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01 December 2005

Acoustic Video Game Music

Pac9anglemedium_2Each year I make a pilgrimage to the E3 conference.  E3 is the largest annual conference for the "interactive entertainment industry" -- also known as the video game industry.  The conference is one of the most tumultuous and cacophonous gatherings you could care to experience (I learned my lesson after the first year and now take Advil before even entering the convention center).  Video game manufacturers and publishers set up massive towering video screens buttressed by mind-numbingly loud speaker towers.  E3 is the ultimate digital experience.  Yet the most compelling thing I saw at E3 this year was 100% analog -- Martin Leung, the "Video Game Pianist."  Martin was at E3 playing video game themes on an upright piano and he had a bigger crowd than many of the sexy new video game titles themselves.  You can get a taste of Martin's E3 performance here.  And Martin's not the only one who's musical sensibilities have been influenced by the video game culture.  Check out this video of electric bass player Jean Baudin playing his version of the Super Mario Brothers theme on a 9 string electric bass.  -- David Hornik

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