Quotes by Tim Hecker

Tim Hecker

Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don’t have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don’t want to go there. I don’t see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.

Spirit

Stay True

Want

For me it’s the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who can work in those quiet environments making really precious latticework like lace in a weaving but, for me, I like it a bit more hairy and like psychedelic Peruvian knits or something! You know what I mean? I go into fabric analogies, you know.

Appreciate

Mean

Prayer

I definitely enjoy liturgical work and choral work from the 15th century and 16th century, but I play in churches with a bit of trepidation, and it’s not something I enjoy because there are all these problems. It’s an implication that you’re part of the theological apparatus, like for atheists or something, and I don’t like that. I like playing with the form, inhabiting the tropes of religious music without that promise of angels at the end. It can be awkward, you know?

Angel

Atheist

Religious

I definitely road test music. I’ll drive in the car and look up at the sky and that often makes it more clear, like what’s good and what’s not. Driving in darkness is amazing, because you really feel the energy and what has presence, spirit to it, and what doesn’t.

Car

Darkness

Energy

I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer dance world so I stopped doing overt techno and I think, in terms of rhythm, I enjoy things that feel like they’re falling off, like they’re just barely holding on.

Fall

Thinking

World

I don’t feel like music is getting more intense; I think generally the channel for deeper harmonic saturation is not just a sine wave – but a really crunched sine wave. The trend in music is towards a harmonic saturation. I wouldn’t say I’m reacting against that. It’s just a personal choice to move into some weird space. This also allows me breathing room in the future. It just felt like the right thing to step back on.

Choices

Moving

Thinking

I download music just like anybody else, but it’s a weird relationship when you’re a musician.

Downloads

Musician

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey – the world’s loudest and biggest pipe organ.

Reading

Study

Writing

I love vinyl, but I’m not a ‘vinyl person’. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

Digital

Stuff

Vinyl

I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through writing as I do practicing and forming it, the whole system of journalism seems to not yield rewards sustainable as a craft. So few can spend enough time to be serious about it and approach it with confidence and a kind of depth. And that’s good on one level, because you have some leveling, that’s kind of maybe leveled the petty fiefdoms of undeserving people but it’s also made it hard to make a living as a writer.

People

Thinking

Writing

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Angel

Appreciate

Art

Artist

Atheist

Attention

Audio

Boring

Brain

Car

Choices

Crazy

Darkness

Decision

Denial

Differences

Different

Digital

Disappointment

Downloads

Energy

Enjoy

Fall

Focus

Fun

Giving

Gold

Guitar

Hatred

House

Ideas

Interesting

Journey

Kind

Live Your Life

Long

Mean

Mind

Minimalism

Modern

Moving

Mp3

Musician

Oil

Online

Opportunity

Peers

People

Photography

Piano

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Quotes by Tim Hecker

Tim Hecker

Because I refuse to perform my music in a traditional sense of instrumentation, I don’t have an amazing live stage spectacle to provide, and I don’t want to go there. I don’t see how the music would stay true to the spirit of the work.

I definitely road test music. I’ll drive in the car and look up at the sky and that often makes it more clear, like what’s good and what’s not. Driving in darkness is amazing, because you really feel the energy and what has presence, spirit to it, and what doesn’t.

I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer dance world so I stopped doing overt techno and I think, in terms of rhythm, I enjoy things that feel like they’re falling off, like they’re just barely holding on.

I download music just like anybody else, but it’s a weird relationship when you’re a musician.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey – the world’s loudest and biggest pipe organ.

I love vinyl, but I’m not a ‘vinyl person’. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital.

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