There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to listen to every MySpace page, so what's the difference? It's just noise that you filter out. — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I work with digital audio, which is like sculpting, a form of chiseling down metal or wood. And I take audio and move it… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun to almost… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
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… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those days are… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
We should do an Adorno reading on Skrillex and vodka sales in Vegas. It's definitely interesting. What's interesting in that music for me is… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
There's a limit of any form of representation; it's the same about writing about visual art. I still think it's useful for people to… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic information out… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through writing as… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live music is… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I've been playing music all my life. I wasn't really fostered in a musical family, it was something I did despite the kind of… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I definitely enjoy liturgical work and choral work from the 15th century and 16th century, but I play in churches with a bit of… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I love vinyl, but I'm not a 'vinyl person'. I still collect, but most of my stuff is digital. — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated by traditional… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
I try to structure albums in a pattern, like in a way where there's a motif that runs throughout or some kind of conceit… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
