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SHOCKING: Imogen heap - You Need To See This

Here's what the Snap Specs look like, as modelled by Jack Harlow, Imogen Heap and more

Here's what Snap's new SPECS AR glasses look like when worn by actual people like Imogen Heap, Hoyeon and Jack Harlow.

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“A week later, I got a message from my manager asking, ‘Did you meet Jeff Beck?’ He wanted me to sing on his record”: That time Jeff Beck gave an impromptu guitar lesson to a future pop pioneer – who didn’t know who he was

The serendipitous hangout led to the pair working together on Beck’s 2000 album, You Had It Coming

Guitar World

“I was sitting outside playing guitar very badly to myself and he said: ‘Let me show you some shapes.’ I said: ‘Wow, you’re good!’”: When Jeff Beck gave Imogen Heap an impromptu guitar lesson she had no idea who he was

“A week later I got a message from my manager asking: ‘Did you meet Jeff Beck?’”

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Imogen Heap: ‘We’re making a horrendous job of existing. Maybe AI is the next stage of evolution’

The pop-electronica musician answers your questions on hanging out with Jeff Beck, cheering up babies, and what she has learned from her ADHD and autism diagnoses

The Guardian - UK

Post your questions for Imogen Heap

As her landmark folktronica album Speak for Yourself celebrates its 20th anniversary, the singer and tech innovator is ready to take your questions

The Guardian - UK

7 Musicians You Didn’t Know Made Millions From Tech—Not Tunes

You might think your favorite musician makes their fortune mostly from music: albums, tours, merch. But some stars have quietly built seriously profitable tech portfolios—sometimes that tech income even rivals or outpaces their musical earnings. Knowing who they are can give you ideas about investing, diversifying, or just seeing how…

Plunged in Debt

“My computer blew up on me, but I didn't want to leave the studio without having done anything that day”: How a crashed PC led to the creation of Hide and Seek, the robotic a cappella that introduced millions to the power of vocal processing

Sparked by a tech malfunction at the end of a late-night studio session, Hide and Seek was featured in hit TV shows and sampled by Jason Derulo, becoming Heap's best-loved song. Two decades on, we recount its unlikely story

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“He’d already set everything up... The guitar was radically out of tune and the strings were virtually hanging off it”: Leo Abrahams on his Strat-wrestling initiation with Brian Eno, why he didn’t want to be famous, and what he learned from Paul Simon

The guitarist/producer has worked with Brett Anderson, Jarvis Cocker and Imogen Heap among others, but here he explains why his younger self might be slightly disappointed in his playing

Guitar World

“I remember thinking, ‘Don’t panic, maybe he’ll come over’”: How a chance encounter at a guitar store led to Leo Abrahams becoming Brian Eno’s right-hand guitar man

The versatile guitarist sets the record straight on his chance meeting with the synth-loving super producer

Guitar World

“What I learned, I suppose, is just she's very good in the studio, and she knows what works”: Imogen Heap on Taylor Swift's "extremely efficient" songwriting and recording process

“By the time she left, we had managed to write the song, produce the song, record the song, chat, meet, have tea, sit by the fire, eat lunch, eat dinner, do an entire record all by ourselves”

MusicRadar

Imogen Heap reveals she and Taylor Swift made 2014 tune Clean within one day

Imogen Heap has revealed she and Taylor Swift casually completed 'Clean' and still fitted in time to eat, chat and have tea by the fire.

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‘Woodstock for elder millennials’: the Garden State soundtrack anniversary concert

The music from Zach Braff’s seminal comedy drama took centre stage for one special night bringing back artists from Imogen Heap to The Shins

The Guardian - US

Stephen Fry, Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Dua Lipa among artists to protest copyright law changes to AI

A group of leading British performers and creatives have described the proposed changes as ‘wholly unnecessary and counterproductive’

The Independent UK

Kate Bush, Imogen Heap and Damon Albarn among 1,000 artists featured on silent AI protest album

Project features recordings of empty studios and recording spaces, which musicians warn could become the reality should new AI proposals go ahead

The Independent UK

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“I always say, especially when working with a lot of male producers, I always say ‘it needs more…’”: FKA Twigs has a very specific way of describing the “feminine touch” she wants her music to have

“I want more, like ephemeral soft edges. More all-encompassing kind of beautifulness,” she explains

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FKA twigs calls the 'soft edges' of her music 'pussy'

FKA twigs has spoken to Imogen Heap about the sound of music and the word she uses to describe the 'soft edges' to it.

The Conversation

Imogen Heap’s AI revolution: how one British musician is shaping the future of music

Imogen Heap is not your average musician. Her innovative approach to music-making has persistently embraced technology. From her Grammy award-winning production work to her use of vocoders and Mi.Mu electronic gloves, Heap continues to push the boundaries of how music is created and experienced.

International Business Times

'Harness The Now': British Singer Imogen Heap Embraces AI

Unlike the bulk of her peers, Grammy-winning British singer Imogen Heap is embracing the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in her music as well to set up a music collaboration platform.

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The Guardian - UK

‘I’m empowering my song to go and make love with different people’: Imogen Heap on how her AI twin will rewrite pop

Known for her wild “Imogenation”, Heap has always reworked pop with tech, but her new data-mining project is her boldest yet. She explains why ‘you can’t stop progress’

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"Through the years, we’ve had the likes of Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Mika and Amanda Palmer visit and stay": Step inside the "quirky" underground studio set up by Imogen Heap

Housed in an elliptical building erected in 1972, this residential studio was used by Swift on the album 1989

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"I'm not excited about AI making stuff that a human could do - I want to hear things that humans have never imagined": Imogen Heap on AI, making her own voice model, and a new era of musical collaboration

After a 10-year hiatus, electropop’s chief innovator is back, and ready to take on artificial intelligence

Marie Claire

The Weirdest and Wackiest Grammys Outfits Ever

At least they're not boring?

Daily Mirror

Damon Albarn apologises to Taylor Swift after songwriting row blows up

The Blur frontman has been forced to make a hasty and grovelling apology after Taylor ignited a furious Twitter backlash when she took issue with him saying he didn't like her 'endlessly upbeat' music

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