Marble Instrument Machine

This is the wintergatan marble machine.
Marble instrument machine. It even uses lego technic parts. 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. 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. Get the audio track marble machine by wintergatan.
Mmx is designed to be amplified with microphones and for that we need high quality audio equipment and help from top audio engineers for recording and touring. The machine is not designed to be a circus act it is designed to be a good sounding music instrument. 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.
On this wintergatan wednesday i am reacting to so many amazing marble machine covers. 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. The marbles are moved internally through the machine using funnels pulleys and tubes. Plus exclusive live recorded instruments played by iconic kingpins of socal hip.
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. 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. Please share and enjoy and go give all the cover creators a lot of lov. Completing the marble machine x compose record and release the marble.
The machine is powered by a hand crank.