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Article: Queen of the digital age
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- August 24, 2009
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By interacting with her fans at every step of the creative
process, Imogen Heap is blazing a trail for the music industry,
reports Michael McCarthy
The medium is the message, said Marshall McLuhan, and if the
legendary communications theorist had lived long enough to take in
Imogen Heap (he died in 1980), he might have been strongly confirmed
in his belief.
Today the sweet-voiced singer-songwriter from Romford in Essex
releases a new album, Ellipse, which is remarkable not so much for
its ethereal, dreamy songs - which are pretty good, in fact - as for
the way the whole collection has been put together.
The principle is one which a few short years ago seemed entirely
revolutionary: the ...