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 ...

Swedish maestro Martin Molin has been toiling over a new version of the Marble Machine for some time and now we get to hear and see the fruits of his labours. The Marble Machine X builds on the ...

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 ...

[Martin] of [Wintergatan] is on a quest to create the ultimate human-powered, modern marble music machine. His fearless mechanical exploration and engineering work, combined with considerable musical ...

The internet has often been at the forefront of musical invention in the modern age. But one Swedish musician has seemingly taken that to the next level, after he has created a huge, hand- crafted ...

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, ...

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Swedish band Wintergatan have released the Marble Machine’s debut performance on YouTube, where it has clocked up hundreds of thousands of views. The complex, crank-operated contraption was built by ...

Does spending 14 months building an outrageous musical contraption that's powered by marbles mean that you've lost yours? If the end result is as impressive as the Wintergartan Marble Machine, we'd ...