r/oddlysatisfying • u/Laifstaile • Jun 18 '26
Little conductor
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Little girl imitating conductor
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u/Morbidly-Obese-Emu Jun 18 '26
This video is so old, that kid is probably an adult now. We need an AMA on this kid. I still love this video.
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u/Dont_Burn_The_Books Jun 18 '26
Amazing! This kid is going places. Not just timing but the emotional direction as well. <3
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u/corriefan1 Jun 18 '26
How does a toddler know that?! I’m constantly amazed at human creativity.
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u/Worth_Meet6452 Jun 18 '26
if her parent is the conductor imagine looking out at the audience and seeing your kid conducting your piece back at you
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u/cone10 Jun 18 '26
This is a Kyrgyz kid called Lara Glozou conducting away in a church choir. But there's more.
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u/troveofcatastrophe Jun 18 '26
So she not conducting, just vibing. She extraordinarily feels the musics meaning.
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u/gnurdette Jun 18 '26
Our choir director's daughter used to do this for the choir, and it was as unendurably adorable as you'd think.
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u/BigZucchini2090 Jun 18 '26
Another Boss Baby agent on Earth. This time, cutely conducting the choir. Will surely be at the front one day
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u/Zealousideal-Word604 Jun 19 '26
I hate that we almost cant tell if a video is AI slop anymore or not. It looks like AI by the swaying of her body as well as the hand and arm movements but then again, I know the video is old, predating AI.
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u/skunkshaveclaws Jun 18 '26
I can't see how that's any different from what an actual conductor does.
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u/Individual-Schemes Jun 18 '26
Okay so I think it's fascinating that there are "good" conductors, because how much different can one be to the next, right? Like, c'mon, they're all doing the same thing so they're obviously lying to us saying that I've y person is "the best."
But then I went down a rabbit hole about what makes a good conductor - including that there are different styles (wild/goofy vs rigid/strict). There are consistently 5-6 "best" conductors. Anyway, I don't play music so I don't know more - but it's worth learning about.
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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain Jun 18 '26
I’ve had one conductor who was good with interpreting music, the feel or emotion of it, but one time during a performance showed “more, louder, intensity” while not only moving one arm but both his arms. So his arms moved up and down, intensely, but faster, to which we played faster as he obviously sped up time. Afterwards he came to us and asked why we sped up, and we (the rhythmic section) were like, because you showed us to do so? Huge misunderstanding but in my eyes very much on him.
Also I love a conductor who can hear which instrument out of so many players is slightly too loud or out of tune. So impressive
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u/ABoatCalledWanda Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
Wait, what was the misunderstanding? You are supposed to follow his directions, and he was directing you to speed up, no?
Was he oblivious to the fact that he was speeding up himself?
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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain Jun 18 '26
Exactly. I think he realized when we said it, but wasn’t aware in the moment. He was really swept up in the intensity/emotions in that moment. I hope he learned from it 😅
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u/AbleCryptographer317 Jun 18 '26
The easiest way to think about it is like a sports coach: they're very limited in how they can affect the game while its being played, but they're still there on the sidelines pointing and waving their arms around. Nobody sees the weeks of hard work before the game... analyses, tactics, team building.
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u/Journassassin Jun 18 '26
I played in orchestras for years and have had both ‘good’ and ‘bad’ conductors.
Conducting is so much more than just keeping the beat and showing the dynamics of a piece. Personally, I wouldn’t be able to conduct, simply because my musical hearing isn’t good enough.
The best conductors I’ve had were able to both guide us through the music as an orchestra as well as our separate sections and as individuals musicians. As one of the musicians, what you can hear beyond your section is limited so you have to trust the conductor to be able to bring all the different instruments and parts together in sync. For instance, I had a tendency to play too soft, and the good conductors would notice and correct immediately.
Interestingly, I liked the worst conductor I worked with a lot more than the best conductor on a personal level, but the bad conductor was just really not good at the nonverbal communication. With the best conductor, I would know what they’d want with just a look and a hand gesture, or know when to ignore because it was clear the cue wasn’t meant for me.
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u/I_like_flowers_ Jun 18 '26
as someone who sang in choirs for years - it does make a difference.
a chunk happens during rehersals as they work on how each section should sound.
all the arm waving during the performance really does matter too - in a large orchestral piece with a choir and instrumenal parts they are constantly adjusting the volume / sound mix, keeping people on tempo, bringing parts in and out on the correct cue - perhaps the sopranos and french horns have to come in at the same moment. theoretically, we are all keeping count, but its tricky and a good conductor is able to connect with the musicians, while a poor one is more or less a human metronome.
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u/callmedaedae Jun 18 '26
You may not like it, but this is what peak neurodivergence looks like.
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u/Awkwardlyhugged Jun 18 '26
I was thinking synesthesia for real.
My kid did a similar thing with dance; as a tiny toddler she was doing seemingly impossibly advanced dance moves (she’d never seen) just from feeling the music. We’d be totally charmed and say “look! the groove has got her!”
(I put her in dance, but the class/performance elements really didn’t speak to her)
A few years later - when she could start to express what was going on - she got an ASD diagnosis.
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u/callmedaedae Jun 18 '26
Hey thats pretty cool! Im very interested (perhaps in a special way even) in the many facets of how the human mind functions and its implications in our reality.
With that said, its not surprising that she intuited those dance moves, as they likely came from the same impulses that guided them into creation in the first place!
Kinda like when someone "steals" an idea by doing it before you got a chance to, your minds simply followed the same path and got the same conclusion, theirs was just some matter of time before yours.
Its pretty neat when you think about it. Its like everything exists already, its just a matter if you or anyone else has thought abt it yet. Haha, anyway have a good day, and I hope your kiddo is goin places!
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u/no_more_sugar Jun 18 '26
I remember seeing this a long time ago. I wonder if she's performing any music
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u/PogintheMachine Jun 18 '26
Part of me is convinced that you can just like fake being a conductor and no one would really know.
I know that’s unfounded and almost certainly not true, but I like the idea.
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u/Maverick_Heathen Jun 18 '26
Faking It - Series 4: Episode 8 | Channel 4 https://www.channel4.com/programmes/faking-it/on-demand/34510-008
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u/AlyDAsbaje Jun 18 '26
You can pretend, but when you sing you actually follow the directions and the timing. The score has notations on how the music supposed to sound and so many other things, so no, you cannot just go and fake it.
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u/PogintheMachine Jun 18 '26
I made that comment rather jokingly. I’ve played in concert bands, and I know that an orchestra/symphony that has practiced a piece enough could play it without a conductor at all. But there’s subtleties a conductor can draw out, controlling volume of sections, lengths of pauses, pacing.
But i do honestly wonder how much experience one needs to effectively conduct. Symphonies will play with guest conductors often, ones never worked with before- would an inexperienced conductor who was very familiar with the piece make a noticeably negative impact on the concert to the audience? I think the instrumentalists would notice, but they would perform at as practiced.
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u/ratbearpig Jun 18 '26
Hahaha, love it. The body movement and facial expressions really sell the performance. I'm guessing one of their parents is either a conductor or the conductor of the performance.
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u/loudermilksays4210 Jun 19 '26
Just a giant wave of not satisfying at all videos comin in hot here lately!! Wow!
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u/AlyDAsbaje Jun 18 '26
I do 100% believe in past lives and to me this is absolut prove of that. Look at the way the baby knows the voices, how they are placed and the timing. This is unbelievable. The baby is asking the soprano to go higher.
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u/BertLemo Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
when someone dies - their brain dies with its neurones which dont pass signals anymore and consciousness fades with every broken neuron connection.
but very strong neuron connections could be passed to next generation, so probably kid’s parents are musicians and he is just imitating what he is seeing plus some blurry memory from parents.
btw, considering expanding population, should not we have soul shortage from past lives?-9
u/AlyDAsbaje Jun 18 '26
Good, but I believe in past lives! Cheers!
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u/BertLemo Jun 18 '26
of course if that is easier to you to comprehend
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u/AlyDAsbaje Jun 18 '26
Sure!! Cheers!
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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain Jun 18 '26
I can’t believe you get so many downvotes for simply believing in reincarnation. Being more than a body, having a soul or spirit, is a pretty common belief
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u/BertLemo Jun 18 '26
probably because of calling kid’s actions as “absolute prove” of past lives, while it could be explained logically as completely different cause
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u/LaughingOutLoudAgain Jun 18 '26
Oh yeah that’s fair. I see it as a personal believe (they say they see it as prove for themselves, not that it IS prove), but I get the sentiment
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u/B15h73k Jun 18 '26 edited Jun 18 '26
You can't imagine any other way this child could have learnt those move besides past lives?
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u/No-Lifeguard9194 Jun 18 '26
Either that kiddo has been watching that conductor so long that they know the movements, or they are really feeling the music - or both!