Sound Reading

39 entries in Mental Magic / Principles / Sound Reading
Creators Title Comments & References Year Source Page AA Categories
Oswald Rae Musical Thought Transference spectators get lists of tunes and select one, later different lists are shown and spectators who see their tune say so, tune then divined by playing it on piano, matrix principle and location of spectators in the audience
Related to 1926
Between Ourselves
60
Theodore Annemann Dead Men Tell No Tales!
Variations 1934
SH-H-H--! It's A Secret
44
Paul Curry Ripping, Eh, What! for Annemann's Pseudo Psychometry, as a two person mental stunt, coding idea for assistant's tearing of the envelopes
Related toAlso published here July 1947
The Phoenix (Issue 129)
520
Bob Somerfeld Ripping! envelopes with items inside, selection with back turned is divined, sound reading
Related toVariations 1951
Mind Reader's Digest
1
Don Tanner Don Tanner's 4 Items: Item #3 performer blindfolded, spectator writes things on blackboard which are divined, sound reading
 		Mar. 1953
The Phoenix (Issue 276)
1103
Tony Corinda Part Three: Sound Reading
1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
38
Tony Corinda (1) Written Information Discovered by Sound Reading
  • The Designs to Use
  • The Numbers to Use
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
38
Tony Corinda (2) Sound Reading Applied to Action - Not Writing coin dropped in which box, coin lands head or tails up
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
39
Archie Byford Living and Dead Test
1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
40
Tony Corinda, Jon Tremaine, Alex Elmsley (1) Tapping Card Location spectator thinks of one of seven cards and taps the cards with a pencil, performer stops him when he taps the thought of card
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
41
Tony Corinda (2) Paranormal Precognition one of five symbols is drawn on a blackboard and divined by the spectator
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
41
Tony Corinda (3) A Pocket Trick pencil is removed from a box, color is divined, fake pencil
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
42
Tony Corinda (4) Clean Cut Card Trick Card is written on board and then divined
 		1958
Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading
42
North Bigbee Duplico blindfolded performer duplicates drawn ESP symbol
 		1961
Still More Miracles in Mentalism
43
Thomas Alan Waters Addenda to "Mystery of the Blackboard information written on blackboard is divined blindfolded
Inspired by Aug. 1961
The New Phoenix (Issue 360)
269
Milton Twin Echo geometric shape written on pad by first spectator, then a word by another, performer tears and burns both pieces, impression via sharp pencil, perhaps "D. Milton" (Fulves pseudonym)?
 		Winter 1970
The Pallbearers Review (Vol. 6 No. 4th Folio)
377
Sam Dalal The Basics on sound reading
 		1970ca.
Sound Mentalism
5
Sam Dalal The Two Sounds systematic approach to sound reading, symbols, letters, numbers
 		1970ca.
Sound Mentalism
6
Sam Dalal How to Practice using an amplifier to practice sound reading
 		1970ca.
Sound Mentalism
13
Sam Dalal The Act on performance using sound reading
 		1970ca.
Sound Mentalism
14
The Three Digit Miracle of Calder performer reads spectator's mind and vice versa
 		1975
The Magic of Francis Carlyle
124
B.C. Milnov See Hear! tips on sound reading
 		1975
Magick (Issue 143)
712
Dan Tong Empathy "3" cards, a word from a book and a geometrical design are divined blindfolded
Related to 1976
Magick (Issue 144)
719
B.C. Milnov Design Duplication triangle in circle
 		1976
Magick (Issue 161)
801
Harry Anderson The Anderson Effect spectator read mind of performer, number written on slate matches number written by performer on piece of paper
 		1977
Magick (Issue 182)
907
Karl Fulves A Psychic Secret "Piped in Sound", how to overhear conversations in other rooms with a piece of paper via plumbing
Related to 1978
Interlocutor (Issue 27)
103
B.C. Milnov Mind's Ear! divination of one out of six US cities
 		1980
Magick (Issue 249)
1243
Uriah Fuller Sound Reading
1980
Further Confessions of a Psychic
33
Gene Nielsen Symbols ESP cards, prediction in envelope
 		Jan. 1983
Magick (Issue 314)
1568
Philip T. Goldstein Riposte envelopes with items inside, selection with back turned is divined, sound reading
Inspired byAlso published here 1991
Thavant
44
Diabelli Ear of the Dragon as Harry Meier, three objects in three bags, one is removed while performer turns away, ashes are placed on paper and image of chosen object appears, audible method
 		1991
MindFields
72
Mark Edward Reigning Cats and Dogs three spectator select either the word cat or dog before the show and each choses a letter, performer divines words and places people in order so word can be read, humorous routine
 		1996
Syzygy (Vol. 3 No. 8)
211
Kazuyuki Hase Farben und Formen four envelopes with symbols, chosen one divined
Inspired byAlso published here 1997
Intermagic (Vol. 21 No. 4 & 5)
156
Lance Campbell Future Diet living and dead test, one paper with the word lemon other with orange written on it, paper that makes squeak sound
 		1999
Syzygy (Vol. 4 No. 15)
335
Paul Curry Pseudo Psychometry Tip as a two person mental stunt, coding idea for assistant's tearing of the envelopes
Also published here 2001
Paul Curry's Worlds Beyond
267
Philip T. Goldstein Silentalism
  • The Other Month
choices silently coded via location of spectators in the audience, assistant genuinely blindfolded
Inspired by
  • "Co-Design" (Ken Bowell, Magi-Go-Round, 1958)
Related to 		Feb. 2003
Genii (Vol. 66 No. 2)
63
Paolo Cavalli, Massimo Tira Odds & Ends, Bits & Pieces, Miscellanea brief notes on Pre-Show, umbrella analogy, a book test, pencil reading, sound reading, nail writer, stooges, FX
 		2004
Upsilon
47
Max Maven Riposte
  • Lost Horizons
envelopes with items inside, selection with back turned is divined, sound reading
Also published here Oct. 2011
Genii (Vol. 74 No. 10)
18
Kazuyuki Hase The Color Out of Space four envelopes with symbols, chosen one divined
Inspired byAlso published here 2013
Japan Ingenious
225