I’ve been listening to Tim Hecker for years now. His work is continually exciting to me. It’s beautiful, overpowering, amazingly intricate, expansive. I’ve got a lot of his stuff and I’ve been lucky enough to see him play live a few times as well. Every performance I’ve been to has been one of those times when the hairs on my arms stand on end. There’s something about his sound that digs deep into me when he plays. Kind of like this rush of euphoria. There’s a gorgeous and fascinating sadness in the work at the same time that there’s a transcendent glow and an uplifting beauty. It’s refined, as it is raw and powerful. I’ve a made a mixtape of some his stuff. If it hits the spot, I urge you to check out more. Hope you enjoy.
Bio
Tim Hecker is a Canadian-based musician and sound artist, born in Vancouver. Since 1996, he has produced a range of audio works for Kranky, Alien8, Mille Plateaux, Room40, Force Inc, Staalplaat, and Fat Cat. His works have been described as “structured ambient”, “tectonic color plates” and “cathedral electronic music”. More to the point, he has focused on exploring the intersection of noise, dissonance and melody, fostering an approach to songcraft which is both physical and emotive. The New York Times has described his work as “foreboding, abstract pieces in which static and sub-bass rumbles open up around slow moving notes and chords, like fissures in the earth waiting to swallow them whole”. His Harmony in Ultraviolet received critical acclaim, including being recognized by Pitchfork as a top recording of 2006. Radio Amor was also recognized as a key recording of 2003 by Wire magazine. His work has also included commissions for contemporary dance, sound-art installations, as well as various writings. He currently resides in Montreal.
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Amps, Drugs, Mellotron
Chimeras
Black Refraction
Stab Variation
Dungeoneering
The Piano Drop
The Work Of Art In The Age Of Cultural Overproduction
acephale/neither more nor less
The Return of Sam Snead
Borderlands
Norberg
& Daniel Lopatin - Uptown Psychedelia
& Daniel Lopatin - Intrusions
Virginal II / The Piano Drop - 2012 Pitchfork Music Festival
Isis + Tim Hecker - Live Improvised Collaboration
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p.s. Hey. If you don't already know the incredible musical works of Tim Hecker, you'll have no excuse other than lack of curiosity once your eyes have fallen upon this helpful and cogent guest-post by the ultra-noteworthy writer and generous d.l. Thomas 'Moronic' Moore. Get down, won't you? Thanks ever so much, T! ** Tuesday ** David Ehrenstein, Hi. Ah, marginality, that most subjective of tags. I just read a really fine piece by Sacks in TNY about the end of Spalding Gray's life. He wrote so very well. ** Sypha, That makes sense. I prefer by phone because the opportunity to be super-clear ends up taking me forever. Enjoy the almost nothing at all? ** James, Nice! The NYC trip, I mean. If you want stay in small hotel rooms, go to Tokyo. They're nice, though. I hope I have that LA opportunity. The director of the film you asked Me. E about is also one of the producers of Zac's and my film. And he has a small role in it too. ** Keaton, You must have very strong legs. London is massive, almost too massive in some weird, wrong way for my taste. Oh, nice, about the job. Well, if that's true about Cleveland, then I guess that's very good for you, you being you, right? ** Steevee, Seems right. ** Thomas Moronic, Thanks, personally, and hugs, again for the Hecker shebang! ** Cal Graves, Wow, that's a good name mutation. Thanks! Oh, I see, about that guy. So, in that workshop, other people read your work aloud? That's interesting. I've never heard of that before. Ha! Swervingly, Dennis. ** _Black_Acrylic, I hope you're enjoying Leeds, Benster! Oh, Marc Almond. What is he doing live? A retrospective thing or a specific thing? Oh, wait, he has new album out, I think, doesn't he? Then I guess he'll do that plus select oldies, I presume. ** Kier, Ha ha, denmark, ha ha. So simple but so complex. I've never seen a single frame of 'Game of Thrones', isn't that weird? I didn't know of any of those horror films you reviewed. I want to see all those films too. And 'The Babadook'. Now that France has Netflix, I really need to join that. Oh, let's see ... I guess I'll do both day reports, such as they are, right here? I guess so, if I can remember. Uh, on Tuesday I think I just started packing/discarding stuff for the move and all of that, but I wasn't really in the mood, so I have to start kicking ass doing that today. I finished writing up my initial notes and script ideas for Zac's and my next film, and I gave them to him, and he read them yesterday, and we're going to talk about them today. What else ... oh, Gisele wanted Zac and me to see a theater piece because she said she had this flash idea of he and I writing a solo theater piece for her about a clown who does magic tricks starring the guy whose solo show she wanted us to see. She said he was a magician clown. So, we went. And it was really terrible. I was watching it thinking Gisele must have been on acid when she saw it or something. Also, he wasn't a magician clown but more like a show-off-y mime. It was confusing. Then, afterwards, I called her and said, 'What?!' She confessed that she'd never a magic show before and thought his was good, but I told her it was neither a magic show nor good, and she saw what I meant, so now she's over the clown magician solo piece idea. Yesterday, we did that audition all day. We were auditioning this young dancer, Sylvain, whom we'd audition six years ago for another part. We'd thought he was amazing back then, but the part wasn't right. Anyway, within five minutes of starting the audition yesterday, we knew was perfect. So we spent all day teaching him the role. He was incredible. 'Kindertotenlieder' is my favorite of Gisele's and my works, and I love it as it is, but, with Sylvain in it, I think it's going even much, much stronger. So that was exciting. He was so good that Gisele also cast him on the spot for this adaptation of Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' that she/we will be doing next year. Plus, he's a lovely guy. It was a very successful day. Otherwise, after some uploading issues, Zac finally got our film to the producers who will now submit it to four film festivals. And I think that's the totality (of sorts) of my last two days. What did today unfold for you? ** Flit, Hi, Flit! Fuck that machine's persnickety-ness! Did that help? ** Misanthrope, Hi, G. I guess I'm not totally surprised that you knew Horsepussy. Not totally. Putting the usual friend count of Facebook aside for a moment, having 32 friends is pretty good. That's a lot of friends. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Yeah, ha ha, re: Horsepussy's site. I was like, 'That's extreme'? I guess I'm tragically jaded. Sigh, indeed. I already miss this place. My eyes saw IKEA too. What is ISEA? Wait, I'll google it. ** Wednesday ** _Black_Acrylic, Hi, Ben. You get the new issues of The Wire so quick over there. I'm jealous. It takes about two weeks for them to get here. ** David Ehrenstein, Hi, sir. ** Steevee, Hi, also sir. That's very strange about the Stokoe situation. I don't know anything about his issues with Akashic, but I've barely been in touch with them for a while now. So, it was released in the States, but only within a tiny frame? I don't understand. ** G.r. maierhofer, Hi, dGranty. Oh, very sweet about the Fanzine excerpt. I'm excited to read it! Everyone, very fine writer Grant Maierhofer has had a chunk of his highly anticipated very forthcoming novel 'Marcel' published at the ever-awesome Fanzine. Go jump the gun and gift yourself. Oh, yeah, get in contact with me after the first of the month, and I'll give you my new mailing address. Awesome, thanks! ** Magick mike, Hi, Mike! Awesome! I'm so glad you like it and that the blog could do its part! ** Kier, Ha ha, another crazy good name thing. My name is like the word that keeps on giving, or whatever they say. You saw and got to spend oodles of high quality time with Silja! And with Lucifer! Wow, so nice! Yay! I gave you both of my recent day reports up in the Tuesday section. Now I'll try to do and give you something for tomorrow. Love, me. ** Flit, I'm going to get those. ** James, Hi. The Fama book is truly wonderful. He's a really good poet. Cool. I got very little packing done due to procrastination, but I have to really, really get into packing, etc. today, as much as I dread it. ** Misanthrope, I was drafted for Vietnam when I was ... what, 18, 19? It was terrifying. I consulted with a lawyer, and he said that using the gay out was not that reliable, and that, depending on the mood/attitude of the person at the draft board, they could go, 'I don't care that you're gay, you're drafted'. So I used the excuse of my having a bad back instead. Which worked. ** Cal Graves, Oh, gosh, thanks, Cal. It's a total honor to be in position to be able to do that. ** Thomas Moronic, 'The Motion' is terrific. ** Bill, Hi, Bill. Thanks. Yes, I need to get the new Millhauser. That's exciting. How's it going, maestro? ** Okay. I'm caught up. Let's start again. But, first, why don't you listen to some Tim Hecker, eh? Seem like a plan? See you tomorrow.