Derren Brown – Mental Conducting
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From Trick of the Mind #3. Experience one of the present day masters of mentalism, magic, psychology, suggestion and misdirection.
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Once he heard the right tune, his facial cues let them know they were on the right track.
nothing amazing about this. These are professional musicians who have plenty of repertoire internalized in their musical memory and once a few of them started playing around with the them to “ode” and the director let it be known through his facial expressions that this is what it was he had written down, they just all started playing that piece. It’s the same as doing the same experiment with a group of jazz musicians. In no time they would have all picked up on a common theme or riff.
“it is a little odd….”
i had chosen that tune too.just great.
it’s quite simple to explain, the conductor was searching for someone in the orchestra to start playing something in the tune of ode to joy, then when he heard it, he made eye contact with them, so that person played it a little bit louder, and other people followed.
it’s basic human psychology, works the same way as people following fashion trends.
ain’t nothing mental. people just pickup something they hear next to them and play along with it. When there’s a good base for a piece, the rest will join in. Still amazing though, but nothing mental or special, just human
yes…like manicmedic86, during “warming up” i started to hum Ode to Joy in my head as well.
He maybe a memorization master, it is still an amazing talent/gift.
Listen to the overemphasized, mispronounced, unnecessary, or repeated words:
dYNnamic (nine)
pODium (ode)
“bhey don’t have” (beethoven)
There were probably many more subconcious cues he gave them that were edited out for time.
Then the players played random noise until the conductor’s body language told them they were getting warm… warmer…
They’re used to responding to his body language, of course.
I have chills! While they were “warming up” i started to hum Ode to Joy in my head. i damn near fell over in my chair when they brought it together!
I think the conductor’s head movements got the ‘ritmo’ going. You only need a few members of the orchestra to pick on it and the rest will follow. There is a lot of body language going on.
But HOW exactly does it work. Of course it’s sub-consciousness, man. But how does it work that all people play the same song?
@bckyrdboogie God’s the conductor?
@SamHawkens There’s nothing magical about this, it’s all sub-conscious.
I must admit he seemed to emphasize the words “be” a few times, so I thought it would be flight of the bumble bee….shows what I know.
@Alexopolux Its sortof like a poetic Big Bang.
No, my user name is no combination of them. It is the name of a persona in several old German western novels written by Karl May.
absolutely agree. i just said those names because I thought your youtube username was a combination of them.
btw just so i don’t look like an idiot i’m not a 9/11 truther like my name suggests
I am a sceptic concerning all paranormal investigations or so-called skills. They simply do not exist. But I am not fully an atheist. I say that scientists are actually discussing things like time travel or parallel universes — if parallel universes exist, there might even be an afterlife.
That’s my position: we don’t know whether there is an afterlife or God. But we do know that there is no telekinesis, no “mind reading”, no contact to deceased people.
sam harris
christopher hitchens
richard dawkins
he’s prolly jiggling inside everytime someone thinks there’s something supernatural going on
Also, consider, that you predicting the piece of music may have been a result of you being manipulated by Darren through his words or actions. It’s one of the few pieces of ubiquitous symphonic music easily referenced by a single number.
to quote the wiki:
Hindsight bias is the inclination to see events that have occurred as more predictable than they in fact were before they took place. Hindsight bias has been demonstrated experimentally in a variety of settings, including politics, games and medicine. In psychological experiments of hindsight bias, subjects also tend to remember their predictions of future events as having been stronger than they actually were, in those cases where those predictions turn out correct.
do you think so?
I guessed it would be Ode to Joy as soon as I saw the title for the video.
It was not the experiment that amazed me. It was more the slow convergence of sounds till the ode. It was beautiful. I think this the way in which the universe operates..
Thats the beauty of his skill. Its way mroe interesting to see someone be able to manipulate peoples thoughts rather than “mind read” like hundres of other youtube clips claim to do and which is still quite silly some may say. This is real stuff Derren Brown is doing.
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