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 con "Wait It Out" ("Stare Ad Aspettare")

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Imogen Heap in una versione essenziale ed intensa di "Wait It Out" ("Stare Ad Aspettare"), dal suo nuovo album, Ellipse (Ellisse).
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♫ Where do we go from here? ♫
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♫ Dove ce ne andremo a questo punto? ♫
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♫ How do we carrytrasportare on? ♫
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♫ Come andremo avanti? ♫
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♫ I can't get beyondal di là the questionsle domande
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♫ Non so andare oltre queste domande ♫
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♫ Arrampicandoci in mezzo ai resti ♫
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♫ in the shatterShatter of us, collapsedcollassata
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♫ tra i frammenti di noi, ormai crollati ♫
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♫ It cutstagli me with everyogni could have been ♫
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♫ E ogni "poteva essere" è come una ferita ♫
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PainDolore on paindolore on playgiocare, repeatingRipetere
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♫ Dolore su dolore sempre in gioco, senza sosta ♫
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♫ With the backupdi riserva, makeshiftmezzi di fortuna life in waitingin attesa
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♫ Con una vita di ripiego al posto della mia, in attesa ♫
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♫ Dicono tutti ♫
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♫ time healsguarisce everything ♫
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♫ che il tempo allevia ogni cosa ♫
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♫ What of the wretchedmiserabile hollowCava? ♫
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♫ Ma che dire di quel maledetto senso di vuoto? ♫
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♫ The endlessinfinito in betweenfra? ♫
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♫ Di quell'eternità che sta in mezzo? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Dovremmo solo stare ad aspettare? ♫
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♫ There is nothing to see here now ♫
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♫ Ma non c'è nulla da vedere, qui, adesso ♫
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TurningTornitura the signsegno around ♫
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♫ Giriamo il cartello sulla porta ♫
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♫ We're closedchiuso to the EarthTerra 'til' til furtherulteriore noticeAvviso
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♫ E siamo chiusi al Mondo intero, fino a nuovo avviso ♫
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♫ A crumblingfatiscenti clichecliché casecaso
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♫ Il tipico cliché decadente ♫
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♫ dal volto gonfio e raggrinzito ♫
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caughtcatturato deadmorto in the starefissare of a thousandmille milesmiglia
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♫ morto nel fissare il vuoto ♫
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♫ All I want, only one streetstrada levellivello miraclemiracolo
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♫ Vorrei solo un piccolo miracolo ♫
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♫ I'll be an out and out bornNato again ♫
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♫ E sarei del tutto rinata ♫
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♫ from nonenessuna more cynicalcinico
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♫ da ora in poi più cinica ♫
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EverybodyTutti saysdice
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♫ Dicono tutti ♫
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♫ that time healsguarisce everything ♫
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♫ But what of the wretchedmiserabile hollowCava? ♫
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♫ Ma che dire di quel maledetto senso di vuoto? ♫
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♫ The endlessinfinito in betweenfra? ♫
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♫ Di quell'eternità che sta in mezzo? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Dovremmo solo stare ad aspettare? ♫
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♫ And sitsedersi here coldfreddo? ♫
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♫ E rimanere seduti al freddo? ♫
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♫ We will be long goneandato by then ♫
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♫ A quel punto ce ne saremo andati da tempo ♫
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♫ In lacklusterscarno
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♫ Nell'oscurità ♫
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♫ In dustpolvere we layposare around oldvecchio magazinesriviste
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♫ In mezzo alla polvere, siamo stesi tra vecchie riviste ♫
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♫ La luce fluorescente a immortalare la scena ♫
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♫ for all we could and should be beingessere
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♫ per tutto ciò che potremmo o dovremmo essere ♫
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♫ in the one life that we'venoi abbiamo got ♫
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♫ in quest'unica vita che abbiamo ♫
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♫ Dicono tutti ♫
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♫ time healsguarisce everything ♫
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♫ che il tempo allevia ogni cosa ♫
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♫ And what of the wretchedmiserabile hollowCava? ♫
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♫ Ma che dire di quel maledetto senso di vuoto? ♫
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♫ The endlessinfinito in betweenfra? ♫
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♫ Di quell'eternità che sta in mezzo? ♫
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♫ Are we just going to wait it out? ♫
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♫ Dovremmo solo stare ad aspettare? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatsudore it out? ♫
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♫ Solo stare a sopportare? ♫
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♫ Just going to sweatsudore it out? ♫
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♫ Solo stare a sopportare? ♫
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♫ Wait it out ♫
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♫ Stare ad aspettare ♫
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Translated by Carmelina Barresi
Reviewed by Rafael Eufrasio

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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