Ephemera of Tim Hecker
Existing during the recording of Virgins
(Kranky // Paper Bag Records)
Montréal, QC
::web/sounds::
[Photos: Tania Maria Elisa]

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From the constant plasticity of Christina Bell:

Intricate electronic sound experimentation is the lifeblood of Tim Hecker’s ambient creations. His most recent release, Virgins, is an album composed with the refined musicality of an academic that also effectively taps into an aural world of static-drenched, emotionally charged, melodic noise. As a result of the involved process of treating and re-treating sound, the whole album steadily resonates with a majestic and eerie luminosity. Weird Canada met up with Hecker to explore some of the ways in which the physical world inherently shapes his final product.

 

Tim Hecker – Virginal I

Tim Hecker – Black Refraction

 

Tupac

I have this picture of Tupac over my speakers. When I’m doing a mix or something, I actually look at the speakers to zone in on the sound and when I look up, he’s always peripheral, just out of the plane of vision. His eyes are sort of floating too [Ed: Think the Mona Lisa], so it always encourages me to not step back [from what I’m doing], but push it because [the picture] makes me … Read More »