Touch the Sound (soundtrack) Touch the Sound (soundtrack) 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. 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,
Jim Glennie cause. He and the band's singer Tim Booth often had many conflicts, due to Glennie feeling Booth was not doing what was best for the band. Saul Davies admitted in the 2006 Q article that Glennie and Booth "didn't always see eye to eye". Glennie often looks back fondly at the early years of the band, having no money and a bloody minded ignorance to the traditional forms of modern studio recording. He is also the only remaining original member of James. Glennie's style of playing is very much punk influenced as he mostly uses a plectrum to play the