Description

While exploring the role of deafness in Glennie’s music-making, Touch the Sound challenges our understanding of the senses and celebrates Glennie’s uncanny gifts. Painstaking crafted and wonderfully cinematic, Touch the Sound engages the ears, the eyes and heart to rousing effect. The film was directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer and featuring improviser Fred Frith alongside Evelyn herself, in her most celebrated on-screen appearance.

The original soundtrack is also to available to buy from our shop, here.

Winner of Best Sound from German Film Prize, Critics’ Week Award from the Locarno International Film Festival, the Golden Dove Award from the International Leipzig Festival and Best Documentary from BAFTA Scotland.

Artists

Percussion & Found Objects: Evelyn Glennie
Guitars & Found Objects: Fred Frith
Tapdancer: Roxane Butterfly
Taikos & Drums: Za Ondekoza
Piano: Misa (This)
Violin: Saikou (This)
Foghorns: Jason ‘The Fogmaster’
Drumkit: Horazio ‘El Negro’ Hernandez

Featuring

Signum Vision SIGDVD006

Region

Region 0 (worldwide)