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Synchronous Super Mario accompaniment on a violin

Cory Doctorow at 7:03 am Fri, Feb 11, 2011

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This stylish and talented young gentleman uses his fiddle to perform a stringed accompaniment to a Super Mario round, expertly recreating both the soundtrack and the one-up, Goomba-stomp and other sounds.

Super Mario Game Theme: Violin (via Neatorama)

 
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  • wetdog2

    For this, you went to Juilliard?

  • Forrest

    This seems odd to us now, but in the early 20th century, the silent video game era, they actually had a live accompaniment for all video game sound tracks. This is how your great grandfather played Super Mario Brothers.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, some of the best stuff on the internet comes from Nico Nico

  • caipirina

    What Micah said … it looked very familiar .. but then again, the link Lisa K. was pointing to has been youtubized and so it is nice to have a new link

  • Donald Petersen

    Now, if the guy could accompany a real-time playthrough instead of a recorded (and thus rehearsable) playback, my jaw would hit the floor and I’d humbly hand it to him.

    As it is, he’ll just have to settle for being very, very good.

    And natty.

  • TimDrew

    If he did the same for Pong, it would sound very Philip Glass, I suspect.

  • overgrown

    y’all ever check out megaband?

  • Elton

    LOVE IT. I finally know what to push my kids to excel at if I go all tiger-mama on them.

  • Anonymous

    I STILL feel anxious when he goes under ground and I hear that music.

  • Anonymous

    White tie! Gentleman is right!

  • Micah

    I know it’s not cool to point these things out, but…

    http://www.boingboing.net/2010/06/18/violinist-plays-mari.html

    • bklynchris

      THAT’S what I thought too!!! It may or may not be cool, but what is sad is that we both remembered this!