Marble Machine Built By Martin Molin

The marble machine is versatile.

Marble machine built by martin molin.

The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands. Wintergatan marble machine a music instrument using 2000 marbles. The new machine to be called marble machine x would solve a multitude of mechanical functionality problems with the original marble machine. The wintergatan marble machine built by swedish musician martin molin and filmed by hannes knutsson is moving to a museum in utrecht by michael rundle and victoria woollaston 16 mar 2017.

This time the swedish designer brings to life an interpretation of martin molin s music machine x a marble powered music box. 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. One of the most popular inventors after martin molin and his 21 million views is matthias wandel the same engineer who inspired the musician. Marble machine built and composed by martin molin filmed and edited by hannes knutsson.

Nasa s final space shuttle mission begins with atlantis launch. After working on the machine for over 14 months he released a music video featuring the marble machine in 2016 which as of august 2020 has over 150. Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. The wintergartan marble machine built by swedish musician martin molin is unlike anything i ve ever seen before.

Martin molin the builder of the original marble machine is collaborating with a team of engineers and designers as well as fans for the design and build of the marble machine x. Marin molin best known for his band wintergatan the ingenious wooden hand cranked machine that plays music with 2000 marbles is the inspiration behind the mmxs marble machine xs is a miniature homage to molin. Martin molin s marble machine is not the first of its kind. Martin molin born 1983 is a grammis swedish grammy.

Molin built his marble machine a music box made of 3000 components that played using 2000 metal balls.