Violinist Creates Mario Music and Sound Effects as the Game is Played

By John Farrier in Music, Video and Computer Games on Jun 20, 2010 at 12:39 am

Playing the Mario theme on the violin is nice, but not neato. What makes this video different is that it appears that pro violinist Teppei Okada plays the theme and sound effects in sync with someone else playing the game. What’s unclear is whether or not the game is pre-recorded (and thus practiced) or impromptu. The latter of which would, of course, be extra awesome.

There are similar videos in the YouTube channel, or you can go to Geekologie for a nice selection.

YouTube Channel via Geekologie | Violinist’s Website

Tags: Super Mario Bros.

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James
Jun 20th, 2010 at 6:44 pm
Pre-recorded; you can see the ‘play’ button in the lower left of the screen at the beginning. Not that it makes it any les awesome.

I like the ‘tricks’ he performs on the violin for ‘non-musical’ sound effects. Well done.
Vaxjo
Jun 20th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Don’t miss the others – he did an entire series of games in this manner.
JustanEducator
Jun 21st, 2010 at 12:39 am
I love it! This reminds me of the “Mario A Capella” group on YouTube. Check it out if you are interested. -JustanEducator
Josh
Jun 21st, 2010 at 4:16 pm
Starting screen shows three lives.

Game Over after one death.

Incorrect. Recalculate.
Yvonne
Jun 21st, 2010 at 6:09 pm
It would take a PHENOMINAL professional musician to be able to do it AS the game is played; as it is, he’s pretty fantastic to be able to do it as well as he does. I’m impressed! I’ll be looking for his other videos…If I were still teaching school orchestra, I’d show these to my younger students; they’d love them!

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