Playing Mario

Hi

This is a sound representation of the Mario bros game being played; we have the very well known music of the game, and also the sounds that you would hear if you were playing it, according to the stage that each music represents.

This video game and it's music are in the collective imaginery of almost everyone, since it 

was so popular, which gives the audience a role on the performance as well, since we are appealing to their minds who are imagining the scene, so the noises actually make sense because they are associated with a particular image or situation of the game.

Following this idea, at the end of the video I play a curious Japanese instrument called "otomatone" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qecPQ0FB-64 ) which helps us enter into the midi sonority, typical of the video games of the 90s.

Here is a video of a concert I did with a friend in Chile for Piano and Musical Saw (along with other unconventional instruments), where we did this, with not only a musical purpose but a humorous one.

It starts at the minute 27:45.

I hope you enjoy it.