Article: Queen of the digital age

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 ...

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