ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Imogen Heap - Musician
Imogen Heap's aching voice and surprising electronics infuse countless videos and iPods with bone-chilling atmospherics.

Why you should listen

Classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap finds her muse in unlikely places. She's mined sonic mystery from sources ranging from cardboard tubes to cheap samplers to the data gloves--not to mention her own vocal cords.

A relentless experimenter, Heap's latest song cycle is built around some 900 fan-submitted "sound seeds," or samples of everyday sounds. The first six of these "Heapsongs" have been released via her website, and include the lovely "Propeller Seeds," inspired by a chance meeting at a past TEDGlobal. During 2012's TEDGlobal she recorded a song in various locations around Edinburgh, "anywhere that has a piano and they let me turn up with a microphone." She has also composed the orchestral score for the crowdsourced nature film "Love the Earth."

Heap's last album Ellipse earned her a Grammy and Ivor Novello award. This summer marks the release of Sparks, her fifth and most ambitious album to date. Sparks' songs have taken Imogen all over the world from her North East London home studio to the Himalayas via China. This year Imogen is the guest artist-curator for the iconic London Roundhouse venue’s new music festival, Reverb. The eagerly awaited Sparks world tour will begin at Reverb in August 2014. Meanwhile, Imogen will be celebrating her tenth TED anniversary this year.

More profile about the speaker
Imogen Heap | Speaker | TED.com
TEDGlobal 2009

Imogen Heap: "Wait It Out"

イモジェン・ヒープが歌う「終わるまで待つの?」

Filmed:
1,084,087 views

イモジェン・ヒープが、新作アルバム「楕円」から心に訴える曲「終わるまで待つの?」をピアノ弾き語りでお送りします。
- Musician
Imogen Heap's aching voice and surprising electronics infuse countless videos and iPods with bone-chilling atmospherics. Full bio

Double-click the English transcript below to play the video.

00:18
♫ Where do we go from here? ♫
0
6000
4000
ここからどこへ行くの?
00:22
♫ How do we carryキャリー on? ♫
1
10000
3000
どう やっていけばいいの?
00:25
♫ I can't get beyond超えて the questions質問
2
13000
4000
この問いを 乗り越えることができない
00:32
Clambering騒動 for the scrapsスクラップ
3
20000
2000
ごみの間を這うように進む
00:34
♫ in the shatter粉砕する of us, collapsed崩壊した
4
22000
4000
潰れた私たちのかけらの中
00:38
♫ It cutsカット me with everyすべて could have been ♫
5
26000
5000
「だったかもしれないのに」という思いに苛まれる
00:46
Pain痛み on pain痛み on play遊びます, repeating繰り返す
6
34000
4000
苦痛と苦痛の 再生 繰り返し
00:50
♫ With the backupバックアップ, makeshift一時的 life in waiting待っている
7
38000
6000
替えの利く 間に合わせの人生があるだけ
01:00
Everybodyみんな says言う
8
48000
3000
みんな言う
01:06
♫ time heals癒す everything ♫
9
54000
2000
時がすべて癒してくれると
01:12
♫ What of the wretched悲惨な hollow中空? ♫
10
60000
3000
でも この惨めな空虚は何?
01:18
♫ The endless無限 in betweenの間に? ♫
11
66000
3000
間にあって際限のない
01:21
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
12
69000
3000
ただ終わるまで待つの?
01:24
♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
13
72000
3000
ここにはもう何もない
01:27
Turning旋回 the sign符号 around ♫
14
75000
3000
しるしを変えるものは何も
01:30
♫ We're closed閉まっている to the Earth地球 'til'まで furtherさらに notice通知
15
78000
7000
追って連絡するまで 世界から閉ざされてる
01:37
♫ A crumbling崩壊する clicheクリシェ case場合
16
85000
3000
砕け散るありきたりの話
01:40
crumpledくしゃくしゃ and puffyふかふか faced直面する
17
88000
3000
潰れて腫れた顔をして
01:43
caught捕らえられた deadデッド in the stare見詰める of a thousand milesマイル
18
91000
6000
千マイル先から見られている
01:51
♫ All I want, only one street通り levelレベル miracle奇跡
19
99000
4000
私が望むのは たったひとつの 何でもない奇跡
01:57
♫ I'll be an out and out bornうまれた again ♫
20
105000
2000
すっかり生まれ変わって
01:59
♫ from noneなし more cynicalシニカル
21
107000
2000
今度はもっと疑い深くなる
02:02
Everybodyみんな says言う
22
110000
3000
みんな言う
02:08
♫ that time heals癒す everything ♫
23
116000
4000
時がすべて癒してくれると
02:14
♫ But what of the wretched悲惨な hollow中空? ♫
24
122000
5000
でも この惨めな空虚は何?
02:20
♫ The endless無限 in betweenの間に? ♫
25
128000
3000
間にあって際限のない
02:23
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
26
131000
3000
ただ終わるまで待つの?
02:27
♫ And sit座る here coldコールド? ♫
27
135000
3000
ここに凍えて座ったまま?
02:30
♫ We will be long gone行った by then ♫
28
138000
3000
そのずっと前に 消えてしまう
02:33
♫ In lackluster鈍い
29
141000
2000
活気をなくし
02:35
♫ In dustほこり we lay寝る around old古い magazines雑誌
30
143000
4000
埃だらけで 古い雑誌の山に横たわり
02:39
Fluorescent蛍光 lighting点灯 setsセット the sceneシーン
31
147000
3000
蛍光灯に照らされている
02:42
♫ for all we could and should be beingであること
32
150000
4000
私たちにありうるすべて あるべきすべてが
02:46
♫ in the one life that we've私たちは got ♫
33
154000
3000
この1つの命の中で
02:53
Everybodyみんな says言う
34
161000
4000
みんな言う
03:00
♫ time heals癒す everything ♫
35
168000
3000
時がすべて癒してくれると
03:06
♫ And what of the wretched悲惨な hollow中空? ♫
36
174000
4000
でも この惨めな空虚は何?
03:12
♫ The endless無限 in betweenの間に? ♫
37
180000
3000
間にあって際限のない
03:15
♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
38
183000
3000
ただ終わるまで待つの?
03:22
♫ Just going to sweat it out? ♫
39
190000
3000
ずっと我慢しながら?
03:28
♫ Just going to sweat it out? ♫
40
196000
3000
ずっと我慢しながら?
03:36
♫ Wait it out ♫
41
204000
8000
終わるまで待つの?
03:45
(Applause拍手)
42
213000
4000
(拍手)
Translated by Yasushi Aoki
Reviewed by Takako Sato

▲Back to top

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Imogen Heap - Musician
Imogen Heap's aching voice and surprising electronics infuse countless videos and iPods with bone-chilling atmospherics.

Why you should listen

Classically trained composer, multi-instrumentalist and singer Imogen Heap finds her muse in unlikely places. She's mined sonic mystery from sources ranging from cardboard tubes to cheap samplers to the data gloves--not to mention her own vocal cords.

A relentless experimenter, Heap's latest song cycle is built around some 900 fan-submitted "sound seeds," or samples of everyday sounds. The first six of these "Heapsongs" have been released via her website, and include the lovely "Propeller Seeds," inspired by a chance meeting at a past TEDGlobal. During 2012's TEDGlobal she recorded a song in various locations around Edinburgh, "anywhere that has a piano and they let me turn up with a microphone." She has also composed the orchestral score for the crowdsourced nature film "Love the Earth."

Heap's last album Ellipse earned her a Grammy and Ivor Novello award. This summer marks the release of Sparks, her fifth and most ambitious album to date. Sparks' songs have taken Imogen all over the world from her North East London home studio to the Himalayas via China. This year Imogen is the guest artist-curator for the iconic London Roundhouse venue’s new music festival, Reverb. The eagerly awaited Sparks world tour will begin at Reverb in August 2014. Meanwhile, Imogen will be celebrating her tenth TED anniversary this year.

More profile about the speaker
Imogen Heap | Speaker | TED.com