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.

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TEDGlobal 2009

Imogen Heap: "Wait It Out"

Imedžena Hīpa: „Kamēr pāries”

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Imedžena Hīpa spēlē iespaidīgu, atkailinātu dziesmas „Kamēr pāries” versiju no sava jaunākā ieraksta „Ellipse”.
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♫ Where do we go from here? ♫
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♫ Kā mums būs tālāk? ♫
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♫ How do we carrypārvadāt on? ♫
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♫ Kā turpināt? ♫
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♫ I can't get beyondtālāk the questionsjautājumi
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♫ Es netieku tālāk par jautājumiem ♫
♫ Rāpus ķeru pēc lauskām ♫
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♫ in the shattersatricināt of us, collapsedsabruka
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♫ Palikušām, mums plīstot ♫
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♫ It cutsizcirtņi me with everykatrs could have been ♫
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♫ Sāpīgi griež viss, kas varēja būt ♫
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PainSāpes on painsāpes on playspēlēt, repeatingatkārtota
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♫ Sāpju sāpes skan un skan ♫
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♫ With the backuprezerves kopija, makeshiftpašdarināto life in waitinggaida
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♫ Priekšā rezerves, pagaidu dzīve gaida ♫
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EverybodyVisi sayssaka
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♫ Visi saka ♫
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♫ time healsdziedē everything ♫
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♫ Laiks dziedē visu ♫
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♫ What of the wretchednožēlojams hollowdoba? ♫
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♫ Ko iesākt ar mokošo tukšumu? ♫
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♫ The endlessbezgalīgs in betweenstarp? ♫
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♫ Un bezgalīgo „līdz tam”? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Vai gaidīsim, kamēr pāries? ♫
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♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
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♫ Te vairs nav, ko redzēt ♫
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TurningPagrieziena the signzīme around ♫
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♫ Apgriežam zīmi otrādi ♫
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♫ We're closedslēgts to the EarthZemes 'tiltil furthertālāk noticepaziņojums
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♫ Esam pasaulei slēgti
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♫ A crumblingplaisas clicheklišeja casegadījums
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♫ Veca, drillēta plate ♫
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crumpledsabruka and puffypiepampusi facedsaskaras
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♫ Burzīta un pampusi seja ♫
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caughtnozvejotas deadmiris in the stareskatiens of a thousandtūkstotis milesjūdzes
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♫ Tukšs skatiens tālu tālumā ♫
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♫ All I want, only one streetiela levellīmenis miraclebrīnums
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♫ Es vēlos vien mazu ikdienas brīnumu ♫
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♫ I'll be an out and out borndzimis again ♫
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♫ Caurcaurēm dzimšu no jauna ♫
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♫ from nonenav more cynicalcinisks
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♫ Pat ne drusku ciniskāka ♫
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EverybodyVisi sayssaka
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♫ Visi saka ♫
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♫ that time healsdziedē everything ♫
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♫ But what of the wretchednožēlojams hollowdoba? ♫
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♫ Bet kā ar mokošo tukšumu? ♫
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♫ The endlessbezgalīgs in betweenstarp? ♫
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♫ Un bezgalīgo „līdz tam”? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Vai gaidīsim, kamēr pāries? ♫
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♫ And sitsēdēt here coldauksts? ♫
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♫ Ja iekšā salst? ♫
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♫ We will be long goneaizgājis by then ♫
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♫ Līdz tam jau sen būsim zuduši ♫
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♫ In lacklusterlackluster
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♫ Nebūtībā ♫
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♫ In dustputekļi we laygulēt around oldvecs magazinesžurnāli
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♫ Mums pretim veras priekškars balts ♫
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♫ for all we could and should be beingbūt
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♫ Visam, kas varēja būt
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♫ in the one life that we'vemēs esam got ♫
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♫ Šajā dzīvē vienīgajā ♫
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EverybodyVisi sayssaka
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♫ Visi saka ♫
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♫ time healsdziedē everything ♫
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♫ Laiks dziedē visu ♫
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♫ And what of the wretchednožēlojams hollowdoba? ♫
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♫ Bet ko iesākt ar mokošo tukšumu? ♫
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♫ The endlessbezgalīgs in betweenstarp? ♫
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♫ Un bezgalīgo „līdz tam”? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Vai gaidīsim, kamēr pāries? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatsviedri it out? ♫
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♫ Vienkārši izturēsim? ♫
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♫ Vienkārši izturēsim? ♫
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♫ Wait it out ♫
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♫ Kamēr pāries ♫
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(ApplauseAplausi)
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(Aplausi)
Translated by Raimonds Jaks
Reviewed by Kristaps Kadiķis

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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