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Touch the Sound - a Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie

Award-winning director and cinematographer, Thomas Riedelsheimer, (Rivers and Tides, Andy Goldsworthy working with Time)  takes us on an  journey  through a universe of sound with percussionist Evelyn Glennie.  They map a world of the senses – images and sounds.  Hearing images, seeing sound. With Evelyn, we experience sound as palpable and  rhythm as the basis of everything that is. Rhythm is movement, flow, change, renewal - and repetition. Everything oscillates and vibrates - from the bridge of steel and concrete to the energy shells around an atom. We recognise and experience our world through oscillations, through rhythms - even colours oscillate at different frequencies. Everything vibrates, everything "speaks" - a universe of sound. Renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie, who lost her hearing aged eight years old, lives in this universe in a way that almost no-one else does. Together with her, this film  dives into the world of sound and rhythms - into the world of our origins.

At the top of her profession with many works written especially for her, Evelyn now improvises for this film with Fred Frith, master of the avant garde. The result of their collaboration forms the backbone of the film as Evelyn travels the world, playing with diverse musicians and sending back postcards from her world of sound
TOUCH THE SOUND – A SOUND JOURNEY WITH EVELYN GLENNIE

CREDITS
Filmquadrat and Skyline
present
Touch the Sound
A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie
featuring
Fred Frith
a film by
Thomas Riedelsheimer
producers
Stefan Tolz
Leslie Hills
Trevor Davies
also featuring
This
Za Ondekoza
Roxanne Butterfly
Jason `The Fogmaster`
Horazio `El Negro` Hernandez
and others
location sound
Marc von Stuerler
Gregor Kuschel
photography
Thomas Riedelsheimer
music
Evelyn Glennie
music improvised and performed by
Evelyn Glennie 
and                        
Fred Frith
Roxanne Butterfly, USA
Horazio ‘El Negro‘ Hernandez, USA
Za Ondekoza, Japan
This  Misa & Saikou, Japan                                               
Jason ‘The Fogmaster‘, USA
sound designers
Marc von Stuerler (location sound)
Gregor Kuschel (location sound)
Christoph von Schoenburg (sound edit)
Hubertus Rath (re-recording mix)
camera assistants
Dieter Stuermer
Oliver Sachs
Shinji Heboki
Isabel Alvarez
electricians
Therese Andersson
Louis Fried
still photographers
Oliver Sachs
Sibylle Anneck
Andrés Jauernick
location managers
Michele Owen, USA
Tom Hayes, USA
Dan Johnson, USA
Marie Miyayama, Japan
Malte Jaspersen, Japan
Noel Rea, UK
2nd unit camera
Dieter Stuermer
percussion technicians
James Wilson
Danny Caye
Teppei Yamamoto
Haruka Shinohara
audio CD recording engineers
Jörg T. Schnabel
Patrik Hoederrath
Sound studios
Whitehouse Studio, Cologne
Bavaria Studio, Munich
negative cutter
Ilona Demuth
colourist
Kerstin Keller
line producers
Andrés Jauernick
Heinz Hausner
Dave Tarvit
production manager
Markus Breimaier
production assistants
Katrin Jaeger
Claudia Seifert
Stephanie Hills
Accountants
Claudia Haertter
Judith Anderson
commissioning editors
Walter Greifenstein, BR Germany
Jochen Kölsch, arte
Erkki Astala and  Eila Werning, YLE Finland
producers
Stefan Tolz
Leslie Hills
Trevor Davies

director, photography, editor
Thomas Riedelsheimer
Grateful thanks for their help and support to
James Wilson • Vicky Corley-Smith • Carla Gawthorpe • Chris Madden • Roger Glennie • Isobel Glennie • Rebecca Louise James • Maria Pallante • Dror Sinai • Father Edward Fitz-Henry • Annedore v. Donop • Margret Sterleicci • Ron Samuels from Marimba One • Steve Hackett • Ellen Primack • Dr.Koch, Sodafabrik Duisburg • Gerhard Raspé • Hajo Schuderer • Karl Broich Catering • Uwe Walter • Ichitaro Nakanoshima  • Ikuya Kitahara • Mayao Umesao • Kanjuro Shibata • Yurie Hagi • Masayoshi Okubo • Daisuke Yamada • Mimi Inoue • Musashi • Emiko Oiwa  • Sound Factory Pro • Haru Shohara • Takashi Kawanami • Sony Entertainment Robot Company • Masayo Oda und Kai • Ross Graham of Rhythm in the City, Belfast • Different Drums of Ireland • Staff and pupils of Ellon Academy and
Cairnnorrie Primary School • The Prince of Wales Bar, Aberdeen  • Paul Budden and British Kendo Assoc. • Peter Benz • Verena Reindl • Sam Ash Music • Bob Ayers Percussion • Carroll Musical Instrument Rentals • Sunphonix instruments • Steve McIntyre • Dr. Klaus Schaefer •Claudia Riedelsheimer
and for locations to
Grand Central Station, New York
Cologne Airport
Pfeifer & Langen, the Factory, Dormagen
Ellon Academy, Scotland
Communitek Video, rooftop, New York
Rose Theater, Fuji
Ryoanji temple, Kyoto
Shisendo temple, Kyoto
Takashimaya Department Store, Kyoto
Daimaru Department Store, Kyoto
Cafe Independence, Kyoto
Roger Glennie, Hillhead of Ardo Farm, Scotland
Cabrillo Music Festival, Santa Cruz
Rhythm Fusion, Santa Cruz
The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Mission San Juan Bautista, Santa Cruz
Title song Battlecry‚ Courtesy of BMG UK & Ireland Ltd.‚
camera equipment
Licht und Ton, Munich
sound equipment
Christian Wegner, Berlin
Team 72, Munich
Whitehouse Studio, Cologne
laboratories
Monaco Filmlabs, San Francisco
Du Mont, New York
Bavaria, Munich
postproduction
Bavaria, Munich
shot with ARRI cameras on KODAK negative

produced in association with
Scottish Screen National Lottery Fund,
FilmFernsehFonds Bayern
FFA Filmfoerderanstalt
BKM, Filmfoerdung des Bundes
NRW Filmstiftung
NRW Filmbuero
and in co-production with
BR, Bayerisches Fernsehen, Germany
YLE TV1 Co-productions, Finland
produced by
Filmquadrat, Munich
in co-production with
Skyline, Edinburgh
www.touch-the-sound.com
Dolby Digital
in selected cinemas
© 2004
 

 

 

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