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Hay again

id like to end my show with this simple vision , just a spec in the audience with a cd player, presses play, then something....

not sure of an effect i could use this for?? i thought a cd prediction? But as far that is all the ideas that seem to fit well enough

any ideas guys would be great thank you so damned much

hope your all having a lovey day

sam

How about a book test?

You hold up an envelope which you say has a prediction inside. Have the CD player on the table along with three books, have a volunteer choose one of the books, ask them to flip through and allow the pages to fall open naturally at any point, then have then read from the top of the page.

The prediction is opened to reveal the words 'Play me' written in bold font, the volunteer plays the C.D. and it's an audio book at the same point as the spectators choice, you can then take the C.D out to show it's the same book as the one selected, and written on the C.D. or in the C.D case is the page number stopped at.

If you can get a C.D. player with a small remote and you can make / edit your own C.D., you could get more scope as to what page they stop on or even what point in the book they start reading.


However I do think a stronger ending to a show would be a popular song 'fairly selected' from a list by the entire audience and played, but you'll have to work on proving that all the song options aren't on the C.D.

Actually if you can hook the C.D. player up to a computer (or keep it simple, just have the computer speaker hidden behind the C.D. player) than you can have someone name literally any song and just have a friend backstage get the song up on youtube.

If you have the money and you want to disprove a 'high tech' solution you can buy a simple or antique Record Player and a Blank Vinyl

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Best use I've seen of this kind of gear was Ian D Montford. He used it as a kind of "any song asked for" effect. Someone's given a jiffy bag and asked to focus on any song that they like. At the end of the show, you bring out the player, ask the participant to come on stage with the jiffy bag. They open it, play the CD on the machine, and it's their song.

You could have some fun mixing up forces and free choices, Enigma stylee, too.

Oh, and if you use this on stage, do not run the sound through the desk. Have the player play on stage, and get the participant to hold a microphone to the speaker. If the player runs through the desk, then people will assume all kinds of dirty business going on backstage.