This Window

Creating strategic alliances between companies or individuals enables shared goals to be achieved for mutual benefit. You don’t need to be a large organisation to gain from cooperation; sometimes big fish need smaller fish to help develop ideas and strategies. Get out there and find a partner. During the summer of 2009, Windows and ReverbNation formed a strategic alliance that enabled independent musicians and artists to give away their music for free while still being paid through sponsorship. This was a radical “win–win” business model: the sponsor, Windows , embedded advertising into the cover artwork of the downloadable MP3, and the artist received payment. Although the payment per download was lower than platforms such as iTunes or Amazon, the value in exposure and reaching a wider audience was generous compensation. Participating artists were later given the opportunity to allow their “Sponsored Song” to continue as a free download in a new arch...

A little belief in superstition and myth can help create new music. Newspaper horoscopes are based on star signs and birth dates. They predict what will happen during the day, and those predictions rely on probability and randomness. If you read your horoscope in the morning, you might turn it into a self-fulfilling prophecy: you could go looking for the “tall, dark, handsome man,” or decide to take a “long journey.” Or, you might read it late in the evening and then interpret what happened that day through its mystical language—“Yes, I did meet someone important today.” The interesting part is this: you could meet that “tall, dark, handsome man,” take a “long journey,” and meet someone important—without ever reading your horoscope at all. So, did the horoscope really predict anything, or were those outcomes simply coincidence? Does this mean the day’s events were not predicted? I find it difficult to create new material because I’m constantly aware that I’...

Art Kitchen Exhibition — Tuscaloosa, Alabama (2012) In February 2012, a recycled mail‑art postcard by This Window was exhibited at The Alabama Art Kitchen , an artist‑run collective based at 2626 University Blvd., Tuscaloosa, Alabama . The piece originally served as promotional artwork for the 2009 digital release Cassette Culture , and features a photograph of Marni De Much , drummer on the limited‑edition Morgue Studio Demos CDR. The Alabama Art Kitchen operated throughout the early 2010s as a volunteer‑driven space offering studios, workshops, exhibitions, and community arts events. Although the physical venue is no longer active in its original form, many of the artists involved continue to contribute to Tuscaloosa’s independent creative scene through pop‑up shows and collaborative projects that grew out of the collective. Recycled Artwork and the Extractivism Series The postcard exhibited in Alabama was later reused as the visual anchor for the Extractivism series on Bandcamp —...

A Veteran of the Underground, Still Breaking Ground For decades, This Window has operated far from the mainstream — born in the cassette‑culture underground, shaped by DIY production, and defined by a stubborn refusal to conform. The project has cycled through eras of post‑industrial noise, minimal synth, darkwave atmospherics, and lo‑fi experimentation, always prioritising texture, mood, and emotional undercurrents over commercial polish. That history matters here. Because today’s chart success isn’t a fluke — it’s the culmination of years spent cultivating a sound that resists trends yet somehow outlasts them. This Is War by This Window Discover the world of This Window on Bandcamp — free, paid, or name‑your‑price. Dive into decades of experimental sound: from cassette‑culture fragments to sculpted digital pieces. Try the Hopeless compilations for free, explore singles like Lay Back , or support the project directly with albums such as This Is War . Start listening: https://thiswi...

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...

Extraction 1989 – This Window A review: "Extraction 1989 is one of those releases that reminds you exactly why the UK’s cassette‑culture underground mattered. It’s not nostalgia; it’s the shock of hearing a project at the moment its language crystallises. This Window’s 1989 tape—now reissued from the original master—captures a shift from raw DIY abrasion toward something more atmospheric, more deliberate, and more quietly unsettling." Extraction — originally released by EE Tapes (ET06) in 1989 — returns here as a digital transfer from the original master tape . The material itself has a strangely archaeological quality: fragments literally gathered from the studio floor, lengths of ¼” tape spliced together , threaded through whatever machines were at hand, and mixed in a semi‑random, instinctive manner. Some of these sounds reach even further back, with source elements dating to 1978 . This download is sourced from the original master. Downloads Extraction pt.1 has bee...