It’s a documentary, shooting from New York to Cologne, Tokyo to Scotland, about the Scottish percussionist, Evelyn Glennie, a Grammy winner in 1988, yet, she is 90% deaf. After watching the film, I believe one can be a musician even though one cannot hear, because, music is something more than just sound.
It is a successful documentary as one would be inspired after watching it even though most of the scenes are, Evelyn Glennie improvising music with Fred Frith, a British composer, improviser and multi-instrumentalist, to let the audience listen, observe and feel without any monologue or dialogue.
I have a new view towards music after watching this film, music is not only sound for hearing or listening, but it carries a force, through every movement of instruments and objects around, every vibration from instrument and objects around, one can see, touch and feel music too. "Touch the sound" did remind me of the film “Mr. Holland’s opus” about how music can touch people even the deaf ones.
It is ironic that sometimes we don’t manage to listen well, we ignore some sounds around us, even though we can hear well. But for Evelyn Glennie, her other sensitive senses would remedy her deafness. I believe that everyone would be surprised by her music as I was. An improvised and experimental music jammed by a musician who cannot hear is even better than some well arranged pieces of music, unbelievable! Leaving the house of cinema, I started to notice every sound surrounding me, which was constructed into music.
