Inspired by the marble machine subculture who knew martin molin has designed an incredible instrument.
Marble instrument machine.
This is the wintergatan marble machine.
Completing the marble machine x compose record and release the marble.
From old school to contemporary golden state vibes marble rims offers sampled vintage gear synths and staple analog drum machines.
The instrument is built largely from wood and is operated by a perplexing array of manually operated pulleys gears and levers.
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.
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.
It even uses lego technic parts.
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The marbles are moved internally through the machine using funnels pulleys and tubes.
The machine is not designed to be a circus act it is designed to be a good sounding music instrument.
As the devices cycles it activates a vibraphone bass kick drum cymbal and other instruments that play a score programmed into a 32 bar loop comprised of lego technic parts.
Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan.
Taking two years to complete the fantastically complex wintergatan marble machine is comprised of 3000 internal parts and uses 2000 marbles to make music.
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 machine is powered by a hand crank.
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