Imogen Heap

Imogen Heap will be Musician in Residence in Hangzhou, China

About her trip to Hangzhou Imogen told us, “Many eyes are on China to see where she goes. To be a part of that blossoming journey from the inside for a few weeks will be inspiring. I’m not planning to go to China with prepared ideas; I want to react to the unique experiences I will encounter and I want to work with the people I meet to create new works which will include the next song release toward my current 4th solo album.”

Imogen, who won a Grammy (Best Engineered Album ‘Ellipse’) earlier this year, is an artist who is very much ahead of the curve when it comes to social media and her music (check out the ‘Twitdress’ she wore when accepting her Grammy award). Indeed, the connection to her fans is so strong that they were invited to write her biography using Twitter –

She is: …an innovative singer-songwriter with a quirky and inspirational character, a tech savvy musician with an eccentric sense of style and uniquely graceful music, Imogen Heap is a profoundly English artist whose songs transcend time and place to conjure captivating digital dreamscapes of love, loss and hopefulness.

Imogen’s distinct, eclectronic-style, a brilliant kaleidoscopic symphony of voices, beats, sounds and emotions – mixing beautiful lyrics with breathtaking Imogen Heapmelodies, traditional instrumentation with computers, to create a sound that’s folk-hued and digital and sparks the imagination – has won her over 350,000 friends on MySpace and more than 250,000 followers on Twitter. Fans include Brian Eno, Jeff Beck and Scrubs star Zach Braff, while US chat show hosts David Letterman, Jay Leno, Carson Daly and Hollywood mega blogger, Perez Hilton, have all championed her ability, musically and physically, to transfix. Imogen is, in all senses, an EXPERIENCE.