[Martin] of the band [Wintergatan] is on his third quest to build the ultimate musical marble machine, and that means dropping marbles with maximum reliability and precision timing. Working through ...

Marble machines are the kind of useless mechanisms that everybody loves. Their sole purpose is to route marbles through different paths for your viewing pleasure. They can be extremely complicated ...

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 ...

Last year, artist and musician Martin Molin of the Swedish band Wintergatan shared the results of his mechanical labor of love with the online community – the Musical Marble Machine. A captivating ...

[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 ...

Swedish band Wintergatan spent the past 14 months constructing what is called The Marble Machine music instrument. Utilizing 2000 marbles to produce playback of a song on their hand-built, ...

We've featured this guy before, his incredible marble - or ball bearing mechanical musical machines are a kind of steam-punk meets automaton meets barrel organ. The amount or work and problem solving ...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 2 (UPI) --A Netherlands engineer unveiled his 11,000-piece marble run with a hypnotic YouTube video featuring the marbles going down ramps. Jelle Bakker's "Marble Tsunami" ...

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 ...