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Touch the Sound (soundtrack)

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Released
  
2004 (2004)

Label
  
Normal (Germany)

Release date
  
2004

Length
  
60:06

Artist
  
Evelyn Glennie

Movie
  
Touch the Sound

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Producer
  
Filmquadrat (Munich), Skyline (Edinburgh)

Genres
  
Experimental music, Free improvisation

Similar
  
Perpetual Motion, Altamira, The Sugar Factory, Shadow Behind the Iron Sun, Street Songs

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Touch the Sound is a soundtrack by Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie of the 2004 documentary film Touch the Sound by German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer about Glennie, who is profoundly deaf. It was released on CD in 2004 by German record label, Normal.

Contents

The soundtrack consists of musical improvisations by Glennie, solo and with other musicians, including English experimental musician Fred Frith. Glennie and Frith were filmed improvising in an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany, and six of the tracks on the soundtrack were recorded in the factory. In 2007 Frith and Glennie released an album, The Sugar Factory which used material from those sessions.

Reception

In a review at AllMusic, Stephen Eddins gave the soundtrack four stars out of five, and said that "This is not a recording in which Glennie's virtuosity is on display, but one that showcases her sensitivity to the world around her, and that's a wonderful thing to hear."

Track listing

Source: Soundtrack liner notes.

Personnel

  • Fred Frith – bass guitar, guitar, percussion, vocals
  • Evelyn Glennie – drums, snare drum, marimba, percussion, sheet metal, tom-tom, waterphone, wind whistle
  • Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez – drums
  • Ondekoza – drums, taiko
  • Misa This – piano
  • Saikou This – violin
  • Jason "The Fogmaster" – foghorns
  • Roxane Butterfly – tap dancing
  • Source: AllMusic, Discogs

    Production

  • Location sound engineering by Gregor Kuschel and Marc von Stuerler
  • Sugar factory recording (tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 14, 19) by Jörg T. Schnabel and Patrik Höderrath
  • Sound Editing by Christoph von Schoenburg
  • Mixing by Hubertus Rath
  • Produced by Filmquadrat Munich and Skyline Edinburgh
  • Liner notes by Thomas Riedelsheimer
  • Source: AllMusic, Discogs

    Songs

    1Warm UpFred Frith3:34
    2Tam Tam WaveFred Frith3:06
    3New York Sounds–recorded sounds–2:08

    References

    Touch the Sound (soundtrack) Wikipedia