Tim Hecker Quotes

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• 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.

  Tim Hecker

  Want, Spirit, Stay True

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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

  World, Modern, Online

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 limitations put on me. It was a series of misshapes and failures and things that didn't work out and other opportunities that kind of presented themselves. I just followed a journey.

  Tim Hecker

  Opportunity, Journey, Work Out

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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.

  Tim Hecker

  Moving, Thinking, Choices

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I work with digital audio, which is like sculpting, a form of chiseling down metal or wood. And I take audio and move it back and forth between the analog and digital realms and work with it almost like a plastic art until it takes forms in different shapes. And I use those figurines that come out of that type of work.

  Tim Hecker

  Art, Moving, Different

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Tim Hecker

  Stuff, Digital, Vinyl

  Source: thequietus.com

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• If I was completely satisfied with an album, I'd probably give it up, because that'd mean I had attained some kind of state that was greater than I'd ever hope, so I think I'd just give it up. But I don't think that's going to happen.

  Tim Hecker

  Mean, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm really sensitive to the beginning of a motif or a phrase or something that's kind of the backbone or becomes kind of the spine that you grow muscle tissue onto. You know from that, if you have that good beginning, it's like everything that grows off it often has potential. Maybe I'm good at that early bit of recognition of pieces of potential. I'm not sure.

  Tim Hecker

  Recognition, Kind, Sensitive

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 over! It's kind of an odd time. I guess it's kind of like writing.

  Tim Hecker

  Writing, People, Trying

  Source: therumpus.net

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

  Tim Hecker

  Writing, Enjoy

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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 to be open to the possibility of it. Just because the whole conceit of scientism... is that our world is explained by two atoms smashing, right? Our green planet came out of that. But I just don't buy where the original line comes back to, those two atoms. The explanations aren't fully in yet.

  Tim Hecker

  Hatred, Live Your Life, Denial

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 just like a method of emptying out the mind through volume. Volume as a form that allows you to do different things. And that doesn't really translate to recorded music, like how do you listen to that, on Spotify or in your car? It's not the same kind of effect. I would say that the loudness is a huge part of what I do live.

  Tim Hecker

  Artist, Car, Mind

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• It depends on what kind of minimalism you're talking about, of course. I love both those artists - Brian Eno and William Basinski. I would say my minimalism references are early American minimalists from the 70s.

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  Artist, Kind, Minimalism

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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 desecrate an instrument that for 500 years has been associated with God.

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Thinking, Years

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 under my house.

  Tim Hecker

  Oil, House, Gold

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 that informs it in a general way. Maybe it's in a harmonic key. I like to go metastructural sometimes, like look at more than the three-minute passage and how that interacts with other pieces. And I've been increasingly interested in false starts and fraudulent beginnings, and things that don't reach their implied conclusions. I take an album and I kind of start moving things around like Jenga.

  Tim Hecker

  Running, Moving, Trying

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• 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 nationalist ideas.

  Tim Hecker

  Ideas, People, Peers

  Source: thequietus.com

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

  Tim Hecker

  Decision, Audio, Sides

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Working with devices and guitar pedals and mixers and synthesizers is what I do, and I prefer people not focus on that because it's kind of distracting from what the point should be. At least for me, it's to have the primacy of aurality in the experience of that evening.

  Tim Hecker

  Guitar, People, Focus

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Tim Hecker

  Writing, Thinking, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Tim Hecker

  Fun, Mp3, Way

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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.

  Tim Hecker

  Fall, Thinking, World

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 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?

  Tim Hecker

  Religious, Atheist, Angel

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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

  Tim Hecker

  Musician, Downloads

  Source: thequietus.com

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• 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 flattery and a little bit of horror. It's a mixture. It's like sublime shock and awe, but also terror. That's always the way I feel about how music flows through those types of networks. I'm mostly cool with it, but I definitely appreciate when people support the work.

  Tim Hecker

  People, Track, Appreciate

  Source: thequietus.com

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