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"

Imogen Heap wykonuje "Wait it out" ("Przeczekaj to")

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Imogen Heap wykonuje okrojoną wersję poruszającego utworu "Wait it out", ze swojej najnowszej płyty "Ellipse".
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♫ Where do we go from here? ♫
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♫ Dokąd stąd zmierzamy? ♫
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♫ How do we carrynieść on? ♫
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♫ Jak się nie poddać? ♫
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♫ I can't get beyondpoza the questionspytania
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♫ Nie mogę wyjść poza te pytania ♫
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ClamberingStając for the scrapsSkrawki
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♫ Siegając po resztki ♫
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♫ in the shatterShatter of us, collapsedzwinięty
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♫ Po naszym upadku ♫
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♫ It cutscięcia me with everykażdy could have been ♫
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♫ Każde "gdyby" pogłębia ranę ♫
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PainBól on painból on playgrać, repeatingpowtarzając
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♫ Ból goni wciąż ból ♫
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♫ With the backuputworzyć kopię zapasową, makeshiftprowizoryczny life in waitingczekanie
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♫ Doraźne życie dla zabicia czasu ♫
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EverybodyKażdy saysmówi
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♫ Ludzie mówią, ♫
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♫ time healsleczy everything ♫
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♫ że czas zaleczy każdą ranę ♫
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♫ What of the wretchednieszczęśliwy hollowHollow? ♫
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♫ A co z żałosną pustką? ♫
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♫ The endlessnieskończony in betweenpomiędzy? ♫
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♫ Wiecznym zawieszeniem? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Czy mamy to po prostu przeczekać? ♫
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♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
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♫ nie ma nic do ogladania ♫
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TurningToczenie the signznak around ♫
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♫ Obracanie wywieszki ♫
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♫ We're closedZamknięte to the EarthZiemia 'til'til furtherdalej noticeogłoszenie
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♫ Zamknięte blisko ziemi do odwołania ♫
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♫ A crumblingrozpadające się clichefrazes casewalizka
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♫ Rozkruszony banał ♫
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♫ zgnieciony, ze spuchniętą twarzą ♫
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♫ przyłapany na tysiącmilowym spojrzeniu ♫
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♫ All I want, only one streetulica levelpoziom miraclecud
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♫ Wszystko, czego chcę, to jeden przyziemny cud ♫
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♫ I'll be an out and out bornurodzony again ♫
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♫ Urodzę się całkiem na nowo ♫
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♫ from noneŻaden more cynicalcyniczny
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♫ teraz już bardziej cyniczna ♫
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EverybodyKażdy saysmówi
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♫ Ludzie mówią ♫
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♫ that time healsleczy everything ♫
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♫ że czas zaleczy każdą ranę ♫
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♫ But what of the wretchednieszczęśliwy hollowHollow? ♫
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♫ A co z żałosną pustką? ♫
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♫ The endlessnieskończony in betweenpomiędzy? ♫
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♫ Wiecznym zawieszeniem? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ And sitsiedzieć here coldzimno? ♫
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♫ Siedzieć tu, w zimnie? ♫
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♫ We will be long goneodszedł by then ♫
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♫ Dawno już nas tu nie będzie ♫
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♫ In lacklustersłabe
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♫ W monotonii ♫
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♫ In dustkurz we laykłaść around oldstary magazinesczasopisma
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FluorescentFluorescencyjny lightingoświetlenie setszestawy the scenescena
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♫ Jarzeniówki tworzą nastrój ♫
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♫ for all we could and should be beingistota
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♫ dla wszystkiego, czym moglibyśmy i powinniśmy być ♫
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♫ in the one life that we'vemamy got ♫
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♫ w tym jedynym życiu, jakie mamy ♫
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♫ Ludzie mówią ♫
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♫ time healsleczy everything ♫
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♫ że czas wyleczy każdą ranę ♫
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♫ And what of the wretchednieszczęśliwy hollowHollow? ♫
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♫ A co z żałosną pustką? ♫
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♫ The endlessnieskończony in betweenpomiędzy? ♫
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♫ Wiecznym zawieszeniem? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Czy mamy po prostu przeczekać? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatpot it out? ♫
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♫ Po prostu się przemęczyć? ♫
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♫ Wait it out ♫
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♫ Przeczekać ♫
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Translated by Ewa Bielczyk
Reviewed by Rysia Wand

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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