Inspired by the marble machine subculture who knew martin molin has designed an incredible instrument.
Marble instrument machine.
The wintergartan marble machine itself is a work of art after designing a blueprint for it using 3d software molin meticulously crafted almost every piece of the rube goldberg type instrument.
The marbles are moved internally through the machine using funnels pulleys and tubes.
The wintergartan marble machine built by swedish musician martin molin and filmed by hannes knutsson is a hand made music box that powers a kick drum bass vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2 000 marbles.
This is the wintergatan marble machine.
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The machine is powered by a hand crank.
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Taking two years to complete the fantastically complex wintergatan marble machine is comprised of 3000 internal parts and uses 2000 marbles to make music.
From old school to contemporary golden state vibes marble rims offers sampled vintage gear synths and staple analog drum machines.
Between december 2014 and march 2016 the band uploaded several youtube videos featuring martin molin documenting the construction of a music box that uses marbles to play instruments.
Marble rims delivers the laid back beats and funked out flavor of west coast urban groove with thick analog synth leads basses poly synths soulful pianos guitar licks and more.
The machine is not designed to be a circus act it is designed to be a good sounding music instrument.
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The instrument is built largely from wood and is operated by a perplexing array of manually operated pulleys gears and levers.
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It even uses lego technic parts.