The Wintergaten Marble Machine Is Insane

Fortunately for us and maybe for him the end result is just as astounding as the concept of a marble driven music machine is.

The wintergaten marble machine is insane.

Wintergatan are gearing up to release a double album embark on a world tour with the marble machine x. The artist has made the full track in all its complex glory available at bandcamp for those interested. And for stuff that is generally insane. Martin molin and marcus sjöberg were previously part of the former band detektivbyrån the band uses a variety of unconventional instruments including the modulin a fingerboard controlled synthesizer built from doepfer eurorack modules.

The winter street is a swedish folktronica band from gothenburg. Wintergatan showing off the bass of the marble machine. Created dec 16 2018. I originally learned about wintergatan when i stumbled upon their marble machine an instrument that uses 2000 marbles and plays music via a hand crank.

This mesmerizing video captures a demonstration of the marble conveyor belt a new marble music machine from the engineering and innovation focused swedish folktronica band wintergatan band member and inventor martin molin is at the crank. Machine for short dreamt up and created this programmable instrument back in 2014 for his band wintergatan. Steel marbles levers gears a maze of tracks and tubes and so much more. ˈvɪ nːtɛrˌɡɑːtan the milky way lit.

Wintergatan showing off the bass of the marble machine. March 12 2017 you won t believe the sweet sound of this incredible invention. To be fair molin didn t exactly reinvent the wheel so to speak. Posted by 2 months ago.

I fell in love with the group and this is an earlier album where they combine the music from a music box with a device called a modulin an electronic violin that sounds like a theremin. Swedish resident genius martin molin the creator of this insanely wonderful thing which he lovingly dubs the m.