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135-513: Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap ( / ˈ ɪ m ə dʒ ə n ˈ h iː p / IM -ə-jən HEEP ; born 9 December 1977) is an English musician, singer, songwriter and record producer. Her work has been considered pioneering in pop and electropop music. Heap classically trained in piano, cello, and clarinet starting at a young age. She began writing songs at the age of 13 and, while attending boarding school, taught herself music production. After being discovered by manager Mickey Modern while attending

270-473: A chorus that contrasts melodically, rhythmically and harmonically with the verse . The beat and the melodies tend to be simple, with limited harmonic accompaniment. The lyrics of modern pop songs typically focus on simple themes – often love and romantic relationships – although there are notable exceptions. Harmony and chord progressions in pop music are often "that of classical European tonality , only more simple-minded." Clichés include

405-561: A walled garden in Bedfords Park in October 2011. She starred in the debut episode of the MTV India musical reality television series The Dewarists , where she recorded "Minds Without Fear", her fourth single from Sparks , with Indian production duo Vishal–Shekhar . Both "Neglected Space" and "Minds Without Fear" were released in October 2011. Heap recorded her song "Xizi She Knows" during

540-426: A cellist like Holst. She played music from an early age, first learning the piano due to "wanting attention" as a middle child and realizing, according to her, that "it was something [she] could make a lot of noise with". She did not enjoy playing the music of classical composers such as Bach and Beethoven , and would instead attempt to play in their style to convince her parents she was practicing their music. As

675-510: A child, she began recording music by recording herself playing piano on cassette , then recording herself again singing over it. She soon began taking lessons and became classically trained in several instruments including piano , cello and clarinet while attending Friends School , a private, Quaker -run boarding school in Saffron Walden . At around age 10, she began composing Christmas carols for her school's choir. Due to being placed

810-406: A common cultural art activity, in art therapy programs. These art therapy activities were part of studies that focused on self esteem and proved that art therapy significantly, "...increased inner strength and daily living skills and reduced symptoms of emotional disorders...". Other forms of therapy that tend to help individuals with autism include play therapy and ABA therapy . In India, a study

945-662: A construction rock retailer, separated when she was twelve years old. Also at age twelve, she taught herself how to use Cubase on an Atari computer at Friends School. By the age of thirteen, she had begun writing songs. At age fifteen, she began using reel-to-reel recording to record her music, using a home computer to program the music. After boarding school, she went on to study at the BRIT School for Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon , South London , where she first began regularly singing and writing songs due to loneliness. It

1080-488: A deeper understanding of how the mind is affected by mental illness, Adamson's Collection started as a way to create an environment where patients felt comfortable expressing themselves through art. This art would then be analyzed by mental health professionals. Other early proponents of art therapy in Britain include E. M. Lyddiatt, Michael Edwards , Diana Raphael-Halliday and Rita Simons. The British Association of Art Therapists

1215-557: A drawing test to measure the intelligence in children called the Draw-A-Man test which posited the notion that a child who incorporated more detail into a drawing was more intelligent than one who did not. Goodenough and other researchers concluded the test had just as much to do with personality as it did intelligence. Several other psychiatric art assessments were created in the 1940s and are still used today. However, many art therapists eschew diagnostic testing and some writers question

1350-487: A full member of the band, Heap was a guest vocalist and contributed to various Acacia singles and album tracks. Heap's first major live solo performance was as part of the line-up for the 1996 Prince's Trust Concert in Hyde Park . Heap's debut commercial single, "Getting Scared", was released in 1997 and included on the soundtrack for the 1998 horror film I Still Know What You Did Last Summer . She released her debut album,

1485-407: 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

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1620-434: A landscape photograph in a hospital room had reduced need for narcotic pain killers and less time in recovery at the hospital. In addition, either looking at or creating art in hospitals helped stabilize vital signs, speed up the healing process, and increase optimism in patients. Many studies have been conducted on the benefits of art therapy on cancer patients. Art therapy has been found useful for supporting patients during

1755-399: A light entertainment and easy listening tradition. Pop music is more conservative than other music genres such as folk, blues, country, and tradition. Many pop songs do not contain themes of resistance, opposition, or politics, rather focusing more on love and relationships. Therefore, pop music does not challenge its audiences socially, and does not cause political activism. Frith also said

1890-399: 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." In December 2003, Heap announced on her website that she was going to write and produce her second solo album, using her site as a blog to publicise progress. Heap recorded a rendition of

2025-463: A master or doctoral degree in art therapy or certification in art therapy obtained after a graduate degree in a related field. Other professionals, such as Clinical mental health counseling , social workers, psychologists, and play therapists, optionally combine artmaking with basic psychotherapeutic modalities in their treatment. Therapists may better understand a client's absorption of information after assessing elements of their artwork. While there

2160-516: A monthly fee, and began work on a project called "Augmented Imogen", meant to be an AI version of herself. She released the single "Last Night of an Empire" in December 2020. In late March 2022, Imogen Heap partnered with Symphonic Distribution to re-release previous material, including a handful of Frou Frou demos, which will compile into the Off Cuts release. The first single "A New Kind of Love (Demo)"

2295-407: A music researcher, states pop music as any type of music that a person has been exposed to by the mass media. Most individuals think that pop music is just the singles charts and not the sum of all chart music. The music charts contain songs from a variety of sources, including classical , jazz , rock , and novelty songs . As a genre, pop music is seen to exist and develop separately. Therefore,

2430-488: A new single for the album once every three months, beginning with the recording and release of the album's lead single, then released under the working title "Heapsong1" and eventually released commercially as "Lifeline", via Ustream . "Propeller Seeds", the second single, followed in July 2011. The third single from the album, "Neglected Space", was created as part of Heap's project with charity organization Clear Village to restore

2565-400: A person with a safe space to express their feelings and allow them to feel more in control over their life. There are three main ways that art therapy is employed. The first one is called analytic art therapy. Analytic art therapy is based on the theories that come from analytical psychology , and in more cases, psychoanalysis . Analytic art therapy focuses on the client, the therapist, and

2700-498: A pop song is to them, songs from the 1960s turned out to be the most memorable, significantly more than songs from recent years 2000 to 2015. Before the progressive pop of the late 1960s, performers were typically unable to decide on the artistic content of their music. Assisted by the mid-1960s economic boom, record labels began investing in artists, giving them the freedom to experiment, and offering them limited control over their content and marketing. This situation declined after

2835-540: A powerful tool for relieving depression symptoms because it can instill confidence, create room for expression, and foster creativity, which has been linked to decreases in anxiety, rigid behaviors, and even physical ailments, such as heart disease and cancer. Art allows individuals to process emotions they might not have known they were dealing with or help express emotions they weren't verbally able to communicate. Creativity and creation can both be capable of lending tremendous confidence to an individual, which can lift some of

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2970-400: A professional counseling or mental health counseling. Art therapists must have a master's degree that includes training in the creative process, psychological development, and group therapy, and they must complete a clinical internship. Depending on the state, province, or country, the term "art therapist" may be reserved for those who are professionals trained in both art and therapy and hold

3105-435: A psychotherapeutic relationship." The website Psychology.org defines art therapy as: "a tool therapists use to help patients interpret, express, and resolve their emotions and thoughts. Patients work with an art therapist to explore their emotions, understand conflicts or feelings that are causing them distress, and use art to help them find resolutions to those issues." As a regulated mental health profession, art therapy

3240-455: A separation which was "also, broadly, one between boys and girls, middle-class and working-class." The latter half of the 20th century included a large-scale trend in American culture in which the boundaries between art and pop music were increasingly blurred. Between 1950 and 1970, there was a debate of pop versus art. Since then, certain music publications have embraced the music's legitimacy,

3375-452: A social identity that resisted being defined by cancer. Finally, it allowed them to express their feelings in a symbolic manner, especially during chemotherapy. Another study showed those who participated in these types of activities were discharged earlier than those who did not participate. Even relatively short-term art therapy interventions may significantly patients' emotional states and symptoms. A review of twelve studies investigated

3510-471: A song which would be proven to "make babies happy", which was eventually titled "The Happy Song". The track was engineered through several months of scientific testing and was released in October 2016. Heap wrote, produced and recorded the song "Magic Me" as the score for the 2017 animated short film Escape , which premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in April of that year. Heap also recorded "The Quiet" as

3645-450: 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 May 2005, Heap released the lead single from her forthcoming album, " Hide and Seek ". The song earned immense popularity after being used to score

3780-416: A tendency to reflect existing trends rather than progressive developments ; and seeks to encourage dancing or uses dance-oriented rhythms. The main medium of pop music is the song, often between two and a half and three and a half minutes in length, generally marked by a consistent and noticeable rhythmic element , a mainstream style and a simple traditional structure . The structure of many popular songs

3915-472: A thriving pop music industry, most of which is devoted to Western-style pop. Japan has for several years produced a greater quantity of music than everywhere except the US. The spread of Western-style pop music has been interpreted variously as representing processes of Americanization, homogenization , modernization, creative appropriation, cultural imperialism , or a more general process of globalization . One of

4050-483: A trend referred to as " poptimism ". Throughout its development, pop music has absorbed influences from other genres of popular music. Early pop music drew on traditional pop , an American counterpart to German Schlager and French Chanson , however compared to the pop of European countries, traditional pop originally emphasized influences ranging from Tin Pan Alley songwriting, Broadway theatre , and show tunes . As

4185-531: A trip to Hangzhou , which was partially funded by PRS for Music and the British Council . It was released as the fifth single from the album in February 2012. "You Know Where to Find Me" was then released as the album's sixth single. She collaborated with Canadian record producer Deadmau5 on the song " Telemiscommunications ", which was included on his 2012 studio album, Album Title Goes Here , and released as

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4320-442: A vast number of other approaches such as person-centered , cognitive , behavior , Gestalt , narrative , Adlerian , and family . The tenets of art therapy involve humanism , creativity, reconciling emotional conflicts, fostering self-awareness, and personal growth. In the history of mental health treatment, art therapy (combining studies of psychology and art) is still a relatively new field. This type of unconventional therapy

4455-459: A year above children her age, Heap claims she did not get along with many people from the school and spent most of her time in the music room practising piano. She stated, "In boarding school...I was mocked about the clothes I wore, the way I looked, whatever. People there really did regard me as some kind of freak from the middle of nowhere. And these things do matter a lot when you are sixteen, seventeen." Heap's mother, an art therapist , and father,

4590-425: Is all the collective clubs around the world. Radio is just doing its best to keep up." Songs that talked of escapism through partying became the most popular, influenced by the impulse to forget the economic troubles that had taken over the world after the 2008 crash . Throughout the 2010s, a lot of pop music also began to take cues from Alternative pop . Popularized by artists such as Lana Del Rey and Lorde in

4725-522: Is also thought to promote emotional and mental growth by allowing self-expression, visual communication, and creativity. Most importantly, studies have found that painting, drawing, or music therapies may allow people with autism to communicate in a manner more comfortable for them than speech. In Egypt, the Egyptian Autism Society implemented Art Therapy as a way to grow self esteem and quality of life in children. They incorporated basket weaving,

4860-474: Is available to view online. Pop music Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and hooks , short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus structure ), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, urban , dance , Latin , and country . The terms popular music and pop music are often used interchangeably, although

4995-409: Is better suited to the person. Art therapist Dr. Ellen G. Horovitz wrote, "My responsibilities vary from job to job. It is wholly different when one works as a consultant or in an agency as opposed to private practice. In private practice, it becomes more complex and far reaching. If you are the primary therapist, then your responsibilities can swing from the spectrum of social work to the primary care of

5130-499: Is considered a mood disorder characterized by distorted or inconsistent emotional states that interfere with an individual’s ability to function". Since art therapy was originated in the psychotherapy field, just like the other mental-health related issues art therapy has been a new technique used to help individuals with depression and anxiety. Art therapy is not solely just using the basic traditional mediums of art, it can range from painting, dancing, writing, knitting, etc Art can be

5265-416: Is employed in many clinical and other settings with diverse populations. It is increasingly recognized as a valid form of therapy. Art therapy can also be found in non-clinical settings as well, such as in art studios and creativity development workshops. Licensing for art therapists can vary from state to state with some recognizing art therapy as a separate license and some licensing under a related field such

5400-652: Is essentially conservative". It is, "provided from on high (by record companies, radio programmers, and concert promoters) rather than being made from below (...) Pop is not a do-it-yourself music but is professionally produced and packaged". According to Frith, characteristics of pop music include an aim of appealing to a general audience, rather than to a particular sub-culture or ideology, and an emphasis on craftsmanship rather than formal "artistic" qualities. Besides, Frith also offers three identifying characteristics of pop music: light entertainment, commercial imperatives, and personal identification. Pop music grew out of

5535-403: Is important that the art tools are easy to use and relatively simple to understand. Art therapy had no clear results on affecting memory or emotional well-being scales. However, Alzheimer's Association states that art and music can enrich people's lives and allow for self-expression. D.W. Zaidel, a researcher and therapist at VAGA , claims that engagement with art can stimulate specific areas of

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5670-554: Is largely the story of the intertwining pop culture of the United States and the United Kingdom in the postwar era. According to Grove Music Online , "Western-derived pop styles, whether coexisting with or marginalizing distinctively local genres, have spread throughout the world and have come to constitute stylistic common denominators in global commercial music cultures". Some non-Western countries, such as Japan, have developed

5805-462: Is most in line with the tastes and interests of the urban middle class." The term "pop song" was first used in 1926, in the sense of a piece of music "having popular appeal". Hatch and Millward indicate that many events in the history of recording in the 1920s can be seen as the birth of the modern pop music industry, including in country , blues , and hillbilly music . According to the website of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians ,

5940-486: Is not essential, therefore they stress the creation process of the art instead. In all approaches to art therapy, the art therapist's client utilizes paint, paper and pen, clay, sand, fabric, or other media to understand and express their emotions. Art therapy can be used to help people improve cognitive and sensory motor function, self-esteem, self-awareness, and emotional resilience. It may also aide in resolving conflicts and reduce distress. Current art therapy includes

6075-399: Is still little consistent research about art therapy, preliminary surveys and studies have suggested its efficacy in relieving symptoms and improving quality of life. A review of the literature has shown the influence of art therapy on patient care and found that participants in art therapy programs have less difficulty sleeping, among other benefits. Studies have found that merely observing

6210-430: Is that of a verse and a chorus, the chorus serving as the portion of the track that is designed to stick in the ear through simple repetition both musically and lyrically. The chorus is often where the music builds towards and is often preceded by "the drop" where the bass and drum parts "drop out". Common variants include the verse-chorus form and the thirty-two-bar form , with a focus on melodies and catchy hooks , and

6345-444: Is used to cultivate self-esteem and awareness, improve cognitive and motor abilities, resolve conflicts or stress, and inspire resilience in patients. It invites sensory, kinesthetic , perceptual, and sensory symbolization to address issues that verbal psychotherapy cannot reach. Although art therapy is a relatively young therapeutic discipline, its roots lie in the use of the arts in the ' moral treatment ' of psychiatric patients in

6480-583: The Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism to incorporate historical art and symbols into their work with patients. Art therapy can take place in a variety of different settings. Art therapists may vary the goals of art therapy and the way they provide art therapy, depending upon the institution's or client's needs. After an assessment of the client's strengths and needs, art therapy may be offered in either an individual or group format, according to which

6615-452: The BRIT School , Heap signed to independent record label Almo Sounds at the age of 18 and later began working with experimental pop band Acacia . She released her debut album, an alternative rock record, I Megaphone , in 1998. In early 2002, Heap and English record producer Guy Sigsworth formed the electronic duo Frou Frou and released their only album to date, Details (2002). Her second studio album, Speak for Yourself ,

6750-458: 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 , the soundtrack of which won a Grammy award. In a 2005 interview, Heap said of Frou Frou, "[It] was really like

6885-562: The Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play . Heap co-wrote and produced the Taylor Swift song " Clean ", which appeared as the closer to Swift's fifth studio album 1989 and led to her being part of the production team that won Album of the Year at the 58th Grammy Awards . She returned to produce the re-recording of the song for 1989 (Taylor's Version) , released in 2023. Heap

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7020-722: The Plagues of Egypt in Margate . The songs were compiled in the 2006 album Plague Songs . 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

7155-880: The UK Albums Chart , at number 21 on the Billboard 200 , and at number one on Billboard ' s Dance/Electronic Albums chart. Its deluxe boxset was nominated for the AIM Independent Music Award for Special Catalogue Release of the Year and for the Grammy Award for Best Boxed or Special Limited Edition Package in 2015. In October 2015, Heap released the single "Tiny Human" using her blockchain-based platform Mycelia. Sales of "Tiny Human" via Ethereum smart contracts as of October 2017 were £30,000. After being contacted by movement director Steven Hoggett , Heap reworked and composed music from her catalogue to be used as

7290-474: The alternative rock record I Megaphone , on 16 June 1998 through Almo, with "Getting Scared" as its lead single. The record was made with several producers, including English musician Dave Stewart and Sigsworth, and received some critical praise but was a commercial failure, as Almo did little to promote the album. Soon after Heap released the record, Almo Sounds was acquired by Universal , forcing its artists to either move to other labels or be released. Heap

7425-434: The barbershop quartet-style harmony (i.e. ii – V – I) and blues scale -influenced harmony. There was a lessening of the influence of traditional views of the circle of fifths between the mid-1950s and the late 1970s, including less predominance for the dominant function . In October 2023, Billboard compiled a list of "the 500 best pop songs". In doing so, they noted the difficulty of defining "pop songs": One of

7560-609: The season three finale of The O.C. , which premiered in May 2006. In August 2006, Heap performed a set at the V Festival , where it was announced that " Headlock " was to be the third single lifted from the album and released on 16 October 2006 in the UK. Heap wrote and performed the song "Glittering Cloud", which was based on the plague of locusts , as part of an event called the Margate Exodus sponsored by Artangel in November 2006, where ten artists each performed one song based on one of

7695-639: The season two finale of the Fox television series The O.C. on the same day as its release. It peaked in the top-40 of the Billboard Digital Songs chart, eventually receiving a gold certification from the RIAA and going on to be sampled in the song " Whatcha Say " by American singer Jason Derulo , which topped the Billboard Hot 100 . Heap released the album on her own label, Megaphonic Records. The album

7830-674: The American Art Therapy Association documenting its use as early as 1945. As with other sources of trauma, combat veterans may benefit from art therapy to access memories and to engage with treatment. A 2016 randomized control trial found that art therapy in conjunction with cognitive processing therapy (CPT) was more beneficial than CPT alone. Walter Reed Army Medical Center, the National Intrepid Center of Excellence and other Veteran Association institutions use art therapy to help veterans with PTSD. According to

7965-422: The American Art Therapy Association, art therapy is "particularly effective during times of crisis, changes in circumstance, trauma, and grief." Bereavement is one challenging time where clients find it difficult to verbalize their feelings of loss and shock, and so may use creative means to express their feelings. For example, it has been used to enable children to express their feelings of loss where they may lack

8100-435: The American and (from the mid-1960s) British music industries , whose influence has made pop music something of an international monoculture, but most regions and countries have their own form of pop music, sometimes producing local versions of wider trends, and lending them local characteristics. Some of these trends (for example Europop ) have had a significant impact on the development of the genre. The story of pop music

8235-916: 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 performed in the Film and Music Arena at Latitude Festival in 2011. In 2014, filmmaker Christopher Ian Smith made Cumulus , an experimental documentary exploring key elements of Heap's background, personality and music practice. Crafted entirely out of social media content and data created by Heap and her fans, Cumulus explores Imogen's digital footprint and identity as well as her relationship with fans. The film

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8370-522: The Cursed Child . Over the course of her career, she has received two Grammy Awards , one Ivor Novello Award , and one Drama Desk Award . In July 2019, Heap was awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music . Imogen Jennifer Jane Heap was born on 9 December 1977 in Havering , Greater London. Her name was inspired by that of British composer Imogen Holst , as her mother wanted Heap to become

8505-825: The Mycelia World Tour with him to promote the release of Mycelia's Creative Passport program. In March 2018, she was awarded the Inspiration Award at the 2018 Music Producers Guild Awards . On 18 September 2018, Heap released The Music of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child in Four Contemporary Suites , a condensed soundtrack album of the play. An interview with her appeared in the Alex Winter -directed documentary Trust Machine: The Story of Blockchain in November 2018. The Mycelia World Tour began in Europe in 2018, while

8640-732: The Netherlands, Romania, South Korea, Sweden, and Egypt. International networking contributes to the establishment of standards for education and practice. Diverse perspectives exist on history of art therapy, which complement those that focus on the institutionalization of art therapy as a profession in Britain and the United States. There are various definitions of the term art therapy . The British Association of Art Therapists defines art therapy as: "a form of psychotherapy that uses art media as its primary mode of expression and communication." They also add that "clients who are referred to an art therapist need not have previous experience in art,

8775-503: The North American leg began in April 2019, marking her first North American tour in nine years and her first tour as part of Frou Frou since 2003. That same month, she and Sigsworth released "Guitar Song (Live)", their first Frou Frou song in 15 years, through We Are Hear . She gave a lecture at Boston Calling Music Festival in May 2019. In June 2019, she announced that she planned to release an album consisting of collaborations in 2020,

8910-433: 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. Moving to Essex , Heap hired Justine Pearsall to document the creation of the album. The film documents the creation of the album and the renovation of Heap's childhood home, including turning her old playroom into her new home studio. Everything In-Between: The Story of Ellipse

9045-400: The United States on 25 August 2009. Heap received two nominations for the 49th Annual Grammy Awards , where she won the Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical for her engineering work on Ellipse , making her the first female artist to win the award. In March 2011, Heap began working on her then-unnamed fourth studio album and revealed that she would be writing and releasing

9180-459: The United States, Canada and Mexico. The album was released in November 2005 and débuted at number 144 in the Billboard Top 200 album chart. In concert, Heap performed solo, controlling the sound through her laptop, as well as singing and playing the piano and array mbira . Also that month, Heap appeared on the soundtrack for the 2005 romantic comedy film Just Like Heaven , performing a cover of

9315-476: 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". In October 2008, Heap gave a musical performance in the anti- human trafficking documentary and rockumentary film Call + Response , directed by Justin Dillon. She

9450-415: The art therapist is not primarily concerned with making an aesthetic or diagnostic assessment of the client's image." The American Art Therapy Association defines art therapy as: "an integrative mental health and human services profession that enriches the lives of individuals, families, and communities through active art-making, creative process, applied psychological theory, and human experience within

9585-870: The art. When given five individual sessions of art therapy once per week, art therapy was shown to be useful for personal empowerment by helping the cancer patients understand their own boundaries in relation to the needs of other people. In turn, those who had art therapy treatment felt more connected to others and found social interaction more enjoyable than individuals who did not receive art therapy treatment. Furthermore, art therapy improved motivation levels, ability to discuss emotional and physical health, general well-being, and increased quality of life in cancer patients. Art therapy has been observed to have positive effects on patients with dementia, with tentative evidence supports benefits with respect to quality of life. Although art therapy helps with behavioral issues, it does not appear to reverse degenerating mental faculties. It

9720-811: The body, and provide a nonthreatening method of acting out impulses. Individuals with eating disorders tend to rely heavily on defense mechanisms to feel a sense of control; it is important that clients feel a sense of authority over their art products through freedom of expression and controllable art materials. Healthy individuals without mental or physical illnesses are also treated with art therapy; these patients often have ongoing challenges such as high-intensity jobs, financial constraints, and other non-traumatic personal issues. Findings revealed that art therapy reduces levels of stress and burnout related to patients' professions. Art therapists choose materials and interventions appropriate to their clients' needs and design sessions to achieve therapeutic goals. They may use

9855-420: The brain involved in language processing and visuo-spatial perception, two cognitive functions which decline significantly in dementia patients. Art therapy is increasingly recognized to help address challenges of people with autism. Art therapy may address core symptoms of autism spectrum disorders by promoting sensory regulation, supporting psychomotor development, and facilitating communication. Art therapy

9990-432: The color of their choice. The artist is then asked to explain if there were any meanings, experiences, or related information related to the mandala they drew. This test is based on the beliefs of Joan Kellogg, who sees a correlation between the images, pattern and shapes in the mandalas that people draw and the personalities of the artists. Modeled after Goodenough's Draw-A-Man Test, childhood psychologist John Buck created

10125-552: The concept film Love The Earth , for which fans were invited to submit video footage highlighting all the qualities of nature to be selected and edited into a film. This performance was broadcast live worldwide. In March, for the Birds Eye View Film Festival at the Southbank Centre, Heap, in collaboration with Andrew Skeet , composed an a cappella choral score for the first-ever surrealist film The Seashell and

10260-425: The creative process to help their clients increase insight, cope with stress, work through traumatic experiences, increase cognitive, memory and neurosensory abilities, improve interpersonal relationships and achieve greater self-fulfillment. Activities an art therapist chooses to do with clients depend on a variety of factors such as their mental state or age. Art therapists may draw upon images from resources such as

10395-770: The decade, it was common for pop producers, songwriters, and engineers to freely experiment with musical form, orchestration , unnatural reverb , and other sound effects. Some of the best known examples are Phil Spector 's Wall of Sound and Joe Meek 's use of homemade electronic sound effects for acts like the Tornados . At the same time, pop music on radio and in both American and British film moved away from refined Tin Pan Alley to more eccentric songwriting and incorporated reverb-drenched electric guitar, symphonic strings, and horns played by groups of properly arranged and rehearsed studio musicians. A 2019 study held by New York University in which 643 participants had to rank how familiar

10530-454: The early 1960s, [the term] 'pop music' competed terminologically with beat music [in England], while in the US its coverage overlapped (as it still does) with that of 'rock and roll'". From about 1967, the term "pop music" was increasingly used in opposition to the term rock music, a division that gave generic significance to both terms. While rock aspired to authenticity and an expansion of

10665-559: The early 2010s and later inspiring other highly influential artists including Billie Eilish and Taylor Swift , it gave space to a more sad and moody tone within pop music. Art therapist Art therapy is a distinct discipline that incorporates creative methods of expression through visual art media. Art therapy, as a creative arts therapy profession, originated in the fields of art and psychotherapy and may vary in definition. Art therapy encourages creative expression through painting, drawing, or modelling. It may work by providing

10800-564: The eighth single from the album in March 2013 alongside an animated music video. Her single "Run-Time" was made using a generative music app, which she designed with RjDj and Intel that created custom music for running, and was released in July 2014 with a music video. The title of Sparks , Heap's fourth studio album, was announced in September 2013, and the album was released on 18 August 2014 through Megaphonic Records. It debuted at number 40 on

10935-645: The end credits song for the 2017 Square Enix video game The Quiet Man . She performed "Hide and Seek" at the benefit concert and television special One Love Manchester in Manchester in June 2017. Her performance was praised by critics as "powerful" and "melancholy". The following month, she was featured on the song "We Drift On" by British singer-songwriter Dan Black from his second studio album Do Not Revenge . She announced in November 2017 that she would be reuniting Frou Frou with Guy Sigsworth and would be embarking on

11070-560: The fantasy film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , which was released one month later. 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. Heap recorded an a cappella cover of the Leonard Cohen song " Hallelujah " for

11205-678: The fields of art therapy and outsider art has been widely debated . The term art brut was first coined by French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe "art created outside the boundaries of official culture". Dubuffet used the term art brut to focus on artistic practice by insane-asylum patients. The English translation "outsider art" was first used by art critic Roger Cardinal in 1972. Outsider art continues to be associated with mentally ill or developmentally disabled individuals. Both terms have been criticized because of their social and personal impact on both patients and artists. Art therapy professionals have been accused of not putting enough emphasis on

11340-428: The former more accurately describes all music that is targeted for mass appeal (compare art music ) and includes many disparate styles. Although much of the music that appears on record charts is considered to be pop music, the genre is distinguished from chart music . David Hatch and Stephen Millward describe pop music as "a body of music which is distinguishable from popular, jazz, and folk music". David Boyle,

11475-578: The genre evolved more influences ranging from classical , folk , rock , country , electronic music , and other popular genres became more prominent. In 2016, a Scientific Reports study that examined over 464,000 recordings of popular music recorded between 1955 and 2010 found that, compared to 1960s pop music, contemporary pop music uses a smaller variety of pitch progressions, greater average volume, less diverse instrumentation and recording techniques, and less timbral variety. Scientific American ' s John Matson reported that this "seems to support

11610-409: The home. By the early 1980s, the promotion of pop music had been greatly affected by the rise of music television channels like MTV , which "favoured those artists such as Michael Jackson and Madonna who had a strong visual appeal". Multi-track recording (from the 1960s) and digital sampling (from the 1980s) have also been used as methods for the creation and elaboration of pop music. During

11745-405: The house-tree-person test in 1946. In the assessment, the client is asked to create a drawing that includes a house, a tree and a person, after which the therapist asks several questions about each. For example, with reference to the house, Buck wrote questions such as, "Is it a happy house?" and "What is the house made of?" Regarding the tree, questions include, "About how old is that tree?" and "Is

11880-411: The ideas that are transferred between both of them through art. Another way that art therapy is utilized is art psychotherapy. This approach focuses more on the psychotherapists and their analyses of their clients' artwork verbally. The last way art therapy is looked at is through the lens of art as therapy. Some art therapists practicing art as therapy believe that analyzing the client's artwork verbally

12015-529: The importance of the creative process, psychological defenses, and artistic quality, writing that "sublimation is attained when forms are created that successfully contain ... anger, anxiety, or pain." Other early proponents of art therapy in the United States include Elinor Ulman, Robert "Bob" Ault , and Judith Rubin . The American Art Therapy Association was founded in 1969. National professional associations of art therapy exist in many countries, including Brazil, Canada, Finland, Lebanon, Israel, Japan,

12150-613: The late 18th century. Art therapy as a profession began in the mid-20th century, arising independently in English-speaking and European countries. Art had been used at the time for various reasons: communication, inducing creativity in children, and in religious contexts. The early art therapists who published accounts of their work acknowledged the influence of aesthetics, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, rehabilitation, early childhood education, and art education, to varying degrees, on their practices. The British artist Adrian Hill coined

12285-414: The late 1970s and would not reemerge until the rise of Internet stars. Indie pop , which developed in the late 1970s, marked another departure from the glamour of contemporary pop music, with guitar bands formed on the then-novel premise that one could record and release their own music without having to procure a record contract from a major label. The 1980s are commonly remembered for an increase in

12420-401: The late 20th century that became global superstars include Whitney Houston , Michael Jackson , Madonna , George Michael , and Prince . At the beginning of the 2000s, the trends that dominated during the late 1990s still continued, but the music industry started to change as people began to download music from the internet. People were able to discover genres and artists that were outside of

12555-486: The lead single of which would be one of three versions of "The Quiet". She also performed on NPR 's Tiny Desk Concerts series that same month. She hosted the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards Premiere Ceremony in January 2020. In April 2020, she appeared as a main artist on the commercial re-release of the 2009 song " I'm God " by Italian-American record producer Clams Casino , which samples Heap's song "Just for Now", and released

12690-501: The main purpose of pop music is to create revenue. It is not a medium of free articulation of the people. Instead, pop music seeks to supply the nature of personal desire and achieve the instant empathy with cliche personalities, stereotypes, and melodrama that appeals to listeners. It is mostly about how much revenue pop music makes for record companies. Music scholar Timothy Warner said pop music typically has an emphasis on recording, production, and technology, rather than live performance;

12825-508: The mainstream and propel them to fame, but at the same time smaller artists had a harder time making a living because their music was being pirated. Popular artists were Avril Lavigne , Justin Timberlake , NSYNC , Christina Aguilera , Destiny's Child , and Britney Spears . Pop music often came from many different genres, with each genre in turn influencing the next one, blurring the lines between them and making them less distinct. This change

12960-448: The manner in which pop has been disseminated", which helped to move pop music to "a record/radio/film star system". Another technological change was the widespread availability of television in the 1950s with televised performances, which meant that "pop stars had to have a visual presence". In the 1960s, the introduction of inexpensive, portable transistor radios meant that teenagers in the developed world could listen to music outside of

13095-530: The maturity to verbalize their bereavement. Art therapy may help people with anorexia with associated depression and weight management. Traumatic or negative childhood experiences can result in unintentionally harmful coping mechanisms, such as eating disorders . Art therapy may provide an outlet for exploring these experiences and emotions . Art therapy may be beneficial for clients with eating disorders because clients can create visual representations with art material of progress made, represent alterations to

13230-403: The mid-1960s, pop music made repeated forays into new sounds, styles, and techniques that inspired public discourse among its listeners. The word "progressive" was frequently used, and it was thought that every song and single was to be a "progression" from the last. Music critic Simon Reynolds writes that beginning with 1967, a divide would exist between "progressive" pop and "mass/chart" pop,

13365-753: The music in Harry Potter and the Cursed Child , the eighth instalment of the Harry Potter series in the form of a West End play that opened in the summer of 2016. For her work on the play, she received several award nominations, including for the Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album , the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Music and the Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding New Score (Broadway or Off-Broadway), and won

13500-407: 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

13635-472: The patient. This includes dovetailing with physicians, judges, family members, and sometimes even community members that might be important in the caretaking of the individual." Art therapists and other professionals use art-based assessments to evaluate emotional, cognitive, and developmental conditions. The first drawing assessment for psychological purposes was created in 1906 by German psychiatrist Fritz Mohr. In 1926, researcher Florence Goodenough created

13770-802: The pop music styles that developed alongside other music styles is Latin pop , which rose in popularity in the US during the 1950s with early rock and roll success Ritchie Valens . Later, Los Lobos and Chicano rock gained in popularity during the 1970s and 1980s, and musician Selena saw large-scale popularity in the 1980s and 1990s, along with crossover appeal with fans of Tejano musicians Lydia Mendoza and Little Joe . With later Hispanic and Latino Americans seeing success within pop music charts, 1990s pop successes stayed popular in both their original genres and in broader pop music. Latin pop hit singles, such as " Macarena " by Los del Río and " Despacito " by Luis Fonsi , have seen record-breaking success on worldwide pop music charts. Notable pop artists of

13905-400: The popular anecdotal observation that pop music of yore was "better", or at least more varied, than today's top-40 stuff". However, he also noted that the study may not have been entirely representative of pop in each generation. In the 1960s, the majority of mainstream pop music fell in two categories: guitar, drum and bass groups or singers backed by a traditional orchestra. Since early in

14040-448: The possibilities of popular music, pop was more commercial, ephemeral, and accessible. According to British musicologist Simon Frith , pop music is produced "as a matter of enterprise not art", and is "designed to appeal to everyone" but "doesn't come from any particular place or mark off any particular taste". Frith adds that it is "not driven by any significant ambition except profit and commercial reward [...] and, in musical terms, it

14175-503: The reasons pop can be hard to summarize is because there’s no real sonic or musical definition to it. There are common elements to a lot of the biggest pop songs, but at the end of the day, "pop" means "popular" first and foremost, and just about any song that becomes popular enough...can be considered a pop song. In the 1940s, improved microphone design allowed a more intimate singing style and, ten or twenty years later, inexpensive and more durable 45 rpm records for singles "revolutionized

14310-578: The single "Phase and Flow" as part of a collaboration with IBM . The following month, she performed during Royal Albert Hall 's Royal Albert Home virtual concert series. Heap gave a livestreamed closing performance for the Virtual Design Festival held by Dezeen in July 2020. During the COVID-19 pandemic , she launched a self-titled app for fans to view unreleased material and demos and participate in listening parties with her through Discord for

14445-412: The song " Spooky " by American band Classics IV . Heap announced, upon 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 . In November 2005, Heap wrote and recorded the song "Can't Take It In" for the soundtrack of

14580-603: The song "I'm a Lonely Little Petunia (In an Onion Patch)" for the seventh episode of the fourth season of the HBO drama series Six Feet Under , which premiered in August 2004. Her rendition later appeared as the album closer for the 2005 soundtrack album Six Feet Under, Vol. 2: Everything Ends . 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

14715-631: The stress of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy treatment. In a study involving women facing cancer-related difficulties such as fear, pain, and altered social relationships, it was found that: Engaging in different types of visual art (textiles, card making, collage, pottery, watercolor, acrylics) helped these women in 4 major ways. First, it helped them focus on positive life experiences, relieving their ongoing preoccupation with cancer. Second, it enhanced their self-worth and identity by providing them with opportunities to demonstrate continuity, challenge, and achievement. Third, it enabled them to maintain

14850-420: The symptoms of depression. Children who have experienced trauma may benefit from group art therapy. The group format is effective in helping survivors develop relationships with others who have experienced similar situations. Group art therapy may also be beneficial in helping children with trauma regain trust and social self-esteem. Art therapy has an established history of being used to treat veterans, with

14985-511: The term art therapy in 1942. Hill, recovering from tuberculosis in a sanatorium, discovered the therapeutic benefits of drawing and painting while convalescing. He wrote that the value of art therapy lay in "completely engrossing the mind (as well as the fingers)…releasing the creative energy of the frequently inhibited patient", which enabled the patient to "build up a strong defence against his misfortunes". He suggested artistic work to his fellow patients. That began his art therapy work, which

15120-573: The term "pop music" "originated in Britain in the mid-1950s as a description for rock and roll and the new youth music styles that it influenced". The Oxford Dictionary of Music states that while pop's "earlier meaning meant concerts appealing to a wide audience [...] since the late 1950s, however, pop has had the special meaning of non-classical mus[ic], usually in the form of songs, performed by such artists as The Beatles , The Rolling Stones , ABBA , etc." Grove Music Online also states that "[...] in

15255-409: The term "pop music" may be used to describe a distinct genre, designed to appeal to all, often characterized as "instant singles-based music aimed at teenagers" in contrast to rock music as "album-based music for adults". Pop music continuously evolves along with the term's definition. According to music writer Bill Lamb, popular music is defined as "the music since industrialization in the 1800s that

15390-509: The top five of the Billboard 200 chart and received mostly positive reviews. This was followed by her fourth studio album, Sparks (2014). In 2017, she reunited with Sigsworth as part of Frou Frou. Heap developed the Mi.Mu Gloves, a line of musical gloves, as well as a blockchain-based music-sharing program, Mycelia. She also composed the music for the West End and Broadway play Harry Potter and

15525-512: The tree alive?" Concerning the person, questions include, "Is that person happy?" and "How does that person feel?" The house–tree–person test is a projective personality test , a type of exam in which the test taker responds to or provides ambiguous, abstract, or unstructured stimuli (often in the form of pictures or drawings). It is designed to measure aspects of a person's personality through interpretation of drawings and responses to questions, self-perceptions and attitudes. The relation between

15660-623: The use of digital recording , associated with the usage of synthesizers , with synth-pop music and other electronic genres featuring non-traditional instruments increasing in popularity. By 2014, pop music worldwide had been permeated by electronic dance music . In 2018, researchers at the University of California, Irvine , concluded that pop music has become 'sadder' since the 1980s. The elements of happiness and brightness have eventually been replaced with electronic beats making pop music more 'sad yet danceable'. Pop music has been dominated by

15795-413: The use of art therapy in cancer patients by investigating the symptoms of emotional, social, physical, and spiritual concerns of cancer patients. They found that art therapy can improve the process of psychological readjustment to the change, loss, and uncertainty associated with surviving cancer. It was suggested that art therapy can provide a sense of " meaning-making " through the physical act of creating

15930-1210: The use of haptic art materials to express one's emotions, cognitions, and perceptions in a group setting lowered depressing themes and may improve self-esteem , enforce creativity, and facilitate the integrative therapeutic process for people with schizophrenia. Art therapy may alleviate trauma-induced emotions , such as shame and anger. It is also likely to increase trauma survivors' sense of empowerment and control by encouraging children to make choices in their artwork. Art therapy in addition to psychotherapy offered more reduction in trauma symptoms than just psychotherapy alone. Art therapy may be an effective way to access and process traumatic memories that were encoded visually in clients. Through art therapy, individuals may be able to make more sense of their traumatic experiences and form accurate trauma narratives. Gradual exposure to these narratives may reduce trauma-induced symptoms, such as flashbacks and nightmares . Repetition of directives reduces anxiety, and visually creating narratives helps clients build coping skills and balanced nervous system responses. This has been proven effective only in long-term art therapy interventions. "Depression

16065-465: The validity of therapists making interpretative assumptions. Below are some examples of popular art therapy assessments: In this assessment, a person is asked to select a card from a deck with different mandalas , a repetitive symbol originating in Buddhism , and then must choose a color from a set of colored cards. The person is then asked to draw the mandala from the card they choose with an oil pastel of

16200-597: 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 written. A week later, Sigsworth called Heap again, and together they wrote and recorded the future single "Breathe In". On 4 June 2002, they released Details , their first and only album to date. The album spawned the singles "Breathe In", "It's Good to Be in Love" and "Must Be Dreaming". The song "Let Go"

16335-523: Was Heap's first charting single, reaching number 56 on the UK Singles Chart . The song would later appear in a 2005 sex tape of Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst . Heap appeared as a featured vocalist on two songs—"Dirty Mind" and "Rollin' and Tumblin'"—on the 2001 album You Had It Coming by English guitarist Jeff Beck . Heap had kept in contact with Guy Sigsworth (who had co-written and produced "Getting Scared" from I Megaphone ), and this led to

16470-468: Was also featured on two songs on Jeff Beck's live album Live at Ronnie Scott's and appeared in the accompanying DVD in April 2009. 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 2009 and in

16605-487: Was documented in 1945 in his book, Art Versus Illness . The artist Edward Adamson , demobilized after World War II , joined Adrian Hill to extend Hill's work to the British long stay mental hospitals. Adamson studied connections between one's artistic expression and their release of emotions. One way in which Adamson practiced Art Therapy was through the depiction of patients' emotions in the art they created. In order to gain

16740-591: Was done to show the effectiveness of art therapy by using both a controlled and experimental group on nine individuals with autism. One of the researchers, Koo, stated, "The positive changes were notable in the participants' cognitive, social, and motor skills". A 2005 systematic review of art therapy as supplemental treatment for schizophrenia found unclear effects. Group art therapy has been shown to improve some symptoms of schizophrenia. While studies concluded that art therapy did not improve Clinical Global Impression or Global Assessment of Functioning, they showed that

16875-453: Was epitomized in Spears' highly influential 2007 album Blackout , which under the influence of producer Danja , mixed the sounds of EDM , avant-funk , R&B , dance music , and hip hop . By 2010, pop music impacted by dance music came to be dominant on the charts. Instead of radio setting the trends, it was now the club. At the beginning of the 2010s, Will.i.am stated, "The new bubble

17010-444: 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". Throughout the creation of her album Ellipse , Heap posted vlogs or VBlogs as she called them, on YouTube . She used these to comment on

17145-417: Was featured on the soundtrack for the 2004 film Garden State . In late 2003, after an extensive promotional tour of the UK, Europe and the US, the duo was 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

17280-402: Was founded in 1964. U.S. art therapy pioneers Margaret Naumburg and Edith Kramer began practicing at around the same time as Hill. Naumburg, an educator, asserted that "art therapy is psychoanalytically oriented" and that free art expression "becomes a form of symbolic speech which ... leads to an increase in verbalization in the course of therapy." Edith Kramer, an artist, pointed out

17415-521: Was one of the artists featured in an episode of the 2016 PBS docuseries Soundbreaking and she narrated and composed music for the 2016 documentary Crossing Bhutan , which premiered at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival . Also in 2016, she was commissioned by French advertising agency BETC and British company Cow & Gate , in collaboration with researchers from Goldsmiths, University of London , to help write

17550-435: Was one of the artists who was dropped from the label, leaving her without a record contract. During her time as an unsigned artist, Heap appeared on two 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 1998 collaboration with British hip hop band Urban Species . "Blanket"

17685-552: Was released in 2005 on her own label, Megaphonic Records, and was certified gold in the United States and Canada . The album spawned three singles: " Headlock ", " Goodnight and Go ", which became her highest-charting single as a lead artist on the UK Singles Chart , and " Hide and Seek ", which was certified gold in the United States and gained popularity after being used in the Fox teen drama television series The O.C. . Heap's third studio album, Ellipse (2009), peaked in

17820-459: Was released in November 2010. On 5 November 2010 at the Royal Albert Hall , Heap conducted an orchestra including her friends and family as they performed an original piece composed by Heap and 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

17955-418: Was released on 8 April. As part of a new project called The Living Song, Heap released the first part as a single named "What Have You Done To Me?" on 1 November 2024 After touring for nearly two years straight for her album Speak for Yourself , Heap 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

18090-664: Was there that she recorded her first song to feature her vocals, "Missing You", which was released on the BRIT School's Class of 1994 album and earned her attention from manager Mickey Modern after he saw her performance at a talent showcase. After being introduced to Nik Kershaw by Modern, Heap recorded demos which were taken to Rondor Music . A few months later, Heap signed her first record contract, aged 18, with independent record label Almo Sounds . In 1996, Heap began working with British experimental pop band Acacia , which featured her future collaborator Guy Sigsworth . While never

18225-405: 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 RCA Records for the album's release in

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