Touch The Sound (2004)
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Reviews Counted: 50
Fresh: 44 | Rotten: 6
Not only does this documentary introduce viewers to Glennie, it gives them a taste of how she perceives the world.
Average Rating: 7.4/10
Critic Reviews: 20
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 2
Not only does this documentary introduce viewers to Glennie, it gives them a taste of how she perceives the world.
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Evelyn Glennie is one of the world's most celebrated percussionists, and has produced acclaimed work in the classical, pop, and avant-garde fields. Glennie's collaborators include Icelandic avant-pop darling Björk, bluegrass-turned-jazz virtuoso Béla Fleck, the traditional Japanese ensemble Kodo, and pianist Murray Perahia. What makes Glennie's accomplishments all the more remarkable is the fact she is "profoundly deaf" -- a neurological disorder that surfaced in her childhood robbed her of most
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[A] fascinating portrait.
Top CriticA coy yet worthy profile of celebrated Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie.
Touch the Sound is remarkable not only because of Glennie's story -- a clinically deaf Grammy-winning musician who has played with the world's great orchestras -- but for the way Riedelsheimer uses sound.
The movie makes an interesting addition to what could become Riedelsheimer's evolving and extraordinary gallery of movies that bring the creative process to life.
It will be frustrating if you expect narrative and linear development. But if you take it on as a new point of view, valuable even if you don't completely comprehend it yet, Touch the Sound is worth the trip.
Riedelsheimer gives the viewer not only Glennie's music, but her own experience of it.
The director creates a series of stunning visual images to accompany Glennie's music and the sounds of the street, and that, frankly, is the triumph of this film--not Glennie's victory over silence.
Thomas Riedelsheimer's portrait of deaf percussionist Evelyn Glennie is an absolute masterwork, both of filmmaking and of musicianship.
It doesn't help when Glennie tries to elucidate her feelings about nature and music in holistic, broad strokes that border on nonsense.
A documentary that artfully blends sound, image and biography.
Riedelsheimer sees Glennie as an angel of hyperawareness and possessor of special spiritual wisdom.
It's a contemplative piece of work that will leave you questioning the nature of what is audible -- particularly those parts that 'hearing' people tend to tune out or ignore.
Touch the Sound is a completely joyful moviegoing experience and, like the best movies, it takes you to a place you've never been.
You may find your own sense of hearing transformed by this global tour of the senses.
They get some amazing sounds from unusual sources... This film is a visual and auditory experience.
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Foreign Titles
- Touch the Sound - A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (DE)
- Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie (UK)
[font=Century Gothic]Now, here is the twist: Glennie is severely hearing impaired.(She does not use a hearing aid because she can hear her music better through her sense of touch. This might explain why she performs barefoot...) Glennie's hearing impairment adds a whole another dimension to this documentary. Like the people in "Murderball", she takes a disability and turns it back on itself. Also, the movie made me think about how we hear the sounds around us. [/font]
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[font=Century Gothic]Thomas Riedelsheimer uses the same visual style he employed in "Rivers and Tides." There is great photography, especially of New York City.[/font]
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