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''Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey with Evelyn Glennie'' is a 2004 German documentary film directed by Thomas Riedelsheimer about profoundly deaf Scottish classical percussionist Evelyn Glennie.〔 In the film Glennie, who won a Grammy Award in 1989,〔 collaborates with English experimental musician Fred Frith and others, and explains how she perceives sound.〔〔 The film appeared at over 20 film festivals across the world,〔 and won several awards, including "Best Documentary" at the 2004 BAFTA Awards, Scotland.〔 A soundtrack of ''Touch the Sound'' featuring Glennie and Frith, plus additional music and sounds from the film, was released in 2004.〔 An album based on Glennie and Frith's performances in the film entitled ''The Sugar Factory'' was released in 2007.〔 ==Background== German filmmaker Thomas Riedelsheimer's previous film ''Rivers and Tides'' (2001) received several awards, including Best Documentary awards by the German Film Critics Association, the San Diego Film Critics Society and the San Francisco Film Critics Circle.〔 The soundtrack of the film was composed and performed by English experimental musician Fred Frith.〔 In 2003 Riedelsheimer asked Frith to perform with Scottish percussionist Evelyn Glennie in ''Touch the Sound''. The venue was an abandoned sugar factory in Dormagen, Germany, and their performance was filmed under the pretext of "making a record". Frith and Glennie had never worked together before and their entire performance was improvised. For the purpose of the documentary the musicians performed apart in the huge empty factory, which Frith said "was great visually, but limited in other ways".〔〔 In addition to appearing on the soundtrack of ''Touch the Sound'', music from Frith and Glennie's performance in the sugar factory was later reworked and released by the pair on a CD in 2007 entitled ''The Sugar Factory''.〔〔 Riedelsheimer explained why he chose to create a film about Glennie: "I was so struck by her. What was amazing was not so much the music itself but the way she is in it. That finally became the subject – not music, but sound and the ability to feel the sounds around us."〔 He said that the "biggest challenge" of the project was to "transfer acoustics or sound ideas into images" and "to find images that are metaphors for these sounds".〔 Riedelsheimer did not want to make a film about a deaf person who succeeds as a musician, he wanted a film about the physical nature of sound, something that can be felt, and Glennie was ideal to demonstrate it.〔 The film took three years to make, one year to raise money, one year filming at 16 locations around the world, and another year editing the results in post-production. It was shot on 16 mm film with one microphone and one camera, and later blown up to 35 mm during editing.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Touch the Sound」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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