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Tim Hecker is an electronic musician from Montreal (Canada) that belongs to
the school of ambient glitch-electronica.
Haunt Me Haunt Me Do It Again (Alien8, 2001) and
the EP My Love Is Rotten To The Core (Alien8, 2002)
manipulate samples and field recordings.
Music for Tundra and Arctic Lover's Rock, off the album,
do more than mimick Oval and
Pan Sonic: they positively create a
soundscape and an aesthetics by layering cliches into organic, romantic creatures.
Presents Radio Amor (Mille Plateaux, 2003 - Alien 8, 2007) is a more mature
statement that digs into the natural texture of the sounds that the composer is
artificially producing
(Song of the Highwire Shrimper).
His techno and hip-hop project Jetone released
Autumnmonia (Pitch Cadet, 2000), which contains the charming
Shear/refract,
and Ultramarin (Force Inc, 2001), which contains Phoedra IV.
Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky, 2006) does little to ingratiate the
method (basically, a modern reworking of the ancient experiments of
musique concrete). It occasionally does create ominous atmospheres:
the dense floating mass of Stags Aircraft Kings and Secretaries,
the fibrillating metallic spiderweb of Dungeoneering,
the distorted glissando-like transmission of Radio Spiricom,
the violent melodic warping of Whitecaps of White Noise I,
and the four watery parts of Harmony in Blue.
But they mostly remain isolated icebergs of unemotional matter, no matter
how interesting the sonic qualities can be.
The shorter pieces, then, sound perfectly redundant.
Hecker fails to tell a story. His music sounds like the equivalent of the
craftsman who lays his tools on the table. Hecker neglects the next step:
building something with those tools.
The 10" mini-album Atlas One (Audraglint, 2007) offered one of
his best "concrete" symphonies.
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