Cold Tropics » drone http://coldtropics.com mutating mediums Wed, 28 Jul 2010 23:10:59 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 a brief ontology http://coldtropics.com/2010/01/a-brief-ontology/ http://coldtropics.com/2010/01/a-brief-ontology/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:47:02 +0000 paul j. http://coldtropics.com/?p=290

Footage of Thurston Moore listening to music by the recently deceased Maryanne Amacher. I find the honesty of this video incredible. You have a performer and a listener, and that’s it. Music is the mystery of the cosmos that exists between those two entities.

]]> http://coldtropics.com/2010/01/a-brief-ontology/feed/ 0 our love will destroy the world http://coldtropics.com/2010/01/our-love-will-destroy-the-world/ http://coldtropics.com/2010/01/our-love-will-destroy-the-world/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:52:49 +0000 paul j. http://coldtropics.com/?p=259 Our Love Will Destroy the World is Campbell Kneale (who used to perform under the name Birchville Cat Motel). He played in a bus like two weeks ago. It was parked on San Bruno Avenue off of 15th St. underneath the highway. I like how at the beginning of this video all you can hear is the highway, but it could have conceivably been part of his set.

It was a good show. I listened to some old punk dudes talk about how all they listen to now is trance, and there was a guy that showed up with a bunch of beer for everyone.

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Here is a track I recorded in January, 2008 with guitars and violins. I may attempt to do something similar again in January 2010.

Avicenna – On the Cause of Mountains

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