Sounds and Silence – Travels with Manfred Eicher

Winner of the Berner Film Prize 2009 and nominated for the Swiss Film Prize,“Sounds and Silence” is a musical road movie about the passionate career of a man obsessed with music. On the way through a world of sounds and noise – with Manfred Eicher, the oustanding discoverer and mediator of contemporary music and founder of the music label ECM. On this journey we meet musicians and composers, but also people and places which are connected with him and with each other. We encounter stories, landscapes, cities, disputes and hugs, tranquillity, hectic pace, work, self-doubt, joy, passion. This is a sensual, impressive, meditative film that accomplishes the extraordinary: to catch the magic of music.

Soloist: 

Manfred Eicher (Narrator)