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 ...

Back in 2016, we featured a stunning wooden machine that employed falling steel marbles to play a merry tune. As plans are drawn up for a new version, its builder has looked back to the designs of ...

When Swedish musician Martin Molin set out to make a musical instrument that runs on marbles, he figured it would only take a couple of months. The process turned out to be a little more complicated ...

[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 ...

Martin Molin might be an electronica musician, but he’s an electronica musician who is fascinated by curiously analog instruments. As the frontman of Swedish band Wintergatan, Molin plays instruments ...

[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 ...

In the video above, every single sound you hear is being made by Swedish musician Martin Molin’s incredible Wintergatan Marble Machine. The wildly complicated hand-cranked contraption is like a music ...

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.

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 ...

“First, it’s important to say I didn’t invent the culture of the marble machines,” Martin Molin says. “Are you aware of the marble machine culture? It’s such a scene.” I was not aware of such a scene, ...

While this is authentic footage of a genuine product, the "perpetual" marble machine does not operate infinitely without an additional energy source. Rather, it uses batteries and a magnet to create ...

NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with Martin Molin, creator of the marble machine, on Weekend Edition Sunday. You can hear their conversation at the audio link. The "Marble Machine" is a musical instrument ...