[[File:Jane Heap and Margaret Anderson.jpg|right|thumb|''Little Review'' reunion, with Jane Heap, Margaret Anderson, and George Antheil in Paris (1921)]] Jane Heap (1883 - 1964) was an American publisher and a significant figure in the development and promotion of literary modernism. Together with Margaret Anderson, her friend and business partner (who for some years was also her lover), she edited the celebrated literary magazine ''The Little Review'', which published an extraordinary collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. Heap herself has been called "one of the most neglected contributors to the transmission of modernism between America and Europe during the early twentieth century."

Life

Heap was born in Topeka, Kansas, where her father was the warden of the local mental asylum. After completing her high school education, she moved to Chicago, where she enrolled in the Art Institute of Chicago, and continued to take night school classes there even after she became an art teacher at the Lewis Institute.

It was while working at the Lewis Institute, in 1908, that she first met Florence Reynolds, a student and the daughter of a prosperous Chicago businessman. Reynolds and Heap became lovers, in 1910 travelling together to Germany, where Heap studied tapestry weaving. The two women remained friends throughout their lives, although they often lived apart, and despite the fact that Heap formed romantic attachments with many other women.

In 1912, Heap helped found Maurice Browne's Chicago Little Theatre, an influential avant-garde theatre group presenting the works of Chekhov, Strindberg and Ibsen and other contemporary works. In 1916, she met Margaret Anderson, and soon joined her as co-editor of the ''Little Review''. Although her work in the published magazine was relatively low profile (she signed her pieces simply "jh"), she was a bold and creative force behind the scenes.

In 1917 Anderson and Heap moved ''The Little Review'' to New York, and with the help of critic Ezra Pound, who acted as their foreign editor in London, ''The Little Review'' published some of the most influential new writers in the English language, including Hart Crane, T. S. Eliot, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, Pound himself, and William Butler Yeats. Other notable contributors included Sherwood Anderson, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Malcolm Cowley, Marcel Duchamp, Ford Madox Ford, Emma Goldman, Vachel Lindsay, Amy Lowell, Francis Picabia, Carl Sandburg, Gertrude Stein, Wallace Stevens, Arthur Waley, and William Carlos Williams. Even so, however, they once published an issue with 12 blank pages to protest the temporary lack of exciting new works.

In March 1918, Ezra Pound sent them the opening chapters of James Joyce's ''Ulysses'', which ''The Little Review'' serialized until 1920, when the U.S. Post Office seized and burned four issues of the magazine and convicted Anderson and Heap on obscenity charges. At their 1921 trial, they were fined $100 and forced to discontinue the serialization. Following the trial, Heap became the main editor of the magazine, taking over from Anderson, and introducing brightly coloured covers and experimental poetry from surrealists and Dadaists.

Gurdjieff

Heap met G. I. Gurdjieff during his 1924 visit to New York, and was so impressed with his philosophy that she set up a Gurdjieff study group at her apartment in Greenwich Village. In 1925, she moved to Paris, to study at Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man, where Margaret Anderson had moved the previous year alongside her new lover, soprano Georgette Leblanc. Although they now lived separately, Heap and Anderson continued to work together as co-editors of ''The Little Review'' until deciding to close the magazine in 1929. Heap also at this time adopted Anderson's two nephews, after Anderson's sister had had a nervous breakdown, and Anderson herself had shown no interest in becoming a foster mother.

Heap established a Paris Gurdjieff study group in 1927, which continued to grow in popularity through the early 1930s, when Kathryn Hulme (author of ''The Nun's Story'') and journalist Solita Solano (Sarah Wilkinson) joined the group. This developed into an all-women Gurdjieff study group known as "the Rope", taught jointly by Heap and by Gurdjieff himself.

In 1935, Gurdjieff sent Heap to London in 1935 to set up a new study group. She would remain in London for the rest of her life, including throughout The Blitz. Her study group became very popular with certain sections of the London avant-garde, and after the war its students included the future theatre producer and director, Peter Brook.

Work

Apart from her ''Little Review'' work, Heap never in her lifetime published an account of her ideas, although both Hulme and Anderson published collections of memoirs, and particularly their memories of working with Gurdjieff. After Heap's death from diabetes in 1964, former students put together a collection of her aphorisms (both her own and Gurdjieff's) and, in 1983, some notes reflecting her expression of some of the key Gurdjieff ideas. Some of her aphorisms are given below:

Never oppose someone with the same center, always offer another one.

Do not sit too long in the same place.

You are responsible for what you have understood.

Little steps for little feet.

Suppress natural reaction and pay for it later.

We never refuse in the Work.

Animals are nature's experiments and embody all the emotions.

A cat is all essence. Essence remembers.

All that falls from the wagon is lost.

References

Further reading

Bibliography

''Dear Tiny Heart: The Letters of Jane Heap and Florence Reynolds'', edited by Holly A. Baggett, (New York University Press., 1999)

External links

Potted biography of Jane Heap by Rob Baker for the Gurdjieff International Review

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Emma Jane (born November 1969), previously known as Emma Tom, is an Australian media commentator.

She writes a weekly column for ''The Australian'' newspaper and also makes regular appearances on Australian television and radio.

She has written six books including ''Deadset'', a first novel which won the 1998 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book for South East Asia and the South Pacific.

She has sung and played bass in Australian rock bands The Titanics (with her then-husband David McCormack) and 16dd, and is completing a PhD at the University of New South Wales' Journalism and Media Research Centre (JMRC).

Works

''Deadset'', Vintage, 1997, ISBN 9780091834418

''Babewatch'', Hodder Headline, 1998, ISBN 9780733609541

''Evidence'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2002, ISBN 9780732273965

''Something about Mary: From Girl about Town to Crown Princess'', Pluto Press, 2005, ISBN 9781864032734

''Bali: paradise lost?'', Pluto Press Australia, 2006, ISBN 9781864033533

''Attack of the Fifty-Foot Hormones: Your One-Stop Survival Guide to Staying Sane During Pregnancy'', HarperCollins Publishers Australia, 2009, ISBN 9780732286729

References

External links

Category:1969 births Category:Living people Category:Australian columnists Category:Australian television personalities Category:Australian novelists Category:Australian musicians Category:Australian academics

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name	Imogen Heap
background	solo_singer
birth name	Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap
birth date	December 09, 1977
gender	Female
origin	Havering, London, England
instrument	Vocals, keyboards, array mbira, cello, clarinet, guitar, drums, keytar, nail violin, vocal percussion, synthesizer, sampler, organ, hang, vocoder
genre	Electronica, alternative, indie, synthpop, Folktronica, ambient, trip hop, rock, classical
occupation	Musician, singer, songwriter, visual artist
years active	1997–present
label	Almo Sounds (1998–2001)Megaphonic (2005–present)RCA Victor (2006–present)
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Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap () (born 9 December 1977 in the London Borough of Havering) is a Grammy Award-winning English singer, composer and songwriter from Romford, Havering. 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.

Musical and songwriting style

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. 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."

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."

Biography

Early life

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 age 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. 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)

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. 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.

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.

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.

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 U.S. 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''.

2001: Interim work

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

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 U.S., 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."

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 U.S., 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 U.S., already having sold over 120,000 copies.

2006–2007: The year of the 'White Rabbit'

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 USA 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".

2007–2009: ''Ellipse''

Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse, Heap posted vlogs, or VBlogs as she called them, through YouTube. 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.

2011: New "concept" album

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 3 months. Each song and video will be released immediately.

The first song, initially titled #heapsong1 and later retitled "Lifeline", premiered worldwide on 28 March 2011 via Ustream 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". The whole project can be viewed on the #heapsong1 / Lifeline mini site.

#heapsong2 is entitled "Propeller Seeds" and was released on 5 July 2011.

Recordings for television and film

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

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", which peaked at #1 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

Collaborations

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 and Nitin Sawhney.

Use of technology

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.

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 high-tech musical gloves at the TED conference in Edinburgh, Scotland. The gloves which were created by Tom Mitchell, a lecturer in music systems at the University of the West of England, Bristol allow Imogen to manipulate sounds using nothing but hand gestures live on stage.

Charity

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. 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 (USA). 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.

Live 4 X

In 2010, Imogen Heap partnered with Thomas Ermacora of Bubbletank 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, Mark Pearson, 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.

Catalog of ''Live 4 X'' events to date:

August 31, 2010 – ''Live 4 Pakistan'' raised funds for flood relief and recovery in that region. Musicians included Ben Folds, Amanda Palmer, Kate Havnevik, KT Tunstall, Josh Groban, and Zoe Keating. In an ironic turn of events, Heap, was kept from appearing on ''Live 4 Pakistan'' due to Hurricane Earl which at the time was progressing along the US eastern seaboard. Heap, stranded and unable to get an internet connection, later posted a video message as well as a performance of her song “Wait It Out” from ''Ellipse''. February 3, 2011 – ''Live 4 Capetown'' April 11, 2011 – ''Live 4 Sendai'' raised funds for Japanese tsunami recovery following the disastrous Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. The event was also used to solicit rebuilding design ideas on behalf of Architecture for Humanity. Performers included Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, KT Tunstall and Jamie Cullum and hosted by Ze Frank.

Film

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'' is scheduled to be 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. 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 BFi 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.

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

Discography

1998: ''iMegaphone''

2005: ''Speak For Yourself''

2009: ''Ellipse''

Frou Frou

''Details'' (2002 • Island Records/MCA/Universal) (UK: #128)

"Breathe In" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal) (UK: #44)

"Its Good To Be In Love" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)

"Must Be Dreaming" (single) (2002 • Island Records/Universal)

"Let Go" (Promotional single)

Guest appearances

''Hate'' EP by Acacia (1996 • Radar Records)

''Sway'' EP by Acacia (1996 • Radar Records)

''Maddening Shroud'' EP by Acacia (1997 • WEA)

''Cradle'' by Acacia – all tracks except "Wire" (1997 • WEA)

''Blanket'' by Urban Species – "Blanket" and "Predictably Unpredictable" (1998)

''Amor Fati'' by Mich Gerber – "Embers of Love", "Sirens Call (Qishm)" and "Mare" (2000)

''¡Viva Nueva!'' by Rustic Overtones – "Valentine's Day Massacre" (2001 • Tommy Boy Records)

''You Had It Coming'' by Jeff Beck – "Dirty Mind" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'" (2001 • Sony Music)

''Tell 'Em Who We Are'' by LHB – "Coming Up For Air" (2003 • Telstar TV)

''Contact Note'' by Jon Hopkins – "Second Sense" (2004 • Just Music)

''It's Better To Have Loved EP'' by Temposhark – "Not That Big (Metronomy Remix)" (2005 • Paper & Glue)

''Foiled'' by Blue October – "Congratulations" (2006 • Universal Records)

''Musikain'' by J. Peter Schwalm – "P.I.N." (2006 • Musikain Records)

''The Invisible Line'' by Temposhark – "Not That Big" (2007 • Paper & Glue)

''London Undersound'' by Nitin Sawhney – "Bring It Home" (2008 • Cooking Vinyl)

''Kingdom of Welcome Addiction'' by IAMX – "My Secret Friend" (2009 • Metropolis Records)

''The Boy Who Knew Too Much'' by Mika – "By The Time" (2009 • Casablanca Records)

''Live at Ronnie Scott's - Jeff Beck - (2008 • Eagle Records) - (2009 • DVD)

Compilation appearances

''New Dawn (Class of '94)'' – "Missing You" – (1994)

''I Still Know What You Did Last Summer'' soundtrack – "Getting Scared" – (1998 • Warner Music Group)

''Virtual Sexuality'' soundtrack – "Come Here Boy" – (1998 • EMI)

''G:MT – Greenwich Mean Time'' soundtrack – "Mean Time" (with GMT) – (1999 • Island Records/Universal)

''Serve Chilled'' – "Blanket" (with Urban Species) – (1999 • Hed Kandi)

''Women Talking Dirty'' soundtrack – "Getting Scared" – (2001 • Polygram International)

''American Psycho 2: All American Girl'' soundtrack – "Angry Angel" – (2002 • Rondor Music (London) Ltd)

''Garden State'' – "Let Go" – (2004 • Epic Records/Sony BMG)

''Nearing Grace'' Soundtrack – "The Walk" – (2005 • Sony BMG)

''Music from the OC: Mix 4'' – "Goodnight and Go" – (2005 • Warner Music Group)

''Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends'' – "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia (In An Onion Patch)" – (2005 • Astralwerks/EMI)

''Just Like Heaven'' Soundtrack – "Spooky" – (2005 • Sony BMG)

''Music from the OC: Mix 5'' – "Hide and Seek" – (2005 • Warner Music Group)

''The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'' – "Can't Take It In" – (2005 • Disney Records/EMI)

''The Last Kiss'' soundtrack – "Hide and Seek" – (2005 • Lakeshore Pictures)

''Plague Songs'' – "Glittering Clouds (Locusts)" – (2006 • 4AD)

''So You Think You Can Dance (US)'' – "Hide and Seek" – (2006)

''So You Think You Can Dance (US)'' – "Let Go" – (2006)

''The Black Donnellys'' – "The Moment I Said It" – (2007)

''In Search of Sunrise 6'' – "Hide and Seek" (Tiëstos' In Search Of Sunrise Remix) – (2007)

''The Holiday'' – "Just For Now" and "Let Go" (Under 'Frou Frou') – (2006)

''So You Think You Can Dance'' – "The Moment I Said It" – (2007)

''Heroes'' Original Soundtrack – "Not Now, But Soon" – (2008 • NBC Records)

''Criminal Minds'' – "The Moment I Said It" – (2008)

''Songs For Tibet – The Art of Peace''' – "Hide & Seek 2" – (2008)

''Greys Anatomy'' – "Bad Body Double" – (2009)

''So You Think You Can Dance (US)'' - "Aha!" - (2009)

''The Vampire Diaries'' - "Wait it Out" - (2009)

''Melrose Place - "Aha!" - (2009)

''Powder Blue'' - "Blanket" - (2009)

''Chuck'' – "Wait it Out" – (2010)

''CSI: NY'' - "Wait it Out" - (2010)

References

External links

Official website

Imogen Heap, french website.

Imogen Heap's New Music Business Model

Bob Lefsetz on Imogen Heap

Auralgasms Interview From January 2006

Imogen Heap video interview on TiFFcast, November 2006

Portrait of Imogen Heap on 365portraits.com

Imogen Heap plays the Array mbira on numerous recordings and in concert

Review of First Train Home at Daily Music Guide

Interview with Jessica Lewis at "Exclaim!"

Interview with Imogen Heap for www.4ortherecord.com

Photo Report @ Milano (2010)

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Jeanne Matignon de Salzmann born Jeanne Allemand often addressed as Madame de Salzmann (1889 – 25 May 1990) was a close pupil of G. I. Gurdjieff, recognized as his deputy by many of Gurdjieff's other pupils. She was responsible for transmitting the movements and teachings of Gurdjieff through the Gurdjieff Foundation of New York, the Gurdjieff Institute of Paris and other formal and informal groups throughout the world.

Madame de Salzmann began her career at the Conservatory of Geneva, studying piano, orchestral conduction and musical composition. Later a student of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze in Germany from 1912, she taught dance and rhythmic movements. She met her husband Alexandre de Salzmann in Hellerau at Dalcroze's school. With him she had a daughter, Boussique. The Russian revolution triggered a move for Jeanne and her husband Alexandre to Tiflis, Georgia where she continued to teach.

In 1919, Thomas de Hartmann introduced the de Salzmanns to George Gurdjieff, a relationship that would last until Gurdjieff's death in 1949. She worked with Gurdjieff for nearly 30 years.

In December 1949, together with Henriette H. Lannes, Jane Heap and J. G. Bennett she initiated the startup of an organization, which would eventually become the Gurdjieff Foundation, to continue the Gurdjieff Work. On 6 October 1955 ''The Society for Research into the Development of Man Ltd.'' was founded. This organization later changed to ''The Gurdjieff Society Ltd.'', on the 17 June 1957. She led the organization and continued Gurdjieffs teachings, emphasizing work with the movements, until she died, 101 years old in 1990.

Her son by Gurdjieff, Michel de Salzmann born 1923, took over the leadership of the organization.

References

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Name	Layah Jane
Background	solo_singer
Instrument	Vocals, piano, keyboards
Occupation	Musician, singer-songwriter
Genre	Folk, soul
Label	Grace Note Records
Associated acts	Oliver Johnson
Website	www.layahjane.com }}

Layah Jane is a soul-folk singer from Toronto, Ontario, Canada. She and her sister were raised by a psychotherapist/singer-songwriter father and a poet mother who teaches writing.

Though she took piano lessons as a child and attended an arts high school, she later resisted further formal training. She plays acoustic guitar and keyboards.

Jane has appeared at the Rochester International Jazz Festival, The Ottawa Folk Festival, Toronto Winterfolk Festival, Toronto City Roots Festival, North by Northeast Music Festival, Blue Skies Music Fest and New Music West. Her voice and songs have also been heard in The Dove Self Esteem Fund's 2006 "True Colors" TV campaign, on Global TV's ''Blue Murder'', and on ESPN's ''Tilt''.

She has collaborated with a collection of Canada's finest musicians: Ben Riley (Bruce Cockburn), Mark Mariash (Ron Sexsmith, Sarah Slean), Bryden Baird (Feist), Mark McLean (Serena Ryder, Molly Johnson), Lyle Molzan (Jann Arden), Marc Rogers (K'naan, Philosopher Kings), Brian MacMillan (Kevin Hearn, Barenaked Ladies) and Burke Carroll (Kathleen Edwards) among others.

She was nominated for the 2008 Toronto Independent Music Award for Best Folk Artist, but lost to Angie Nussey

She tours with Oliver Johnson.

Discography

''Layah Jane'' (2001)

''Grievance and Gratitude'' (2005)

''Grievance and Gratitude Remixes'' (2005)

''Patience'' EP (2007)

''Brightness & Bravery'' (2008)

Awards

CBC Galaxie Rising Star Award (2005)

Ontario Council of Folk Festival's Songs from The Heart Best Political Song Award (2005)

Toronto Independent Music Awards (Best Jazz, 2006)

Ontario Independent Music Award (Best Folk, 2007)

Ontario Independent Music Award (Best Female Artist, 2008)

References

Category:Living people Category:Canadian folk singers Category:Musicians from Toronto