Born: 1974
Location: Canada
Tim Hecker is a Canadian electronic musician, producer, composer, and sound artist. His work, spanning albums such as Harmony in Ultraviolet (2006), Ravedeath, 1972 (2011) and Virgins (2013), has been widely critically acclaimed. He has released eleven albums and a number of EPs in addition to a number of film scores and collaborations with artists such as Arca, Ben Frost, Jóhann Jóhannsson, Daniel Lopatin, and Aidan Baker.
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Ahead of Tim Hecker's return to Australia for the ΩHM Festival of Other Music, The Music caught up with the Canadian musician for a chat about inspiration.
"An experiment on how we experience music and how our other senses can play a role in what we feel about a performance."
"If it really has a theme of love, then Cupid is horribly doomed."
Hecker left the Melbourne crowd in a meditative state
Ben Frost provided Sydney with a majestic display of sensory overload.
It possesses great potential when married with concerns of site-specificity. Oh yeah, and it may just be Hecker’s best!
Too often though, it merely exists: a slow pulse, too busy to be meditative and too repetitious to fully engage with. By itself it’s fine, but it seems a little incomplete after the primordial Hecker.