Tim Hecker is a Canadian composer, born in Vancouver on 17 July 1974, who first released techno as Jetone before turning, with Haunt Me, Haunt Me Do It Again (2001), to dense, saturated ambient music. Harmony in Ultraviolet (Kranky, 2006) consolidated a style in which melody and noise are smeared into the same glowing mass.
Ravedeath, 1972 (2011), his breakthrough, was built largely from pipe organ recorded in a church in Reykjavík with Ben Frost, then processed until the instrument seems to crumble. Later records moved to 4AD with Love Streams (2016), and Konoyo (2018) was made with members of the Tokyo Gakuso ensemble, whose gagaku instruments, such as the shō and hichiriki, replace the organ as raw material. He has also scored films, including Brandon Cronenberg’s Infinity Pool (2023), and wrote a doctoral thesis on urban noise at McGill University.