Mosaic by Christian Scherer

Description

30+ professional routines. 40+ years of experience. 450 pages. Mosaic perfectly captures the enduring legacy of Christian Scherer—a masterful magician who has dedicated more than four decades of his life to creating powerful, original, audience-tested material with clever methods and thoughtful presentations.

Christian Scherer is a multiple time award-winning magician, gifted prop maker, and overall legend in German-speaking magic circles. However, due to his limited material in English, he is less known in other parts of the world. That all changes with Mosaic. We’re so honored to introduce Christian to the global magic community with a stunning hardback book containing his best material from the last 40 years (almost all of which has never been available in English before).

The title of this book stems from Christian’s belief that a good magic routine must come together like a mosaic. Each individual piece must be identified and then carefully molded to fit neatly with the other pieces to create the broader picture. You’ll not only learn Christian’s best secrets, but will get a rare peek into his fine-tuned philosophy for creating strong magic and making your audiences care in a way that will have them surrendering to the illusion of experiencing the impossible.

This vast text contains something for every magician. There is super strong card material, of course. But you’ll also find incredible coin magic like “World’s Smallest Currency Converter”, a unique and fun routine that will have your audience convinced your Okito Box is actually a revolutionary piece of technology with magical powers. There are also more enigmatic routines like “Free Fall”, where you seemingly possess the ability to make time slow down; as well as intriguing, offbeat parlor routines like “Magic Miniature Golf”, where a mystical golf club and teleporting golf balls come together to leave your audience as entertained as they are stunned.

To improve the learning process, detailed descriptions of each effect are accompanied by more than 700 intricate illustrations that Christian drew by hand. He’s also included his scripting and presentation ideas for each effect.

Christian rounds out these amazing routines with a variety of thought-provoking essays. His groundbreaking thoughts on the Cups and Balls will have you completely rethinking your approach to this all-time classic.