Tim Hecker Lecture (Montréal 2016) | Red Bull Music Academy

He’s performed in fog-filled rooms and made ageing churches rattle in his adopted hometown of Montréal. Tim Hecker’s eight-album career has been about stepping into the dense smoke to find beauty and light. While his earlier work could be considered in the drone realm, 2016’s Love Streams, released on 4AD, finds him inching away from the submerging style he’s been known for these past 15 years with choral elements emerging from the static. In his 2016 Red Bull Music Academy lecture, Hecker speaks about the