Imogen Heap - Speak for yourself
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Find ich in der Tat hervorragend.
Hat eine sehr mystisch-schwebende Stimmung. So ein bisschen "American Beauty". Aber trotzdem nicht (wirklich) säuselnd.
Die Spannung zwischen verträumt und Elektro-Industrial-Pop-Rock macht's aus.
Das ganze Album ist zwar so ein bisschen depri, aber es ist für mich eines der wenigen Alben, wo ich kaum das Verlangen hab, zu skippen.
Hide and Seek ist durchs TV die bestimmt bekannteste Nummer. Find ich auch sensationell. Passt auch sehr gut ins Album. Aber es klingt nicht das ganze Album so.
arpjournal.com/597/imogen-heap-as-musical-cyborg-renegotiations-of-power-gender-and-sound
The most shocking song on the album, in terms of style and production, is the third release of the album, ‘Hide and Seek’. The song was played in ‘The O.C.’ Season Two finale and gained enormous popularity after that. Heap revealed through interviews that a breakdown of technology actually led to the creation of this song. Her new computer was malfunctioning due to a faulty power supply. This halted her work, but she decided not to leave her studio without any work done. So she picked up her harmonizer, plugged it into her keyboard via MIDI and recorded it on her eight-track mini-disc recorder. As she sang into the microphone and played notes on the keyboard, the harmonizer took that vocal input and shifted it to the other pitches depressed on the keyboard. Heap (2005) describes the process:
The only sound you can hear on Hide and Seek is my voice. There’s no keyboard noise. All those harmonies are a result of what notes I play on the keyboard, which then tells the harmonizer which notes to make my voice appear to sing. I can choose the amount of effect (harmonies) to show through. I used about 50/50. So you can hear unaffected natural voice too. The first thing I sang (luckily set to record) were the words “where are we? What the hell is going on?” I carried on playing and singing, reacting to the chord inversions the harmonizer was throwing at me (it was set to four-note polyphony, four notes at a time, but using most or all fingers on the keyboard, the box is forced to choose which notes to use out of a chord) and before my very ears a song had emerged out of nowhere.
Pickerl nicht sieht, sofern eines draufklebt.
