5: Imogen Heap | Making Space

Multi-award-winning artist, producer, composer, and technologist Imogen Heap joins Roundhouse CEO and Artistic Director Marcus Davey on the latest episode of Making Space: Exploring Creativity, Society, and the Roundhouse.  

Heap reflects on creativity, improvisation, neurodiversity, technology, failure, success, flow states, and her two-decade relationship with the Roundhouse. Following her acclaimed performance at the Roundhouse Three Sixty Festival, Heap also reveals that the experience has inspired a new live creative identity, Him Gone Ape, through which she plans to explore fully improvised performance and experimental music-making. She notes: “Improvisation is what I really want to do… it feels effortless, like you’re on a current”.

We also hear about Imogen’s short lived career as a palm reader and her political ambitions if the Green Party gets in!

Making Space is a six-episode series, featuring intimate conversations with leading artists and thinkers connected to the Roundhouse. Previous episodes welcomed Oscar-winning actor, writer, producer, and director Daniel Kaluuya, internationally renowned artist Sir Antony Gormley,poet and former Young People's Laureate for London, Cecilia Knapp and internationally renowned dancer and choreographer, Akram Khan.
The Roundhouse is a youth charity and independent multi-arts venue based in Camden, London. Set within a Grade II* listed performance space, it is the UK’s leading creative centre for young people, engaging more than 10,000 young people annually through its creative youth programme.

Credits
Guest: Imogen Heap
Host: Marcus Davey
Audio Producer: Mia Campbell
Editor: Sarah Warren
Theme music by Shunaji
Senior Producer: Marie Horner