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Mesaboogie Special user 804 Posts |
Hi all,
I've had a lot of PM's asking for the URL for my recent radio show where I performed a number of mentalism effects. Well, the clips are now live and can be found on my website. This was my first radio performance and was a great experience. I really would be most grateful for any feedback, positive AND MOST DEFINITELY "negative" comments welcome - or how else do we grow as performers? Kind Regards Andrew |
Photofnish Regular user Issaquah, WA 140 Posts |
Very well done, Andrew. I really enjoyed listening to these clips. All of your presentations were great.
Andrew: Just curious -- by what method (peek, impression device, etc.) did you achieve your drawing dupe? It "sounded" very clean. Also -- I really like the way you milked the ID presentation for all it was worth, once again showing that the simplest of effects can have huge impact with great presentation. I like your "Magic Man" moniker -- it has a nice, familiar ring to it (I'm guessing people sometimes break into the Heart song when they see you) -- but I'm wondering if you find that the "magic" tag ever detracts from the mentalist/psychological approach that you take. Do people dismiss your effects as mere "tricks"? |
dr chutney Special user United Kingdom 518 Posts |
Good stuff, Andrew. I did enjoy that ID routine as well, and the reaction in the studio showed how well that played. Presentation, presentation, presentation.
Nice web site as well. Simple, uncluttered, and to the point.
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ThomasBerger Special user 593 Posts |
Andrew
Good job with the Radio Interview. You had a good reaction from the people in the studio which is the most important part, I think. On a technical level, the downloads are way too big. Nearly 20 Mbyte for the 5 files. You should encode MP3 to: 22.1 kHz, 16 bits, mono or even 11kHz, 16 bits, mono for speech. These settings will reduce your file size by making them 5 to 11 times smaller with only slightly less quality for speech. If you like, I can do it for you. As well, I would be happy to embed them into Streaming Flash for you, so that you get virtually instant streaming, even on a slow modem. You can see my Real Estate site for streaming audio, it is set on the lowest level of quality at 11Khz, 16 bit mono to stream to a 56k modem. http://look180.com http://voicebutton.com If you email your clients with the links for your radio stuff, it gets them excited, and you might pick up some work from it. At the least it keeps you in their mind. You had a good interview, I think you should keep the momentum up for old clients/new enquiries. If you want to stream your audio, I'll help you for free. Just send me an email afterwards so that I can use it as a testimonial for the streaming, and we are even. I am setting up a streaming media site for video and audio, so it would help me too. Cheers. Tom |
cardiac Loyal user Reading, U.K. 250 Posts |
Congratulations on the radio interview - you handled them really well and the stuff you chose went down great, the reactions were excellent!
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Mesaboogie Special user 804 Posts |
Thanks all.
Photofinish, I never really go all out saying I'm just a mentalist. I do magic and psychological mind tricks. It so happens that card tricks would not really have worked on the radio, being visual, so I went purely with the psychological approach - an area I'm moving toward fully, anyway. I still find, however, for loud parties, weddings, that visual magic still works best to break the ice before showing the REAL stuff. I don't mind how people label me, and I don't mind being called a magician. However, whenever I perform psychological magic, I never get the response of "that was clever, how did you do that?", rather they ponder on some other sort of phenomenon having happened - which is what I want. Tom, I'll PM you. |
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