This Window

 Philips EL1976/00 Dynamic Microphone This Philips EL1976/00 was recently rediscovered in a garden shed, decades after first being supplied with a Philips reel‑to‑reel tape machine. Its original wiring has now been replaced with coaxial cable and a 1/4" jack plug, giving the microphone a new lease of life in the studio. Despite its modest design, this mic has become a reliable choice for recording vocals. Its naturally narrow dynamic range lends itself to rough, raw vocal takes—perfect for capturing ideas quickly or adding a gritty, unpolished character to a track. The Philips EL1976/00 is a compact dynamic table microphone produced around 1970 by Philips in Eindhoven. Designed for use with Philips tape recorders and other domestic audio equipment, it reflects the company’s move toward lightweight, modern plastics rather than earlier bakelite or catalin housings. The microphone has a distinctive small block shape, slightly leaning backwards when placed on a surface. On t...

Solace Dead Heart is a new visual piece created as an homage to the collage and assemblage work of Robert Rauschenberg . His approach to layering fragments, distressed textures, found materials and half‑erased memories has always resonated with the ethos of This Window . This video follows that lineage: a drifting collage of surfaces, glitches, shadows and emotional residue, 8mm home movie, stitched together in a way that feels fragile. Listen to more The soundtrack is an excerpt from a longer electronic composition that will appear on a new This Window release in 2027 . The full piece moves through cold pulses, analogue drift, and slow‑burn tension, but this short extract captures the heart of it — a sense of suspended time, mechanical breath, and the quiet ache of repetition. Solace Dissected Sonically, the track sits somewhere between synthwave minimalism , goth electronics and darkwave a...

2027 is shaping up to be a landmark year for This Window . If everything continues on schedule, TW will unveil a major new release across all streaming platforms — the most ambitious digital launch to date. This upcoming release marks a significant step forward, bringing decades of underground experimentation into a fully modern distribution landscape and opening the door to a wider global audience. You can still download our music for free on Bandcamp This Window has a long history of releasing music across Europe and the USA, with formats ranging from vinyl and cassette to CD and modern streaming platforms. The catalogue includes material recorded for Microsoft, Beggars Banquet and other labels. This Window  is a hybrid space where sound, poetry, art-thinking, experimental method, and deliberate absurdity coexist. The poetic side provides intuition, metaphor, and atmosphere; the artistic side shapes form, perspective, and texture; the scientific impulse contr...

...from Extractivism , track released April 28, 2026. An excerpt from This Window, recorded at Morgue Studios in 2026. “Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds” Musically, it occupies the borderlands where darkwave, minimal synth, post‑industrial and experimental gothic overlap. The foundation is a slow, deliberate pulse: brooding synth beds, cold atmospheres, and vocals that lean toward spoken word rather than song. The arrangement stays sparse and intentional — minimal electronics, icy textures, and non‑pop structures that echo the ethos of the 1980s cassette‑culture underground. Extractivism by This Window Listen on Bandcamp “Gone Like the Whispers of Silent Clouds” unfolds like a drifting, half‑remembered dream — a fragment that feels discovered rather than composed, as if recovered from a damaged tape. The video blends AI‑generated imagery with Super 8 home‑movie fragments, forming a collage that ...

This track is about how, when relationships turn sour, criticism sometimes becomes the weapon of choice. When relationships turn sour, criticism often mutates into something far more corrosive than simple disagreement. It stops being a way to understand each other and becomes a way to score hits, a quiet kind of warfare waged in kitchens, bedrooms, and text threads. What once was tenderness turns tactical; every flaw becomes evidence, every misstep a chance to reclaim ground that feels lost. People who once protected each other’s soft spots start aiming for them instead, not always out of malice but out of fear — fear of losing control, fear of being the one who cared more, fear of admitting the hurt underneath. And so criticism becomes the weapon of choice: easy to reach for, quick to deploy, and devastating in its accuracy, because no one knows where to cut like someone who once loved you. ...

This snippet from an interview reveals the experimental methodology of This Window. Early encounters with Roxy Music’s art‑school disruption and The Faust Tapes ’ radical tape collage showed that sound could be treated as raw material — something to manipulate, fracture, and rebuild. These moments shaped a way of working where process mattered as much as outcome. As the project developed, modest home‑taping equipment became central to that approach. A reel‑to‑reel and budget cassette recorder encouraged experimentation through limitation, turning noise, accidents, and mechanical quirks into creative tools. This introduction sets the stage for understanding how those formative influences evolved into the distinctive, hands‑on methods explored throughout this article. Extraction 1989 by This Window Published on: The Living Archive of Underground Music " If you sat me down and asked me what were the main reasons for getting involved in this emotionally draining and so...