBODY calls us monkey anymore!!!”

Meanwhile, still have some free stuff at thirdoptionmusic.com 🙂

– Aaron

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Monkeys Belong In The Jungle Baby

September 5, 2008 by Aaron

monkey set, monkeys belong in the jungle baby, piano, poetry, techno, third option, trance

Well here, again, is the first “track” of The Monkey Set, “Monkeys Belong In The Jungle Baby”. It’s really just the build up to the first poem thing/second track. Here’s the “lyrics”, or the “poem” for this part. Which isn’t really lyrics or a poem. It’s just some improv I did on the mic. But then I noticed that that had a little statement – we belong in the jungle. Not in vast expanses of concrete. Etc.

I’m not really sure why I was saying “lonely lovely bouncing baby”. *laugh*

monkey

lonely
lovely
bouncing baby
lonely
lovely
bouncing baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby
lonely lovely bouncing baby
monkeys belong in the jungle baby

That’s – you know – kind of all there is to this one. I regret having the vocals throughout this whole CD be a little too quiet. But I kinda like my performances from just a vocal art/sound perspective. *shrug*

So as always, I say grab some free Third Option stuff right in this link! 🙂

– Aaron

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Procedure for recording Third Option “Monkey Set” CD Mix Set

November 12, 2006 by Aaron

monkey set, recording

Basic Setup:

Initial Recording Format: 8 Track Emu Darwin
Mix Destination Format: DAT/CD
Final Format: CD Master and Duplicated CD-Rs
Mixer: Behringer DDX3216 32 Channel Automated Digital Mixer
Outboard Processing: Internal to the Behringer mixer
Synths: Alesis S4, Boss DR660 Drum Machine
Software: Propellerhead’s Rebirth, Cakewalk
Mics: Shure 55SH (50’s style mic)
Mastering: Behringer Ultrafex

Procedure:

Tracking:This 20 minute mix set was pretty much a one day project. I sat in my home, not in the studio, and played with the settings on Propellerhead’s Rebirth in realtime for around 20 minutes and let that be the basic foundation. Because it was brand new to me, I didn’t even KNOW that you could simply export things as a .wav file, so I brought the 8 track harddisk recorder Darwin (by EMU) upstairs and took the 1/8th inch stereo out from the computer’s normal soundcard into 2 tracks of Darwin with a Y cable. Then I just played back the Rebirth song to Darwin, and took Darwin downstairs. I lined the Darwin tracks up to where they’d be in sync with Cakewalk. Then I set up a single sequence, and where there were relatively major changes in the sections on the Rebirth song, I created a new drum pattern, which I recorded in stereo on two tracks of Darwin, to sort of spice up the drums. Then I’d do the same with a synth track. In the beginning it was some airy thing, I played improv’d stuff, made sure it was all in time in Cakewalk, and then recorded it to Darwin. There was an organ solo of some kind in there, various little spice ups, not too crazy.Then I spent a little while coming up with various little poems and a little rhyme and even a little melody in that section, about a metaphorical monkey, who I pictured as a sort of cracked-out Curious George, and set up the Shure mic, and just winged it. I tried to just have some various voices and experiment with saying things like I’d never said them. Recorded that and a couple of backing vocals onto Darwin (mostly in the beginning), and then mixed down.
Mixing:Pretty easy mix. The Rebirth song was pretty well balanced, the vocals didn’t seem CRUCIAL anyway *laugh*, so I went through a couple passes, did weird things to most of the vocals like telephoning or using metallic effects, just experimenting with the Behringer’s effects, really, automating the drum channels to sort of move a little bit so they’d sit, and the same thing with the vocals, and ran it. It probably took an hour or two to do the whole 20 minute mix.
Mastering/Editing:There wasn’t really a mastering or editing stage, other than, once I’d set up my mix, I took the Behringer Ultrafex and tweaked the overall sound like I like to do. Later when I dubbed the thing to disc to send to get a few copies made, I did a little compression via the Behringer’s compressor, and left it alone otherwise.
Notes:

This was an experiment project, basically. I made some copies because what I came up with was fun, if not ultra songwriterish and crafted to ultimate perfection. The mix actually sounded pretty dang clean, especially for how fast everything was done. The point of the project was the whole thing of taking Rebirth tracks and integrating them with some more stuff. This was my first venture into using any sort of soft synth. It was fun, although Rebirth is certainly a different tool, and hard to get used to really making it do something unique. I wouldn’t call this project groundbreaking when it comes to the use of Rebirth! 🙂 My favorite part of the thing is the metaphoric monkey, frankly, and nobody seems to understand that whole trip.

monkey-set

Monkey Rhymes

You Can Never Stop Us

Run

Climb, Monkey, Climb

Kong

Monkey See

Monkeys Belong In The Jungle Baby

Procedure for recording Third Option “Monkey Set” CD Mix Set

Basic Setup:

Procedure:

Notes: