Florian Hecker (born 1975 in Augsburg, lives and works in Vienna) is a German artist whose works across synthetic sound, installation, and performance consider sensory perception and the audience's auditory experience. In his sound installations and live performances, Hecker deals with specific compositional developments of post-war modernity, electro-acoustic music, and other, non-musical disciplines. He dramatizes space, time and self-perception in his sonic works by isolating specific auditory events in their singularity, thus stretching the boundaries of their materialization. Their objectual autonomy is exposed while simultaneously evoking sensations, memories, and associations in an immersive intensity.
He has collaborated with artists and authors including Aphex Twin,
Cerith Wyn Evans,
Russell Haswell,
Mark Leckey, Robin Mackay, Reza Negarestani, and
Yasunao Tone.
