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The Cock by This Window

Taken from a forthcoming album, The Cock blends together audio source material recorded throughout the 1980s — fragments captured on compact cassette, ¼‑inch reel‑to‑reel tape, and even a VHS handheld video camera.

In 2026 these elements were pulled back into the light and rebuilt inside a new project using an older DAW, Cubase Studio 4 (version released in 2007) giving the piece a strange mix of analogue grit and early‑digital workflow. 

Pumping synth pulses throb like a buried heartbeat, while a lone cockerel crows somewhere in the background — a ragged echo from a world long gone. It feels like an archaeological dig in sound: the unearthing of a chicken that once was somebody’s lunch, now elevated to relic status. A forgotten scrap of everyday life, resurrected through tape hiss, broken circuitry, and the accidental poetry of decay.

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The Cock feels like opening a sealed time‑capsule from the British underground—except the contents aren’t neatly preserved; they’re warped, sun‑bleached, and beautifully contaminated by the decades they’ve survived. The video description notes that the piece is built from audio fragments recorded throughout the 1980s. The tape medium isn’t just the container here—it’s the instrument.

Sound & Texture

The track is a collage in the truest sense:

• Tape hiss becomes rhythm

• Dropouts become punctuation

• Mechanical noise becomes atmosphere

Rather than smoothing the edges, This Window leans into the abrasions. The result is a soundscape that feels both archival and alive—like something that shouldn’t still exist, yet insists on doing so.

There’s a sense of accidental music, but it’s too intentional to be accidental. The pacing, the layering, the way certain frequencies bloom and collapse—this is someone who understands how to sculpt with decay.

The mood is unsettling in a way that’s oddly comforting. It evokes:

• abandoned industrial spaces

• late‑night pirate radio

• the private, unfiltered experiments of early DIY culture

It’s not nostalgic; it’s haunted. The piece doesn’t recreate the 1980s—it resurrects the ghosts of its machines.

The accidental poetry of decay...

This Window has always occupied that liminal zone between post‑industrial, sound‑art, and lo‑fi experimentation. The Cock fits squarely into that tradition, but with a clarity of intent that makes it feel like a summation of decades of practice. It’s a reminder that the underground wasn’t just a scene—it was a method, a way of listening.