“Those were first passes at chord progressions you’ve been playing your whole teenage life.” “I was so optimistic about the tools I had,” Hecker, 48, said. His ideas were inchoate, his approach innocent. He was an Ottawa civil servant then who had just finished a master’s in political philosophy and was making music on the weekends from his basement home. 1” - a deep cut from his obscure 2001 debut that sounds like a glass harp routed through a dial-up modem - had six million streams, far more than everything else in the Top 10 combined, he chuckled. Was it “ Chimeras,” the electronic musician guessed by phone before a recent Berlin performance, selecting a 2006 piece where prickles of electric guitar scatter like a galaxy around a lulling beat? (Not in the Top 10.) He tried “ Sketch 3,” an 80-second piano reverie he considered “an oddball.” Closer, in second place. Tim Hecker could not name his most streamed song on Spotify, even after several guesses.
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