Musician Martin Molin of the experimental music group Wintergatan has built a new instrument that uses 2,000 marbles to create an entire song. Aptly called the Marble Machine, Molin this week shared a new YouTube video of the mechanism in action, creating some great music that is surely going to surprise you.
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Speaking to Wired, Molin explained his reasoning behind wanting to create this machine, and just how he did it to such perfection.
"Marble machines always make music, but I was thinking maybe I can make a programmable marble machine, that doesn't make chaos but is actually controllable in the sounds it makes," the inventor said. "The marbles, you know, they behave like water. The nature of water is that it just breaks through everything. After 100,000 years it can make a hole in stone. The marbles act like that, it doesn't matter what I'm doing to try to tame them. They are just flooding every wall I'm putting up. ... I'll have to fix some escaping marble issues in order to tour."
Molin used a 3D software to design the machine, and then built it all himself. Though he started the project in 2014, and it was very difficult to see an end in sight, the final product is clearly well worth the effort, wouldn't you agree?
This week, the YouTube video has gone viral, so we're hoping that you're discovering this incredible feat of instrument construction with us right now!
Watch in amazement at this incredible instrument in action right here (via Reddit / YouTube):
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