Summary
[EVELYN GLENNIE] is the subject of Thomas Riedelsheimer's film Touch the Sound, which is less a documentary comprising important dates and the explication of techniques than it is an invitation to reconsider what constitutes sound and what it truly means to hear. Riedelsheimer never shows Glennie in her "professional" life, performing concerts both as a solo act and with renowned orchestras (this film will never tell you she's won a Grammy). Instead he joins her ongoing journeys in sound discovery.
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Touch the Sound; Hearing Is Feeling
FOR EVELYN GLENNIE, a professional percussionist, hearing is a form of touch, something the body feels as a physical presence, and not merely as...
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