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Performance in Venice

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This Window occasionally releases pieces exclusively on YouTube , and this is one of those small, self‑contained vignettes: a field‑recorded fragment shaped into music. The city’s natural acoustics, the soft resonance of the lagoon, and the unpredictable rhythm of daily life form the backbone of the track. It’s less a composition and more a document — a brief, unrepeatable intersection between place, sound and time. A Rare Performance in Venice A moment captured in Venice, where the city itself becomes the instrument. The bells you hear are not effects or samples – they are the living soundscape of Venice in full voice. Piazza San Marco (St Mark’s Square) is the heart of the city, known locally simply as the Piazza . It has long been the centre of Venice’s social, religious and political life, and its daily soundtrack is a shifting cacophony of bells, footsteps, voices, and water echoing through stone. Watch the performance: Venice Highlights Venice is saturated w...
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Track inspired by Wistman's Wood

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This Killing Thing (Live) and the ecological context of Wistman’s Wood The lyrics for this track were inspired by a visit to Wistman’s Wood in the late 1970s. Even back then, its environmental and cultural importance was well recognised, as it’s one of the most significant remaining fragments of Britain’s Atlantic temperate rainforest . Although small in extent, the wood represents a rare continuity of pre‑Neolithic forest ecology and provides a useful framework for understanding the track’s atmosphere, instability, and sense of impending destruction. This track is in many ways about man's impact on the environment - 'This killing thing inside this machine' -   we are, in fact, the killing thing. Where pitted stone becomes knotted oak... This Killing Thing (Live) captures This Window at their most unfiltered: a moment where chaos isn’t just present, it’s the entire accidental aesthetic. The mix is still being wrangled, the sound engineer is fighting a losing battle...
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3mm Philips-Type Eurorack Screws

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Morgue Studio: Modular Upgrade & A Small 1990s Discovery Following the recent upgrade of Morgue Studio’s modular synth racks — with new modules from Moog, Doepfer, Behringer and Rakit — an unexpected find surfaced during the tidy-up. A box of 3 mm Philips-type screws, untouched since the late 1990s, was discovered at the back of a storage drawer. These screws are the classic Eurorack size, ideal for mounting modules or replacing worn fasteners. There is a surplus, so if you need a few for your own rack builds or repairs, you are welcome to grab some while they are available. This Window free download series This small piece of studio history sits alongside the ongoing This Window free download series on Bandcamp, which opens up the archive and shares material recorded across several decades. The latest release, Hopeless 1989 – 2026 , is a free five-track digital compilation that serves as an introduction to the world of This Window, trac...
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Official Cassette Compilation List 1980s to 1990s

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This is not a complete list more can be found on Discogs.  Below is a selection of other official releases by This Window , covering the project’s audio‑cassette compilation output during the 1980s and 1990s. Much of This Window’s early work emerged directly from the cassette‑culture underground , a decentralised, fiercely independent network of artists, labels and home‑recordists who exchanged music through the post. These tapes were often duplicated on domestic equipment, packaged by hand, and circulated via mail‑order lists, fanzines and word‑of‑mouth. The movement blurred the lines between sound, visual art and DIY publishing — a perfect environment for This Window’s experimental, textural approach. Alongside cassette culture, the project was also connected to the mail‑art movement , where artists traded handmade artworks, collages, sound pieces and ephemera across international postal networks. Releases often travelled the same routes as mail‑art exchanges, reaching listeners,...
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Gone are the Days of You and I

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"Gone are the Days of You and I" by This Window Inspired by the existential writings of Jean-Paul Sartre Download Free "The age of reason is here to stay, gone are the days when we used to play..." This Window’s Gone are the Days of You and I is a stark meditation on the transition from innocence to existential awareness. Drawing from Sartre’s philosophical canon—particularly Nausea and Iron in the Soul —the lyrics evoke a world stripped of illusion, where play yields to responsibility and warmth gives way to the chill of self-awareness. The accompanying video underscores the tragedy of love lost in war. Time slips by, and lovers part after a brief respite from the battlefront, returning to the harsh reality of conflict. Though the imagery harks back to the 1940s, the narrative resonates with contemporary relevance, serving as a poignant allegory. The phrase "Iron in the soul" is no accident. It references Sartre’s wartime novel T...
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Studio Upgrade

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Morgue Studio: New Modular Additions Morgue Studio has expanded its analogue sound capabilities with a new installation of modular synth racks. This upgrade brings a more tactile, hands-on approach to sound creation, moving beyond virtual instruments and into real-time, physical signal shaping. The new system incorporates modules from Moog , Doepfer , Behringer and Rakit — each contributing its own character and design philosophy to the studio’s evolving sound palette. Moog Moog’s modules carry the unmistakable warmth and musicality that helped define the early landscape of electronic music. Their oscillators and filters add weight, presence and analogue authority, grounding new recordings in the physical circuitry that shaped entire genres. Doepfer Doepfer, the company behind the Eurorack standard, brings precision and structure. Their modules are known for reliability and clarity, enabling complex patching, detailed signal routing and an architectural approach to modula...
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Crash '87 by This Window (2025 Video)

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Crash ’87 is more than a track—it’s a node in a network of ideas about fragility, control, and collapse. The Kimura Gallery (University of Alaska) exhibition amplified this by situating the work in a space where sound, image, and philosophy converge, turning a small mouse into a profound meditation on power, vulnerability, and the genetics of art. This video was made in homage to that exhibition in 2025. Get Track Here The remixing of a 1981 track Crash ’26 channels the enduring DIY spirit of home taping into a deeply reflective and time-warped experience. It approaches the past not as mere nostalgia but as fertile raw material: the gentle hiss of ageing tape, the textured grain of home-built studio experiments, and the fragile warmth of recordings first captured in 1981 are all resurrected and reimagined under the luminous glow of 2026’s digital era. Crash '26 stands as a quintessential This Window homage to the homemade, artscape music of the 19...
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