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 ...

[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 ...

For a musician, nearly anything can be used as an instrument: Garbage bins can be played like drums; rubber bands can be plucked like the strings of a bass guitar. Even your own hands can be employed ...

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.

For American television viewers of the 1970s, The Magnificent Marble Machine was a gimmicky, short-lived game show centered around a giant pinball machine. The strange NBC daytime series probably owed ...

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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, ...

After two years of prototyping, tweaking, and building, Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan finally debuted his enormous musical marble machine. The melody is primarily carried by a ...

Artist Martin Molin has spent the last 14 months designing and hand-building the Musical Marble Machine, a huge loom- or printing press-like contraption made from birch ply that makes use of 2,000 ...

Over the centuries, man has developed wonderful and intricate instruments that would delight our ears and pluck at our heartstrings. But what if you could somewhat undo all that and replace them with ...