Instruments Using Marble

The marble machine is a handmade music box that powers a kick drum bass vibraphone and other instruments using a hand crank and 2 000 marbles.

Instruments using marble.

Marbles is a source of random gates and voltages which offers an extensive amount of voltage control on all the different flavors of randomness it produces. 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. In honor of the marble machine x nearing completion enjoy this masterpiece. It even uses lego technic parts.

The instrument is built largely from wood and is operated by a perplexing array of manually operated pulleys gears and levers. Taking two years to complete the fantastically complex wintergatan marble machine is comprised of 3000 internal parts and uses 2000 marbles to make music. Wintergatan marble machine music instrument using 2000 marbles folktronica. Wintergatan marble machine music instrument using 2000 marbles folktronica.

Inspired by the marble machine subculture who knew martin molin has designed an incredible instrument. Synchronization to external clocks control of the repetition or novelty of. Marble machine music instrument using 2000 marbles duration. The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands.

Controlled chaos repeatable randomness. 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. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan. Music and marble machine composed and built by martin molin filmed and edited by hannes knutsson video where he is making the.

Or 22 songs that can be played using a complicated formula that he explains in a video. The module gives the musician many different ways of imposing structure on the random events generated by the module. 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.