I've got Ph.D. just because I enjoyed reading and writing and didn't know what else to do. It was something fun to do. Like it seems self-evident that I'm a musician now, but it's a really hard path. It's almost… — Tim Hecker Copy Share Image
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. — 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
