Imogen Heap is musical in nature
The often ethereal and always charming Imogen Heap delighted the PopTech audience today with both an announcement and a song. Heap’s recent trip to Tanzania and a chance meeting with social entrepreneur Thomas Ermacora led them to co-create what they’re calling a “do tank” — a place to execute on crowd-sourced projects.
Their inaugural collaboration is called Love the Earth, a site that houses video clips uploaded by fans from around the world. The clips showcase little moments in nature that have inspired them: a flower spotted on a morning walk; a cloud’s reflection in a puddle; a robin going about her daily business of worm-gathering. Within six weeks of launch, the site had over 1,000 clips from 100 users.
Heap is now planning to write a symphony based on a montage of the clips, which she will perform at the Royal Albert Hall on November 5th. To tide us over until then, she played a stripped-down version of what she says is her most popular song, “Hide & Seek” — a song that was created by accident one night when her computer died and she was forced to take a look at something in her own world (her instruments) in a new way.
(Photos: Kris Krüg)
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It must be a really hard work, but it will be a succesfull project, i hope :D
can’t wait for Love The Earth, i’m sure it will be brilliant. :)
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