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Rolex GMT Master II Review
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Christian Cantrell from http://www.watchreport.com reviews the Rolex GMT Master II. Please check out the complete review at: http://www.watchreport.com/2006/...
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GMT - Cannonball
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Cannonball.
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GMT - Can't Beat Rock'n'Roll
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Can't Beat Rock'n'Roll.
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News Bulletin - 03:35 GMT update
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The main headlines on Al Jazeera English, featuring the latest news and reports from around the world.
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News Bulletin - 11:35 GMT update
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News Bulletin - 20:00 GMT update
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News Bulletin - 14:35 GMT update
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News Bulletin - 14:35 GMT update
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Meantime - GMT Feat. Imogen Heap
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The official music video for "Meantime" by GMT feat. Imogen Heap.
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News Bulletin - 21:30 GMT update
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Rolex GMT Master II Day/Night Watch With Black And Blue Bezel Hands-On
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See more @ http://www.ablogtowatch.com Ariel Adams @ aBlogtoWatch shows you the new for 2013 version of the Rolex GMT Master II watch with the day/night blac...
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Universal Time:(UT), (GMT), (UT1), (UTC).
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What is Universal Time?
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Praye - GMT / Still Young (Official Music Video)
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Music Video by PRAYE performing "GMT / Still Young". Video directed by Ohenemedia. © April 2013 Ohenemedia.
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Christian Cantrell from http://www.watchreport.com reviews the Rolex GMT Master II. Please check out the complete review at: http://www.watchreport.com/2006/...
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Rolex GMT Mas­ter II Re­view
Chris­tian Cantrell from http://​www.​watchreport.​com re­views the Rolex GMT Mas­ter II. Please...
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GMT - Can­non­ball
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GMT - Can't Beat Rock'n'Roll
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News Bul­letin - 03:35 GMT up­date
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News Bul­letin - 03:35 GMT up­date
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Mean­time - GMT Feat. Imo­gen Heap
The of­fi­cial music video for "Mean­time" by GMT feat. Imo­gen Heap....
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News Bul­letin - 21:30 GMT up­date
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Rolex GMT Mas­ter II Day/Night Watch With Black And Blue Bezel Hands-On
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Uni­ver­sal Time:(UT), (GMT), (UT1), (UTC).
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Praye - GMT / Still Young (Of­fi­cial Music Video)
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An aerial view of the flooding in Passau, Germany, photographed Monday June 3, 2013.
Edit Jamaica Observer
04 Jun 2013
Water levels on the Rhine, Danube and Neckar rivers have risen steadily, with many smaller streams also threatening to break their banks ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
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Syrian army retakes key town of Qusair from rebels
Edit BBC News
05 Jun 2013
Syrian pro-government forces have taken full control of the strategic town of Qusair, state TV and the rebels say. The town, near the Lebanese border, has been the centre of fighting for more than two weeks between rebels and Syrian troops backed by fighters from the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state TV said a large number of rebels had died and many had surrendered ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
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Rudolf (11) crosses the flooded market place of the city of Wehlen at river Elbe, Germany, Tuesday, June 4, 2013. After heavy rainfalls, swollen rivers flooded areas in Germany, Austria , Switzerland and Czech Republic.
Edit Herald Tribune
05 Jun 2013
BERLIN - Rising river levels are still threatening vast parts of eastern and southern Germany and hundreds of people were being evacuated in Dresden. A city spokeswoman told German news agency dpa on Wednesday some 600 people needed to leave their homes and electricity was turned off in some parts of the eastern city that was flooded by the Elbe river ... In the eastern city of Halle, the downtown area was flooded ... All rights reserved ... ....(size: 3.4Kb)



Edit CNN
06 Jun 2013
June 6, 2013 -- Updated 0041 GMT (0841 HKT) ... May 23, 2013 -- Updated 1052 GMT (1852 HKT) ... May 22, 2013 -- Updated 1356 GMT (2156 HKT) ... May 23, 2013 -- Updated 1106 GMT (1906 HKT) ... May 23, 2013 -- Updated 1015 GMT (1815 HKT) ... May 17, 2013 -- Updated 1710 GMT (0110 HKT) ... May 13, 2013 -- Updated 0750 GMT (1550 HKT) ... May 7, 2013 -- Updated 1418 GMT (2218 HKT) ... April 24, 2013 -- Updated 1434 GMT (2234 HKT)....(size: 10.6Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
June 6, 2013 -- Updated 0204 GMT (1004 HKT) ... June 6, 2013 -- Updated 0204 GMT (1004 HKT) ... May 30, 2013 -- Updated 0253 GMT (1053 HKT) ... May 29, 2013 -- Updated 0146 GMT (0946 HKT) ... May 21, 2013 -- Updated 0308 GMT (1108 HKT) ... May 17, 2013 -- Updated 0218 GMT (1018 HKT) ... May 9, 2013 -- Updated 0214 GMT (1014 HKT) ... May 8, 2013 -- Updated 0432 GMT (1232 HKT) ... May 6, 2013 -- Updated 0837 GMT (1637 HKT)....(size: 7.9Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
June 6, 2013 -- Updated 0052 GMT (0852 HKT) ... June 6, 2013 -- Updated 0019 GMT (0819 HKT) ... June 5, 2013 -- Updated 1846 GMT (0246 HKT) ... June 4, 2013 -- Updated 1455 GMT (2255 HKT) ... May 31, 2013 -- Updated 1545 GMT (2345 HKT) ... May 28, 2013 -- Updated 2053 GMT (0453 HKT) ... May 23, 2013 -- Updated 2148 GMT (0548 HKT) ... May 16, 2013 -- Updated 1857 GMT (0257 HKT) ... May 13, 2013 -- Updated 1343 GMT (2143 HKT)....(size: 19.7Kb)
Edit Reuters
06 Jun 2013
FUNDAMENTALS * Spot gold had dropped 0.25 percent to $1,399.36 an ounce by 0016 GMT, after gaining slightly on Wednesday as investors looked for safer assets after a private U.S ... DATA/EVENTS (GMT) 1000 Germany Industrial orders 1100 Bank of England policy decision 1145 European Central Bank policy decision 1230 U.S....(size: 2.3Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
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Edit Xinhua
06 Jun 2013
local time (2100 GMT) on Tuesday. June 5 June 4. U.S ... Editor. Mengjie ... ....(size: 0.4Kb)
Edit Xinhua
06 Jun 2013
MOSCOW, June 5 (Xinhua) -- A fire broke out Wednesday in a Moscow metro, injuring at least 30 people, the Emergency Situations Ministry's local bureau said ... local time (0500 GMT) ... ....(size: 0.9Kb)
Edit The Star
06 Jun 2013
PHILADELPHIA (Pennsylvania). A four-storey apartment building collapsed onto a smaller structure Wednesday in the US city of Philadelphia, killing one person and injuring 13 others, officials said ... Officials had earlier said that 12 people were injured and at least two others were trapped under the rubble after the 10.45 am (1445 GMT) collapse ... "It is delicate ... - AFP. ....(size: 1.8Kb)
Edit BBC News
06 Jun 2013
Europe has launched its giant robotic freighter towards the International Space Station (ISS). The vehicle, dubbed Albert Einstein, is carrying food, water, equipment and fuel for the orbiting outpost. The space truck left Earth on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou in French Guiana at 18.52 local time (21.52 GMT) on Wednesday. At 20.2 tonnes, the Albert Einstein freighter is the heaviest spacecraft ever launched by Europe ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
June 5, 2013 -- Updated 2108 GMT (0508 HKT). Baghdad (CNN) -- At least 14 people, including 10 border guards, were shot to death Wednesday by gunmen pretending to be a military checkpoint on a central Iraq highway, police said in Ramadi ... Iraqi security forces are investigating the incident, and no further details were immediately available, police said ... ... ....(size: 2.1Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
June 5, 2013 -- Updated 2322 GMT (0722 HKT). (CNN) -- Tropical Storm Andrea formed in the Gulf of Mexico on Wednesday, marking the first storm of the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. Track the storm. The storm was about 310 miles southwest of Tampa, Florida, and moving north at 3 mph, said the National Hurricane Center ... 0. Comments » ... Home ... ... ....(size: 2.2Kb)
Edit CNBC
06 Jun 2013
Gold edged to below $1,400 an ounce on Thursday as India, the world's biggest bullion consumer, raised import duty on the metal by a third to reduce its current account deficit. Spot gold had dropped 0.25 percent to $1,399.36 an ounce by 0016 GMT, after gaining slightly on Wednesday as investors looked for safer assets after a private U.S ... (Read More ... ....(size: 1.9Kb)
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06 Jun 2013
Six people have died and 13 have been hurt after a building collapsed in the centre of the US city of Philadelphia, officials have said. A four-storey building fell down, sending debris on to a building housing a bustling Salvation Army shop. The collapse happened around 10.30 local time (14.30 GMT) in the Center City neighbourhood ... All 13 people transported to hospital had suffered minor injuries, the fire commissioner said ... ....(size: 2.0Kb)
File:UTC offset map rygcbm region Africa.png
Time zones of Africa:
    UTC−01:00 Cape Verde Time (The islands of Cape Verde are to the west of the African mainland.)
    UTC±00:00 Greenwich Mean Time Western European Time
    UTC+01:00 Central European Time · West Africa Time · Western European Summer Time.
    UTC+02:00 Eastern European Time · Central Africa Time · West Africa Summer Time · South African Standard Time
    UTC+03:00 Eastern European Summer Time · East Africa Time
    UTC+04:00 Mauritius Time · Seychelles Time · Moscow Time
Striped colours indicate countries observing daylight saving time. Outside Africa the zones may have other names.


Greenwich Mean Time (GMT) is a time system originally referring to mean solar time at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, London, which later became adopted as a global time standard. It is arguably the same as Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and when this is viewed as a time zone the name Greenwich Mean Time is especially used by bodies connected with the United Kingdom, such as the BBC World Service,[1] the Royal Navy, the Met Office and others.

Before the introduction of UTC on 1 January 1972 Greenwich Mean Time (also known as Zulu time) was the same as Universal Time (UT) which is a standard astronomical concept used in many technical fields. Astronomers no longer use the term "Greenwich Mean Time".

In the United Kingdom, GMT is the official time only during winter; during summer British Summer Time is used. GMT is the same as Western European Time.[2]

Noon Greenwich Mean Time is rarely the exact moment when the sun crosses the Greenwich meridian (and reaches its highest point in the sky at Greenwich) because of Earth's uneven speed in its elliptic orbit and its axial tilt. This event may be up to 16 minutes away from noon GMT (a discrepancy calculated by the equation of time). The fictitious mean sun is the annual average of this nonuniform motion of the true Sun, necessitating the inclusion of mean in Greenwich Mean Time.

Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions, sometimes numbering hours starting at midnight and sometimes starting at noon. The more specific terms UT and UTC do not share this ambiguity, always referring to midnight as zero hours. Astronomers preferred the latter GMT convention in order to simplify their observational data so that each entire night was logged under one single calendar date.

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History[link]

Greenwich clock with standard measurements

As the United Kingdom grew into an advanced maritime nation, British mariners kept at least one chronometer on GMT in order to calculate their longitude from the Greenwich meridian, which was by convention considered to have longitude zero degrees (this convention was internationally adopted in the International Meridian Conference of 1884). Note that the synchronization of the chronometer on GMT did not affect shipboard time itself, which was still solar time. But this practice, combined with mariners from other nations drawing from Nevil Maskelyne's method of lunar distances based on observations at Greenwich, eventually led to GMT being used worldwide as a reference time independent of location. Most time zones were based upon this reference as a number of hours and half-hours "ahead of GMT" or "behind GMT".

Greenwich Mean Time was adopted across the island of Great Britain by the Railway Clearing House in 1847, and by almost all railway companies by the following year, from which the term "railway time" is derived. It was gradually adopted for other purposes, but a legal case in 1858 held "local mean time" to be the official time. This changed in 1880, when GMT was legally adopted throughout the island of Great Britain. GMT was adopted on the Isle of Man in 1883, Jersey in 1898 and Guernsey in 1913. Ireland adopted Greenwich Mean Time in 1916, supplanting Dublin Mean Time.[3] Hourly time signals from Greenwich Observatory were first broadcast on 5 February 1924, rendering the time ball at the observatory obsolete in the process.

The daily rotation of the Earth is somewhat irregular (see ΔT) and is slowing down slightly; atomic clocks constitute a much more stable timebase. On 1 January 1972, GMT was replaced as the international time reference by Coordinated Universal Time, maintained by an ensemble of atomic clocks around the world. Universal Time (UT), a term introduced in 1928, initially represented mean time at Greenwich determined in the traditional way to accord with the originally-defined universal day; then from 1 January 1956 (as decided by the IAU at Dublin, 1955, at the initiative of William Markowitz) this 'raw' form of UT was re-labeled UT0 and effectively superseded by refined forms UT1 (UT0 equalized for the effects of polar wandering[4]) and UT2 (UT1 further equalized for annual seasonal variations in earth rotation rate). Leap seconds are nowadays added to or subtracted from UTC to keep it within 0.9 seconds of UT1.

Indeed, even the Greenwich meridian itself is not quite what it used to be—defined by 'the centre of the transit instrument at the Observatory at Greenwich'. Although that instrument still survives in working order, it is no longer in use and now the meridian of origin of the world's longitude and time is not strictly defined in material form but from a statistical solution resulting from observations of all time-determination stations which the BIPM takes into account when co-ordinating the world's time signals. Nevertheless, the line in the old observatory's courtyard today differs no more than a few metres from that imaginary line which is now the Prime Meridian of the world."[5]

Ambiguity in the definition of GMT[link]

Historically the term GMT has been used with two different conventions for numbering hours. The long-standing astronomical convention dating from the work of Ptolemy, was to refer to noon as zero hours (see Julian day). This contrasted with the civil convention of referring to midnight as zero hours dating from the Romans. The latter convention was adopted on and after 1 January 1925 for astronomical purposes as well, resulting in a discontinuity of 12 hours, or half a day earlier. The instant that was designated December 31.5 GMT in 1924 almanacs became January 1.0 GMT in 1925 almanacs. The term Greenwich Mean Astronomical Time (GMAT) was introduced to unambiguously refer to the previous noon-based astronomical convention for GMT.[6] The more specific terms UT and UTC do not share this ambiguity, always referring to midnight as zero hours.

Greenwich Mean Time in legislation[link]

Several countries throughout the world legislatively define their local time by explicit reference to Greenwich Mean Time.[7][8] Some examples are:

  • United Kingdom: The Interpretation Act 1978, section 9 — provides that whenever an expression of time occurs in an Act, the time referred to shall (unless otherwise specifically stated) be held to be Greenwich mean time. Under subsection 23(3), the same rule applies to deeds and other instruments.[3][9]
  • Belgium: Decrees of 1946 and 1947 set legal time as one hour ahead of GMT.[7]
  • Republic of Ireland: Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971, section 1,[10] and Interpretation Act 2005, section 18(i).[11]
  • Canada: Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21, section 35(1).[12]

Time zone[link]

Those countries marked in dark blue on the map above use Western European Summer Time and advance their clock one hour in summer. In the United Kingdom, this is known as British Summer Time (BST); in the Republic of Ireland it is called Irish Standard Time (IST)[13] — officially changing to GMT in winter. Those countries marked in light blue keep their clocks on UTC/GMT/WET year round.

Discrepancies between legal GMT and geographical GMT[link]

Colour Legal time vs local mean time
1 h ± 30 m behind
0 h ± 30 m
1 h ± 30 m ahead
2 h ± 30 m ahead
3 h ± 30 m ahead
European winter
European summer

Since legal, political, and economic criteria (in addition to purely physical or geographical criteria) are used in the drawing of time zones, it follows that actual time zones do not precisely adhere to meridian lines. The 'GMT' time zone, were it drawn by purely geographical terms, would consist of exactly the area between meridians 7°30'W and 7°30'E. As a result, there are European locales that despite lying in an area with a 'physical' UTC time, actually use another time zone (UTC+1 in particular); contrariwise, there are European areas that use UTC, even though their 'physical' time zone is UTC−1 (e.g., most of Portugal), or even UTC−2 (the westernmost part of Iceland). Actually, because the UTC time zone in Europe is 'shifted' to the west, Lowestoft in Suffolk, East Anglia, England at only 1°45'E is the easternmost settlement in Europe in which UTC is applied. Following is a list of the 'incongruencies':

Countries (or parts thereof) west of 22°30'W ('physical' UTC−2) that use UTC
  • The westernmost part of Iceland, incl. the northwest peninsula and its main town of Ísafjörður, which is west of 22°30'W, uses UTC. Bjargtangar, Iceland is the westernmost point in which UTC is applied.
Countries (or parts thereof) west of 7°30'W ('physical' UTC−1) that use UTC
Countries (mostly) between meridians 7°30'W and 7°30'E ('physical' UTC) that use UTC+1
This arch that stretches over an autopista indicates the Prime Meridian in Spain.
  • Spain (except for the Canary Islands which use UTC). Parts of Galicia in fact lie west of 7°30'W ('physical' UTC−1), whereas there is no Spanish territory east of 7°30'E ('physical' UTC+1). Spain's time is the direct result of Franco's Presidential Order (published in Boletín Oficial del Estado of 8 March 1940)[14] abandoning Greenwich UTC time in favour of UTC+1 effective 23:00 16 March 1940. This is indeed an excellent example of the aforementioned political criteria used in the drawing of time zones: the time change was passed "in consideration of the convenience from the national time marching in step according to that of other European countries".[15][16] The Presidential Order (most likely enacted to be in synchrony with Germany and Italy, with which the Franco regime was unofficially allied) included in its 5th article a provision for its future phase out[16], which never took place. Due to this political decision Spain is two hours ahead of its local mean time during the summer (one hour ahead in winter), which possibly explains the notoriously late schedule for which the country is known.[17] However, in Portugal, which is a mere one hour behind Spain, the timetable is quite different.
  • Most of France, including the cities of Paris, Marseilles and Lyon. Only small parts of Alsace, Lorraine and Provence are east of 7°30'E ('physical' UTC+1).
  • Belgium
  • Netherlands
  • Luxembourg

See also[link]

Notes[link]

  1. ^ What is GMT? at the BBC Radio World Service Note that all broadcasters now transmit atomic time signals.
  2. ^ Legal time in the UK is still "Greenwich mean time" (without capitalisation), according to the Interpretation Act 1978 (with an exception made for those periods when the Summer Time Act 1972 orders an hour's shift for daylight saving), see also the legal section in this article. Mean time at Greenwich was the prototype of Universal Time, as from the late 19th century, see the terms of the International Meridian Conference. UT1 is a form of UT equalized for polar motion. The widely used time signals based on UTC are kept within 0.9 seconds of UT1, see 'History' section of this article). UTC+0 is explained elsewhere in this article (links from map caption) as equal to Western European Time (WET).
  3. ^ a b Myers (2007).
  4. ^ UT1 as explained on IERS page
  5. ^ Howse 1997, p. 178
  6. ^ Astronomical Supplement to the Astronomical Almanac. University Science Books. 1992. p. 76. ISBN 0-935702-68-7. 
  7. ^ a b Dumortier, Hannelore, & Loncke (n.d.)
  8. ^ Seago & Seidelmann (c. 2001)
  9. ^ Interpretation Act 1978
  10. ^ Standard Time (Amendment) Act, 1971 (Ireland)
  11. ^ Interpretation Act 2005, part iv sec. 18
  12. ^ Interpretation Act, R.S.C. 1985, c. I-21 – this refers to 'standard time' for the several provinces, defining each in relation to 'Greenwich time', but does not use the expression 'Greenwich mean time'. Several provinces, such as Nova Scotia (Time Definition Act. R.S., c. 469, s. 1), have their own sovereign legislation which specifically mentions either "Greenwich Mean Time" or "Greenwich mean solar time".
  13. ^ Standard Time Act, 1968.
  14. ^ "BOE Orden sobre adelanto de la hora legal en 60 minutos". http://www.boe.es/g/es/bases_datos/tifs.php?coleccion=gazeta&ref=1940/02362&anyo=1940&nbo=68&lim=A&pub=BOE&pco=1675&pfi=1676. Retrieved 2 December 2008. 
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Imogen Heap
Background information
Birth name Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap
Born (1977-12-09) 9 December 1977 (age 34)
Origin Havering, Essex, England
Genres Electronica, alternative, indie, synthpop,[1] folktronica, ambient, dream pop, rock
Occupations Musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist
Instruments Vocals, keyboards, array mbira, cello, clarinet, guitar, drums, keytar, nail violin, vocal percussion, synthesizer, sampler, organ, Hang, vocoder
Years active 1997–present
Labels Almo Sounds (1998–2001)
Megaphonic (2005–present)
RCA Victor (2006–present)
Associated acts Frou Frou
Urban Species
IAMX
MIKA
Website imogenheap.com

Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap (play /ˈɪməɨn ˈhp/; born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering)[2] is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, composer and songwriter from Havering, Essex. She is known for her work as part of the musical duo Frou Frou and her solo albums, which she writes, produces, and mixes. She has produced three solo albums, the latest of which is 2009's Ellipse, which was a North American chart success and earned Heap two Grammy nominations, winning Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.[3]

Contents

Musical and songwriting style[link]

For her solo work (as well as her work with Frou Frou and Acacia), Heap plays heavily produced and arranged singer-songwriter pop incorporating elements of rock, dance and electronica. As a guest player and collaborator she has played rock (Jeff Beck), hip-hop (Urban Species) and theatre/film music.

I just love crafting and shaping sounds. Actually, many of the sounds that I work with start off as organic instruments - guitar, piano, clarinet, etc. But I do love the rigidity of electronic drums... I would record live drums, and then I would spend a day editing them to take the life out of them. I like to breathe my own life into these sounds, and I do try to keep the 'air' in the music. Some people think electronic music is cold, but I think that has more to do with the people listening than the actual music itself.

Imogen Heap[4]

A skilled multi-instrumentalist, Heap extensively uses manipulated electronic sounds as an integral part of her music. She also mixes ambient sound into her music (such as the sound of a frying pan in use cooking food, in the background of her song "My Secret Friend") and has commented that "certain sounds give the music a width and a space, and that's important."[4]

Heap states that her song lyrics come from personal experience, but are not straightforwardly confessional. She has stated "Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mum or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened."[4]

Biography[link]

Early life[link]

Heap played music from an early age, becoming classically trained in several instruments including piano, cello and clarinet. She attended Friends School, a private, Quaker-run boarding school in Saffron Walden. Heap's mother (an art therapist) and her father (a construction rock retailer) separated when she was twelve. By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs.

Heap did not get along well with the music teacher at her boarding school, so she principally taught herself sequencing, music engineering, sampling and production (on Atari computers). She also taught herself to play the guitar and drums, and subsequently two percussion/idiophone instruments, the array mbira and the Hang.[5] After school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon, South London.

Early work as musician (including work with Acacia)[link]

After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by his manager Mickey Modern, Heap and Kershaw recorded four demos that Mickey Modern took to Rondor Music. Consequently, a few months later she signed her first record contract at 18 to independent record label Almo Sounds[6]. Modern and Wood formed Modernwood Management, and managed Heap until 2006, when Modernwood was dissolved. Wood continues to manage the artist via his new company, Radius Music[7].

During 1996, Heap began working with an experimental pop band called Acacia, which featured her future collaborator Guy Sigsworth and was fronted by the singer Alexander Nilere. While never a full member of the band, Heap was a guest vocalist (as a counterpart to Nilere) and contributed to various Acacia single and album tracks. One Acacia song, "Maddening Shroud", would later be covered by Frou Frou[8].

Mickey Modern asked Dennis Arnold to place Imogen in the line up in the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park, London organized by Harvey Goldsmith. Heap performed four songs between sets by The Who and Eric Clapton.

[edit] 1998–2000: iMegaphone

Heap's debut album, iMegaphone (an anagram of "Imogen Heap") was a mixture of self-penned and self-produced tracks, alongside tracks co-written and produced with established producers such as David Kahne, former Eurythmic Dave Stewart and Guy Sigsworth. The album was released in 1998 internationally via Almo Sounds, to favorable reviews comparing Heap's angst-filled songs to work by PJ Harvey, Kate Bush and Annie Lennox. Promotion for the record included a tour of America and performances around Europe. Three singles were commercially released in the UK: "Getting Scared", "Shine" and "Come Here Boy". "Oh Me, Oh My" was sent to US radio stations in place of "Shine".

Heap's early success was soon replaced by problems. Almo Sounds cut funding for UK promotion and gave Heap a deadline to deliver songs for her second album. Upon delivery of the songs, she was told that they lacked "hit potential". It was announced that the record label would be sold to Universal and its artists moved to other labels or released. Heap was one of the artists who was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract. iMegaphone had, however, been licensed from Almo Sounds to Aozora Records in Japan, who eventually re-released and re-promoted the album in January 2002, featuring "Blanket" and "Aeroplane" (a Frou Frou remix/remake of one of her B-sides, "Airplane" of the Shine single released in 1998). The album featured new packaging, all-new artwork, and a previously unavailable hidden track, entitled "Kidding", recorded live during her 1999 tour.

Copies of the original Almo Sounds release remain rare. A Brazilian label, Trama Records, currently claims to hold the license to the record and has started re-printing copies of the album in limited quantities. The album was released digitally on the US iTunes Music Store in early 2006. After achieving commercial success with her work with Guy Sigsworth as the duo Frou Frou and her second solo album, Speak for Yourself, Heap was able to secure the re-release of iMegaphone.

2001: Interim work[link]

In the gap between the end of promotion for iMegaphone internationally and the re-promotion, Heap had also begun to think about her second solo album, and had started writing songs, both solo, as well as working with Guy Sigsworth; however, as she was without a record deal, the songs were shelved. During the time when she was unsigned, Heap appeared on two UK singles, "Meantime" (a track written by her former Acacia colleagues Guy Sigsworth and Alexander Nilere for the soundtrack to the independent British film, G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time) and "Blanket" (a collaboration with Urban Species). In 2000, Heap sang on the album You Had It Coming by Jeff Beck.

2002–2003: Frou Frou[link]

Heap had kept in contact with Guy Sigsworth (who had co-written and produced "Getting Scared" from iMegaphone) and this led to the pair of them establishing the collaborative project Frou Frou.

The initial concept for Frou Frou was Sigsworth's, and the project was to have been an album written and produced by her with each track featuring a different singer, songwriter, poet or rapper. Heap explains that Sigsworth invited her over to his studio to write lyrics to a four-bar motif he had, with one condition – that she include the word "love" somewhere. The first line she came up with was "lung of love, leaves me breathless", and the Details album track, "Flicks" was born. A week later, Sigsworth phoned Heap up again, and together they wrote and recorded the future single "Breathe In".

Throughout the process, Frou Frou work was an equal partnership, with Heap and Sigsworth making equal contributions to writing, arrangement, production and instrumental performance and Heap handling all of the vocals.

In August 2002, they released the Details album and singles "Breathe In", "It's Good To Be In Love", and "Must Be Dreaming" (although the latter two were not commercially available). The album was critically acclaimed, but did not enjoy the commercial success that they had been hoping for.

In late 2003, after an extensive promotional tour of the UK, Europe and the US, the duo were told that their record label, Island Records would not be picking up the option for a second album.

Heap and Sigsworth remain firm friends, and have worked together since the project, including their temporary re-formation in late 2003, when they covered the Bonnie Tyler classic, "Holding Out for a Hero", which was featured during the credits of the movie Shrek 2 after Jennifer Saunders version in the film. Frou Frou saw a resurgence in popularity in 2004, when their album track "Let Go" was featured in the film Garden State.

In a 2005 interview Heap said of frou frou "(it) was really like a kind of little holiday from my own work. Guy and I, we have always worked together, and then over the years, it became clear that we wanted to do a whole album together. It was very organic and spontaneous - just one of those wonderful things that happens. But there was never a mention of a second record from either of us, and not uncomfortably. We're just both kind of free spirits. I love to work with a lot of different people, but I was also just gagging to see what I could do on my own. But I'm sure in the future, Guy and I will get back together to do another record, or to record a few songs together."[4]

[edit] 2004–2005: The O.C. and Speak for Yourself

In December 2003, Heap announced on her Web site that she was going to write and produce her second solo album, using her site as a blog to publicise progress.

Heap set herself a deadline of one year to make the album, booking a session to master the album one year ahead in December 2004. She re-mortgaged her flat to fund production costs, including renting a studio at Atomic Studios, London (previously inhabited by UK grime artist, Dizzee Rascal), and purchasing instruments.

At the end of 2004, with the album completed, Heap premiered two album tracks online, selling them prior to the album's release – "Just for Now" and "Goodnight and Go".

In April 2005, The O.C. featured the vocoded-vocal track, "Hide and Seek" in the closing scenes of their season two finale. The track was released immediately to digital download services, such as iTunes, in the US, where it charted. The track was released to iTunes UK on 5 July 2005 (the same day as the UK airing of the season finale) and entered the official UK download chart.

Heap made a decision to put out the album on her own in the UK, starting her own record company, titled Megaphonic Records. The album was titled Speak for Yourself.

Speak for Yourself was released in the UK on 18 July 2005 on CD and iTunes UK, where it entered the top 10 chart. The initial 10,000 physical copies pressed sold out, distributed through large and independent record stores and Heap's own online shop.

In August 2005, Heap announced that she had licensed Speak for Yourself to Sony BMG imprint RCA Victor for the album release in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The album was released in November 2005 and debuted at #144 in the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In concert, Heap performed solo, controlling the sound through her Apple PowerBook laptop, as well as singing and playing the piano and array mbira.

She returned from the US, already having sold over 120,000 copies.

2006–2007: The year of the 'White Rabbit'[link]

Heap also announced, on her return to the UK, that she had signed a deal for the album to be released internationally, as well as re-promoted in the UK, with a new imprint of Sony BMG, White Rabbit, run by former Sony BMG UK A&R vice president Nick Raphael. The deal meant that the album could have the promotional backing provided by a respected major label, whilst Heap retained sole control and the team she established for Megaphonic Records.

Speak for Yourself was re-released on the label on 24 April 2006, ahead of a full promotional push on 15 May, a week after the second single, "Goodnight and Go", was commercially released in the UK.

In August 2006, Heap performed a set at the V Festival, where it was announced that "Headlock" was to be the third single to be lifted from the album, and released on 16 October 2006 in the UK.

In late September and early October, Heap embarked on a tour of the UK, holding a competition on MySpace for different support acts for each venue, before touring throughout Canada and the US in November and December. This was her first tour of North America that included a band, incorporating upright bass, percussion, and support acts Kid Beyond and Levi Weaver on beatbox and guitar, respectively. In December 2006, Heap was featured on the front page of The Green Room magazine.

On 7 December 2006, Heap received two Grammy nominations for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards, one for Best New Artist and the other for Best Song Written For Motion Picture, Television Or Other Visual Media for "Can't Take It In".

[edit] 2007–2009: Ellipse

Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse, Heap posted vlogs, or VBlogs as she called them, through YouTube.[9] She used these to comment on the album as well as update on its release. The album's release was pushed back multiple times. These included Heap being asked to perform at the annual event PopTech in October 2008. During the event, she premiered one of her album's songs, "Wait it Out".

Heap announced on her Twitter page that Ellipse's first single would be "First Train Home". On 17 August 2009 Heap made the entire album Ellipse available for live streaming via her webpage.

Ellipse was released in the United Kingdom on 24 August, and in the United States on 25 August.

[edit] 2011–present: Heapsongs

On 14 March 2011 Heap officially started work on a new record as fans sent in nearly 900 "sound seeds", or samples of everyday sounds such as a "dishwasher door", a "bicycle" or a "burning match". Heap has stated that the concept for this record will be to record one track over a two week period every 2 months. Each song and video will be released immediately.[10] According to her website, the album will be completed in roughly 1.5 years.

The first song, initially entitled #heapsong1 and later retitled "Lifeline", premiered worldwide on 28 March 2011 via Ustream[11] along with a live remix by Tim Exile. "Lifeline" was released on 30 March 2011 as a digital download from Imogen's website and via iTunes, Amazon and other digital retailers. Released alongside this was a 12 page 3DiCD package (a 3D virtual CD) including crowd sourced (and paid for) images, the instrumental version of the song, the "seeds and solos only" version and "heap speaks seeds and solos" - an-18 minute commentary by Heap on how the sounds and solos were used in "Lifeline".

On 6 May 2011 Heap tweeted that she and Deadmau5 were working on a collaboration. The song is tentatively titled "Telemisscommunications".[12][13][14]

List of heapsongs so far[link]

  1. heapsong1 is entitled "Lifeline" and was released on 30 March 2011.
  2. heapsong2 is entitled "Propeller Seeds" and was released on 5 July 2011.
  3. heapsong3 is entitled "Neglected Space" and was released on 17 October 2011.
  4. heapsong4 is entitled "Minds Without Fear" and was released on 21 October 2011. It was the first song to be featured on 2011 Indian show, The Dewarists.
  5. heapsong5 is entitled "Xizi She Knows" and was released on 24 January 2012. It is the fifth song off the forthcoming album overall.[15]
  6. heapsong6 is entitled "Me The Machine" and was performed live by Heap on 22 April 2012. The song premiered along with the film, Love the Earth, as part of Earth Day 2012.

Recordings for television and film[link]

Heap has recorded several songs for films, including a cover of the Classics IV hit "Spooky" for the soundtrack to the Reese Witherspoon film Just Like Heaven. Her song "Hide and Seek" was featured in The Last Kiss, starring Zach Braff (who used her former band Frou Frou's "Let Go" in his 2004 film Garden State), and was also used in a 2007 episode of Saturday Night Live, hosted by Shia LaBeouf. "The Moment I Said It" was also used in the episode "Seven Seconds" of the CBS crime drama Criminal Minds.

In 2004, while recording her second solo album, she was commissioned to record a cover of a short nursery rhyme for the HBO television series, Six Feet Under, entitled "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch)".

In late 2005, Heap was asked to write a track for the soundtrack of The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe entitled "Can't Take It In", when a track that fellow Brit singer Dido submitted was deemed unfitting. Heap's track is played at the end of the film in an orchestral version produced by Heap and Harry Gregson Williams, who scored the movie. In addition, she composed a track for the film The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian, but it was deemed to be too dark in tone for the film. Instead, it was included in her album Ellipse as "2-1". 2-1 has also featured in CSI Miami (Season 8 Episode 9), as well as promotional trailers for the film The Lovely Bones.

In March 2006, Heap completed a track about locusts, entitled "Glittering Cloud", for a CD of music about the plagues of Egypt entitled Plague Songs, accompanying The Margate Exodus project, for musical director Brian Eno.

Heap recorded an a cappella version of the Leonard Cohen track "Hallelujah", for the season three finale of The O.C., and her "Not Now But Soon" was included on the original soundtrack for the NBC show, Heroes.

Song usage[link]

Imogen Heap and Frou Frou songs have been featured in various TV shows, movies, advertisements, and marching band productions, notably including CSI, The OC, SNL, Garden State, and So You Think You Can Dance.

Also notable is the sampling of Heap's song "Hide & Seek" in Jason DeRulo's single "Whatcha Say",[16] which peaked at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The Bluecoats Drum and Bugle Corps used Heap's song "Aha" in their 2010 production titled, "Metropolis: The Future is Now"

The Pack rapper Young L's 2001 mixtape 'As I Float: The Great John Nash' makes extensive use of samples of Imogen Heap songs on nearly every track.

Collaborations[link]

Heap has collaborated as a guest vocalist, co-writer, remixer or producer with many various artists throughout her career. Among them co-writing and producing By The Time for Mika and Now or Never for Josh Groban. The diverse range of other musicians Heap has worked with include IAMX, Jeff Beck, Temposhark, LHB, J. Peter Schwalm, Way Out West, Jon Bon Jovi, Mich Gerber, Sean Lennon, Urban Species, Matt Willis, Jon Hopkins, MIKA, Acacia, Britney Spears, Nik Kershaw, Blue October, Joshua Radin, Nitin Sawhney, I Fight Dragons and Deadmau5.[12][13][14]

Use of technology[link]

Heap is an outspoken advocate of using new technology to interact and collaborate with her fans. In August 2009 she used Vokle, an online auditorium, to take questions from listeners over video chat.[17]

Imogen also teamed up with Vokle to hold open cello auditions for her North American tour. She provided sheet music for “Aha” on her website and encouraged local fans to learn the part and audition live via Vokle. Imogen would then pick the cellist to accompany her for that particular city - sometimes with the help of viewers and her puppet Lion, Harold.

In 2010 Imogen opened her online auditions to singers and choirs and invited them to audition via submitted YouTube videos to accompany her on stage as she performed the song "Earth" from Ellipse. The winner of each local show was also invited to do a 15 minute gig of their own. In the studio, the official album recording of "Earth" was made up entirely of numerous tracks of vocals.

July 2011 saw Imogen unveil a pair of in development, high-tech musical gloves at the TEDGlobal conference in Edinburgh, Scotland.[18] Inspired by the VAMP [19] system developed by Elly Jessop at MIT’s media lab, Imogen set out to develop the musical gloves in collaboration with Thomas Mitchell, a lecturer in music systems at the University of the West of England, Bristol. The gloves combine sensors developed by 5DT,[20] x-io Technologies [21] with Shure microphones.

Using nothing but hand gestures, Imogen is currently able to amplify/record/loop acoustic instruments and her voice, play virtual instruments and manipulate these sounds live. Imogen has for many years been working toward a less constricting live set up which enables her to be mobile while performing live multiple musical production tasks, songs and improvising spontaneously without the need 'to go back to basecamp'. The gloves enable the audience to instinctively understand and connect with the process of what's going on on stage - the 'hidden' 50% of her performance. This is part of a larger audio/visual performance project Imogen has been working towards for a couple of years with the aim of touring in 2013.

Charity[link]

In 2008 she participated in a music album called Songs for Tibet: The Art of Peace, which is an initiative to support Tibet, Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso and to underline the human rights situation in Tibet. The album was issued on 5 August via iTunes and on 19 August in music stores around the world.[22] On 12 October 2008, Heap also participated in "Run 10k: Cancer Research UK," placing fifth of the women in the actual run and raising over £1000 for the cause with the help of her fans.

In 2008 Imogen was asked to perform at POP!Tech in Camden, Maine (US). There she performed selections from her then forthcoming album Ellipse. After her set and an encouraging plea for another performance later in the conference by the audience and organizers, Imogen agreed. Having nothing else prepared though, she decided to improvise a song on the spot with parameters (tempo, key) suggested by the audience. After the show, Imogen was asked by a Poptech attendee if she would give the newly created piece of music to his charity. A ‘lightbulb’ moment occurred in Heap’s head and she saw the potential in doing these improvised pieces for local charities at each show during the tour she would soon begin.

The first of these songs materialized at Imogen’s show at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, in London on the 19th of February 2010. Using the same parameters and audience participation from POP!Tech, Imogen improvised a song titled, "The Shepherdess". After the show, Imogen made the song available worldwide as a digital download on her website asking for donations per download. All proceeds went to the Great Ormond Street Hospital where Imogen was diagnosed with osteomyelitis and underwent life-saving surgery as a little girl. Loving the concept, Imogen rolled this out for her North American Tour, donating all the proceeds for each song to a local charity from that city.

In 2011 Imogen was set to play a benefit concert in New Zealand's Christchurch city to help rebuild the Unlimited Paenga Tawhiti High School, following a severe 6.3 aftershock in February originating from the 7.1 earthquake that struck the Canterbury region in September 2010. The concert was held at the Burnside High Aurora Centre, also featuring performances from Roseanna Gamlen-Greene, and The Harbour Union including The Eastern, Lindon Puffin, Delaney Davidson and The Unfaithful Ways.[23]

Live 4 X[link]

In 2010, Imogen Heap partnered with Thomas Ermacora of Bubbletank[24] to organize a series of online charitable events called Live 4 X.

The initial event was inspired by the 2010 Pakistan floods. Triggered by monsoon rains, the floods left approximately one-fifth of the country of Pakistan underwater, affecting over 14 million people and damaging or destroying over 900,000 homes. Teaming up with Richard Branson’s Virgin Unite and Vokle.com, Heap and Ermacorda create an online webcast/fundraiser to raise awareness and money for the flood stricken. Hosted by comedian, creative, and internet personality Ze Frank, the webcast included a series of conversations with Cameron Sinclair of Architecture for Humanity, Gary Slutkin, and Anders Wilhelmson, (and later Richard Branson and Mary Robinson) with live performances by musicians Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Kate Havnevik, KT Tunstall, Josh Groban, Kaki King, Zoe Keating and Mark Isham.

The premise of Live 4 X thus established, Heap has since continued to refine the model, organize, host, and perform a number of charitable, streaming-live, concert events. By integrating live entertainment with educated discussion and technology, Live 4 X became an effective charitable outreach tool.

Following the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of 2011, Heap told Washington Times Communities journalist and recording artist Jennifer Grassman, that she intended to continue organizing Live 4 X events to benefit various charitable causes.[25]

Catalog of Live 4 X events to date:

Film[link]

After touring for nearly two years straight for her album Speak for Yourself Imogen continued her travels, this time with only a laptop and video camera on hand as she began her writing trip for her next album. Nine weeks later she returned to the UK with the beginnings of the award-winning Ellipse and footage (as requested by a fan to film the making of the album) from its quiet beginning. Back in Essex, Imogen sought the talents of long-time friend and film maker Justine Pearsall to continue documenting the creation of the album. The film documents every moment of joy, excitement, frustration, and even the renovation of the Imogen’s childhood home including turning her old playroom into her new home studio. Everything In-Between: The Story of Ellipse was released in November 2010.

On November 5, 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall, Heap conducted an orchestra (including friends and family) as they performed an original composition by Imogen herself orchestrated by Andrew Skeet. Heap also worked with London Contemporary Voices at this time, a scratch choir formed for this concert, which continues as a new choir in its own right. It was the score to the concept film Love The Earth - in creative partnership and co-production with Thomas Ermacora again for another Bubbletank production - in which fans were invited to submit video footage highlighting all of the breathtaking qualities of nature to be selected and edited into a film. This performance was broadcasted live worldwide.

In March for the Birds' Eye Festival at the Birds Eye View Film Festival at the Southbank Centre, Imogen composed in collaboration with Andrew Skeet an a cappella choral score to the first ever surrealist film ‘The Seashell and the Clergyman’ (Germaine Dulac, 1927) with the Holst Singers, a programme repeated at the Reverb Festival at the Roundhouse in February 2012 and in the Sage, Gateshead.

Heap also performed in the Film and Music Arena at Latitude Festival in 2011.

Discography[link]

Frou Frou[link]

  • Details (2002 • Island Records/MCA/Universal) (UK: #128)
  • "Breathe In" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal) (UK: #44)
  • "It's Good to be in Love" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)
  • "Must be Dreaming" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)
  • "Let Go" (Promotional single)

Guest appearances[link]

Compilation appearances[link]

References[link]

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  11. ^ http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/13627483
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  13. ^ a b https://twitter.com/#!/imogenheap/status/40273764264583168
  14. ^ a b https://twitter.com/#!/deadmau5/statuses/40276623743926272
  15. ^ http://blog.imogenheap.com/post/14563060722/west-lake-saying-goodbye-for-now-to-beautiful-life
  16. ^ WhoSampled - Jason Derülo's Whatcha Say sample of Imogen Heap's Hide and Seek
  17. ^ "NPR Interview With Imogen Heap". http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=112440133&m=112452741. Retrieved 2009-10-28. 
  18. ^ "Imogen Heap's musical gloves mix sounds on the fly". http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/07/musical-gloves-mix-sounds-on-t.html. Retrieved 201-07-11. 
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