Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie

Name: Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
Genre: Documentary
Released: September 7, 2005
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 75

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Shadow Distribution | Release Date: September 7, 2005

Summary: Through the rhythms of Evelyn Glennie we touch the sound – we feel the beat of the universe. Thomas Riedelsheimer takes us on an expedition with Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie into the center of the sound world – a journey involving each of our senses. See, Feel, Embrace the sound. Evelyn’s postcards from her journey across the worldThrough the rhythms of Evelyn Glennie we touch the sound – we feel the beat of the universe. Thomas Riedelsheimer takes us on an expedition with Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie into the center of the sound world – a journey involving each of our senses. See, Feel, Embrace the sound. Evelyn’s postcards from her journey across the world feed into the creation of music from the interior of one of the most unique perspectives of sound and image on the planet. (Shadow Distribution)… Expand

Director: Thomas Riedelsheimer

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 99 min

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Kenneth Turan

A potent and imaginative creative biography of virtuoso percussionist Glennie. Read full review

Stephen Holden

This is synergy of a high order. Read full review

Sheri Linden

Touch the Sound is at least as inspiring and in some ways more rewarding, thought-provoking and subtly visceral. Read full review

Roger Ebert

Riedelsheimer, earlier made "Rivers and Tides" (2002), about another artist from Scotland, Andy Goldsworthy, whose art involves materials found in nature...Evelyn Glennie and Andy Goldsworthy have in common a profound sensitivity to their environments. Read full review

Jack Mathews

The result is a feast for the senses. Read full review

Eddie Cockrell

Fans of the Grammy-winning musician will revel in the proximity to their idol, though second pic from talented helmer Thomas Riedelsheimer plays a tad long to those unfamiliar with his, or her, work. Read full review

Joshua Kosman

There is a maddening sense of dislocation through much of the movie -- a feeling that genuinely fascinating questions have been squeezed out by woo-woo philosophizing and material (like Glennie's brief return to the family farm) of only minor import. Read full review

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JamesN.

Nov 11, 2005

Fascinating music--fine photography and editing--an inspiration (especially to anyone with a disability)!!!

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JulioP.

Jan 15, 2006

At three-quarters of the way through the film I felt such an ecstasy as to make any kind of drug-induced euphoria seem trivial. This is the greatest kind of movie -- the kind that speaks to us on every level.

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kathytreece

Oct 10, 2015

I admire the success of Evelyn Glennie, a percussion soloist and how she is able to pull music from everyday events. What an artist! And the scenery in the movie is fabulous.

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KoltonV.

Apr 29, 2008

The movie put me to sleep and were it not for a school project I'd have turned it off in the first 30 minutes. I loved the idea but the director reminded me of a child with ADD uncertain of what he wanted and always demanding it.

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SteveF.

Jan 14, 2006

She's deaf? I've worked w/ hundreds of deaf people, from hard of hearing to deaf as a fence post and - w/o exception - they have all had ''the deaf accent'' to one degree or another. I found it very distracting & a serious strain on her credibility every time She's deaf? I've worked w/ hundreds of deaf people, from hard of hearing to deaf as a fence post and - w/o exception - they have all had ''the deaf accent'' to one degree or another. I found it very distracting & a serious strain on her credibility every time she spoke (which was often & at length) w/o a trace of the deaf accent. If indeed she is ''profoundly deaf'', as so described several times, then her extraordinary, super-human, unparalleled command of every nuance of a language she cannot hear is a far more interesting story than the one told. Given the credibility issues, I found it increasingly difficult to finish watching.… Expand

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beingryanjude

Sep 1, 2014

Never has a documentary brought me so much boredom. Touch the Sound removes inspiration from music and creates absolutely no thought-provoking moments.

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