Lou Reed had Metal Machine Music. Musician and inventor Martin Molin has Marble Machine Music. Molin, who is a member of Swedish musical act Wintergatan, has designed a gigantic machine that is an ...

Swedish band Wintergatan may be widely known for its Marble Machine music video (which featured a machine dropping marbles to play drums, a bass, and other instruments), but today I learned that ...

Remember Martin Molin's Marble Machine X, the mechanical, musical Rube Goldberg machine that uses some 3,000 components and a hand-turned crank to drop marbles in sequences onto acoustic and electric ...

Inspired by the enormous marble music machines from the staggeringly talented [Wintergatan] and the marble run builds by [Daniel de Bruin], [Ivan Miranda] has been busy again building a largely 3D ...

[A Science Reporter's Culture Walk] Where Engineering Meets Music: The Wintergatan Marble Machine Martin Molin, leader of the Swedish music band Wintergatan, personally designed and built the ...

There have been plenty of impressively elaborate musical machines in recent years, but this might top them all. Swedish band Wintergatan has crafted a Musical Marble Machine that, as the name suggests ...

A musician by the name of Martin Molin, from the Swedish band Wintergatan, has created and built an amazing musical instrument he calls the Marble Machine -- and you won't believe how good it sounds.

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If Rube Goldberg had a band, we now know what the musicians would likely have played. A Swedish musician has created a incredibly complex musical instrument that uses an intricate web of gears, ...

Take a couple of thousand steel balls, add a large wooden gear with neodymium magnets embedded in it, and what do you get? Either the beginnings of a wonderful kinetic music machine, or a mess of ...

It's marble madness, and oh so satisfying. A video posted Tuesday promoting the 2016 tour for Swedish band Wintergatan has gone viral ... and for good reason. Who knows how many hours would be ...