Tim Hecker (Montreal)
Saturday, November 28, 2015; 8PM
Free pre-show chat at 7:15PM
The Annex (823 Seymour Street, 2nd Floor) [map]
Tickets $35/$15 (includes taxes and venue surcharges) – single tickets on sale September 1, 2015.

Tim Hecker presents new works-in-progress partly derived from the early choral works of Franco-Flemish Renaissance-era composer Josquin, among other influences. Hecker reimagines these sounds for synthesizer, computer and guitar amplifiers.

Hecker’s music inhabits a unique intersection between noise, dissonance, and melody. In his varied and celebrated works, digital and organic sources tightly intertwine. The result is a hybrid aesthetic that recalls electronic abstraction and psychedelic minimalism. Hecker purposefully obfuscates the clear tonal distinctions of traditional instrumentation, preferring to cultivate enigmatic, uneasy soundscapes. The beauty and crush of Hecker’s sonically processed noise has been compared to “tectonic colour plates” and “cathedral electronic music.”

“[Hecker creates] 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.” – New York Times

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