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Touch the Sound
Thomas Riedelsheimer

Evelyn Glennie

Touch the Sound

Price: € 20.95
Format: DVD movie
Label: Signum Classics
UPC: 0635212000694
Catnr: SIGDVD 006
Release date: 08 May 2009
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Label
Signum Classics
UPC
0635212000694
Catalogue number
SIGDVD 006
Release date
08 May 2009
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"A mystical exploration of the sensory world as experienced by a renowned musician" (San Jose Mercury News), Touch the Sound passionately and delightfully shatters the way we think about sound. Gracefully guided by Grammy Award-winning percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who also happens to be deaf, this groundbreaking film opens the door to a world where sight, sound and touch magically converge to elevate our everyday sensory experiences.
Een ontdekkingsreis door de zintuiglijke wereld van een dove musicus
Touch the Sound, door San Jose Mercury News omschreven als “a mystical exploration of the sensory world as experienced by a renowned musician”, ontneemt luisteraars op hartstochtelijke wijze de manier hoe ze over geluid denken. Deze baanbrekende film, sierlijk geleid door de dove percussionist Evelyn Glennie, opent de deur naar een wereld waarin gezicht, geluid en gevoel op magische wijze samenkomen om de alledaagse zintuiglijke ervaringen van de luisteraar te verheffen.

Glennie wordt op haar reis bijgestaan door Fred Frith, grootmeester van de avant garde muziek, en filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer. De klanken en ritmes uit het alledaagse leven vormen het uitgangspunt van de reis. Vanuit daar wordt de aard van geluid gevormd, en de oorsprong van het geluid naast de manier waarop de wereld ervan afhankelijk is, ontdekt. Net als elke andere reis komt deze niet alleen tot leven door de genomen route, maar ook door de ansichtkaarten die onderweg verzameld worden. Aan het einde blijkt dat de luisteraars niet alleen de wereld rond zijn geweest, maar ook gereisd hebben zoals Glennie dat elke dag doet. Ze voelen de ritmes die de bouwstenen van ons universum zijn. Het wezen van alles. De oorsprong van het leven zelf.

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Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie was born in 1965 near Aberdeen in Scotland. She grew up on her parents's farm, with two brothers. At the age of twelve, she became interested in the snare drum. It was around this same time that her hearing began to deteriorate as the result of a neurological disorder. A few years later, she was eighty percent deaf; however, her Scottish stubbornness would not let her give up. She learned to feel the vibrations of the notes, and to distinguish between them with the help of different areas of sensitivity throughout her body. Evelyn Glennie had one goal - to play classical percussion. Not at the back of the orchestra, but as a solo performer - an independent...
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Evelyn Glennie was born in 1965 near Aberdeen in Scotland. She grew up on her parents's farm, with two brothers. At the age of twelve, she became interested in the snare drum. It was around this same time that her hearing began to deteriorate as the result of a neurological disorder. A few years later, she was eighty percent deaf; however, her Scottish stubbornness would not let her give up. She learned to feel the vibrations of the notes, and to distinguish between them with the help of different areas of sensitivity throughout her body. Evelyn Glennie had one goal - to play classical percussion. Not at the back of the orchestra, but as a solo performer - an independent artist. However, quite apart from the fact that many people believed that both her poor hearing and her small, petite stature would prove an insuperable barrier, there was no established solo percussionist role to serve as a model. Evelyn’s inexhaustible energy swept all objections aside. In 1988 she won a Grammy for her first CD recording, Bartok’s “Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion”, conducted by Sir George Solti. Over the following years she played with all the great orchestras of the world, appeared several times as a solo performer at the renowned BBC Prom concerts and recorded a dozen CDs. She worked with Brazilian samba groups, Japanese kodo drummers, Indonesian gamelan orchestras and with the Icelandic rock singer, Björk. She commissioned contemporary pieces for percussion, thereby constantly expanding her repertoire. Evelyn had achieved the heights at a very young age. Now in her late thirties, she is in a new phase of creativity. She no longer has to prove anything to anybody. She listens now to what is within herself and prefers improvising through good feeling to a perfected technical style. The dimension of the individual beat is as important to her as a complete score. She values the fine shades of sound much more highly. She is an amazing performer with an instinctive understanding of the sensual enjoyment that makes for a good show. On her “Shadows” tour, dry ice drifts across the stage; coloured spotlights bathe the battery of percussion instruments in a mystical light. Evelyn’s concert tours take her to Japan, Europe and, mostly, to the US, where she keeps a second complete set of percussion instruments. In between her tours she hatches new ideas in her sound studio at home, in the countryside north of London. She experiments with unusual instruments and everyday household objects. In this way, she invented the batonka, a sort-of plastic pipe marimba, and the simtak, a customized car exhaust.

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