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This Window releases – still available to download

You can only eat so many Easter Eggs and drink so much Coke.

Cassette Culture 1989 – 2009 by This Window is still available to download.

Cassette Culture was an offshoot of the mail art movement of the 1970s and 1980s, it emerged from the DIY ethic of punk. Compact Cassettes, were the way that home recording artists distributed their ART. Cassettes consisted of two miniature spools, between which magnetically coated plastic tape was transported. In the UK cassette culture was born during the post-punk period, 1978–1984, extending through the late ’80s and into the ’90s. It was a postal-based network identical to the mail art scene.  Continue reading ?

How do you make something that had two physical sides have no sides at all?

Free print download


It makes me sneeze!
Originally uploaded by This Window

This image is a version of a lithograph I did in 1978. To download it (high resolution) click on the image. This print was manipulated using Photoshop in 2002 and exhibited in 2004. The original lithograph, which is framed and signed is for sale at £85.00. If you want to buy it contact me.

If you download it, print it off and then mail it to me I will sign it and return it if you send me the postage costs.

During the 1980’s I was involved with the Mail Art scene. Mail art is a worldwide cultural movement that began in the early 1960s and involves sending visual art (but also music, sound art, poetry, etc.) through the international postal system. Mail Art is also known as Postal Art or Correspondence Art. The term networking is often used to describe Mail Art activities, based on the principles of barter and equal one-to-one collaboration.
After a peak in popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Mail Art phenomenon has gradually migrated to the Internet, whose “social networks” were largely anticipated and predicted by the interactive processes of postal collaborations. Nevertheless, Mail Art is still practiced in the new Millennium by a loose planetary community involving thousands of mailartists from the most varied backgrounds.
Q U O T E : “The perfect conduit for This Window’s music and art was the Cassette Culture and Mail Art scenes. These networks of artists and musicians encouraged an early form of open source cooperation, with projects being shared and created. This methodology fitted in with This Window’s approach to creativity.”

above from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Window


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With the demise of the 7digital indiestore service shutting down on in September 2010 viable alternatives for free mp3 downloads are abundant.

Try this one out M4tr Productions. Fill in your email address into the form and you will receive ‘A moment Longer‘ by This Window.

If you can recommend another free download site we will give it a try – leave your comment and recommendations below.

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