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 spielt "Wait It Out"

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Imogen Heap spielt eine kraftvolle, verkürzte Version von "Wait It Out" aus ihrem Album "Ellipse".
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♫ Where do we go from here? ♫
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♫ Wohin gehen wir von hier an? ♫
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♫ How do we carrytragen on? ♫
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♫ Wie können wir weitermachen? ♫
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♫ I can't get beyonddarüber hinaus the questionsFragen
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♫ Ich komme nicht über die Fragen hinweg ♫
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ClamberingKlettern for the scrapsSchrotte
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♫ Suche nach den Fetzen ♫
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♫ in the shatterShatter of us, collapsedzusammengebrochen
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♫ in den eingestürzten Trümmern von uns ♫
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♫ It cutsSchnitte me with everyjeden could have been ♫
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♫ Es trifft mich mit dem, was sein ♫
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PainSchmerzen on painSchmerz on playspielen, repeatingWiederholen
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♫ Schmerz auf Schmerz auf Spiel, immer wieder ♫
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♫ With the backupBackup, makeshiftprovisorisch life in waitingwarten
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♫ mit der Stütze, ein provisorisches Leben wartend ♫
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EverybodyAlle sayssagt
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♫ Jeder sagt ♫
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♫ time healsheilt everything ♫
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♫ Zeit heilt alles ♫
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♫ What of the wretchedelende hollowhohl? ♫
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♫ Was ist mit der elenden Leere? ♫
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♫ The endlessendlos in betweenzwischen? ♫
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♫ Der Unendlichkeit zwischendrin? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Werden wir es einfach abwarten? ♫
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♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
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♫ Hier ist jetzt nichts zu sehen ♫
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TurningDrehen the signSchild around ♫
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♫ Ich drehe das Schild um ♫
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♫ All I want, only one streetStraße levelEbene miracleWunder
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♫ Alles was ich will: Nur ein Wunder auf der Strasse ♫
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♫ I'll be an out and out borngeboren again ♫
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♫ Ich werde wieder und wieder geboren werden ♫
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♫ from nonekeiner more cynicalzynisch
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♫ von jetzt an viel zynischer ♫
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EverybodyAlle sayssagt
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♫ Jederman sagt ♫
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♫ that time healsheilt everything ♫
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♫ Zeit heilt alles ♫
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♫ But what of the wretchedelende hollowhohl? ♫
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♫ Was ist mit der elenden Leere? ♫
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♫ The endlessendlos in betweenzwischen? ♫
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♫ Der Unendlichkeit zwischendrin? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Werden wir es einfach abwarten? ♫
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♫ And sitsitzen here coldkalt? ♫
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♫ Und hier im Kalten sitzen? ♫
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♫ We will be long goneWeg by then ♫
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♫ Dann werden wir schon lange fort sein ♫
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♫ In dustStaub we laylegen around oldalt magazinesZeitschriften
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♫ Neon-Licht bestimmt die Stimmung ♫
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♫ for all we could and should be beingSein
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♫ in the one life that we'vewir haben got ♫
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♫ in dem einen Leben das wir haben ♫
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EverybodyAlle sayssagt
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♫ Jeder sagt ♫
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♫ time healsheilt everything ♫
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♫ Zeit heilt alles ♫
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♫ And what of the wretchedelende hollowhohl? ♫
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♫ Was ist mit der leenden Leere? ♫
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♫ The endlessendlos in betweenzwischen? ♫
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♫ Der Unendlichkeit zwischendrin? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Werden wir es einfach abwarten? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatSchweiß it out? ♫
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♫ Einfach abwarten und ausschwitzen? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatSchweiß it out? ♫
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♫ Einfach abwarten und ausschwitzen? ♫
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♫ Abwarten ♫
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Translated by J. Henning Buchholz
Reviewed by Christian Mathias

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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