Jacob Collier's Famous Audience Choirs | Simon Sinek

4 Feb 2025 · 0 min

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A short conversation (transcript) from a YouTube video where two speakers (A and B) discuss how audiences intuitively follow musical direction: simple hand gestures (moving hand high/low) reliably guide a crowd’s pitch/volume, illustrating that the music is “in us” and that people take direction naturally. The clip focuses on audience participation and the embodied, communal nature of live performance.

There is something as you're talking about it, I mean, and I'm thinking about. And some of the videos of yours, you know, when you're going like this, and then you go like this, everybody knows how far to go down. And if you go like this, everybody knows how far to go down. Moving your hand, you know, very low down and moving your hand just a little bit.
Yeah.
And. And everybody gets it right.
Yeah.
Well, that's a strange. Like, we take direction.
Yes.
But to your point about. The music is in us.
Exactly. And the audience choir, as I like to call it, has been, I would say, my greatest teacher in simplifying music. Because there's no rehearsal and there's no planning, and you're working with what people don't know that they already know, but they actually do know. So one interesting thing about my audience is that, like, I sell far more tickets than my streaming numbers would suggest. And I think it's because a lot of the things I most enjoy about my work is our experiences. I love having experiences with people. I love the audience. I love conversations at large where people are playing, collaborating. Maybe it's with an orchestra, maybe it's with a band, whatever. I just love it.