Tim Hecker

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going…

— Tim Hecker

Offness yields a hypnotic effect. The brain can see simplistic patterns that lock and it's boring after a while. I don't cater…

— Tim Hecker

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…

— Tim Hecker

I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I…

— Tim Hecker

You have to make rough decisions with sequencing and work within the limitations of having good audio for 15 minutes on a…

— Tim Hecker

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

— Tim Hecker

I'm not an anti-online person. I get what the modern world's about and I understand that that's the nature of music dissemination.

— Tim Hecker

My peer network is international. It's people all over the place who I know, and respect their work. It's not really delineated…

— Tim Hecker

I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind…

— Tim Hecker

I've been playing music all my life. I wasn't really fostered in a musical family, it was something I did despite the…

— Tim Hecker

Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that…

— Tim Hecker

People still talk about sampling as this new, progressive problem in music. There are technologies now where you can glean the polyphonic…

— Tim Hecker

If I was completely satisfied with an album, I'd probably give it up, because that'd mean I had attained some kind of…

— Tim Hecker

I wouldn't say I'm ego-less, but I'd say there's something uncomfortable about the presentation of one's self in the media. Any image…

— Tim Hecker

I work with digital audio, which is like sculpting, a form of chiseling down metal or wood. And I take audio and…

— Tim Hecker

I've always thought that each album would be my last one, and then I would be out of ideas and I would…

— Tim Hecker

I wouldn't say that I'm a consummate live artist. Album work is kind of just like quilt weaving or something. But live…

— Tim Hecker

I don't feel like music is getting more intense; I think generally the channel for deeper harmonic saturation is not just a…

— Tim Hecker

I try to structure albums in a pattern, like in a way where there's a motif that runs throughout or some kind…

— Tim Hecker

For me it's the hypnotic simplistic reduction of hooks into some form of prayer wheel or something. I really appreciate people who…

— Tim Hecker

We should do an Adorno reading on Skrillex and vodka sales in Vegas. It's definitely interesting. What's interesting in that music for…

— Tim Hecker

I definitely enjoy liturgical work and choral work from the 15th century and 16th century, but I play in churches with a…

— Tim Hecker

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…

— Tim Hecker

I really support criticism as a craft and as a vocation. People who devote as much time to thinking about sound through…

— Tim Hecker

I'm trying to find a way to make music work as a living. People used to make their living selling albums. Those…

— Tim Hecker

Sometimes it's a fraught, kind of laden world of performance that I think can be really dubious, but it's also super fun…

— Tim Hecker

You start to think, when you're finishing a record, in twelve- to fourteen-minute chunks. At a certain point, you do write to…

— Tim Hecker

I did dance music for a short period of time but I felt like the fruit for me was in the outer…

— Tim Hecker

Once you have MIDI information - I mean, it's a bit technical - that's your paint. You can slow down, pitch up,…

— Tim Hecker

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…

— 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…

— Tim Hecker

I've always said my records are these failures of not getting where I want them to go, they end up detouring somewhere…

— Tim Hecker

I'm not a nostalgic person for the glory days of 8-track sales at the local K-Mart. But there's a little bit of…

— Tim Hecker

Vinyl's just a fun endgame step. I work with analogue signal chains too, but the mp3 is the way I listen to…

— Tim Hecker

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

— Tim Hecker

I definitely road test music. I'll drive in the car and look up at the sky and that often makes it more…

— Tim Hecker

It depends on what kind of minimalism you're talking about, of course. I love both those artists - Brian Eno and William…

— Tim Hecker

There have always been people making music. On their porches, playing folk songs. Playing piano in quiet salons. You don't have to…

— Tim Hecker

You can't be sure there's not a God, so why live your life in hatred or the denial of that. It's better…

— Tim Hecker