Adding Music to my Stage Shows

[Pete Pridanonda]

Hi Everyone,
I have been performing close up magic for 8 years and stage magic for 2 years. I would like to perform a piece of magic done to music on stage but I need help on where to start looking for the right materials. I know that I need to choose my own music because we have different tastes and what suits me might not suit others. My question is, what effects are good to be perform along with music on stage?
Thank you very much in advance,
Pete Pridanonda

 

[WitchDocIsIn]

Well, I think anything that doesn't require audience participation could be adapted.

The classics are manipulation acts - cards, coins, billiard balls, a mix, etc. There's thousands of examples, probably.

Jeff McBride has a lot of good acts to music. Soma's FISM Phone act is pretty good. At least one version of Yann Frisch's cups and balls is done to music.

I recall on one of the EMCs (It would have had to be the first or third) Luis DeMatos does the Sands of Arabia (I think that's the name of it?) to music. Tons of David Copperfield.

This is purely opinion, but I would try to start from one of two places. The preferred place would actually be to find music that really gets you going, and build an act around that. Listen to it repeatedly and just get feel for what you can imagine happening to the music. The other way is to come up with a routine and try to find music that fits it. In my experience, this can be really difficult and requires long hours of listening to a lot of music to find the perfect fit. Whenever possible, I have used the first method.

The worst way to go about it, I think, is to try to force it both ways. Figure out either the music or the act you want to do, and work from there. Don't let other people tell you what's good. Then you're doing their magic, not yours.

 

[Luis Vega]

well...also remember that the music has to fit your style... it´s so easy to forget that little detail....