If you’re into a Daft Punk-style electronic funk and Rube Goldberg machines, this is the contraption for you. As reported in Wired, Swedish artist Martin Molin’s new marble-powered Wintergatan Marble Machine combines a vibraphone, percussion instruments, the neck of a bass guitar, and 2,000 marbles to create dance music. It’s powered by a large crank and then played live by Molin.
The video of the wood-card marble music machine is taking the internet by storm right now. And we think somehow, that machine should come to Detroit for a visit.
The Wintergatan Marble Machine took 14 months for him to construct – that’s dedication, if we ever saw it, and there’s a full “making of” set of vids on Molin’s YouTube page – and would be awesome to behold in person.
“Marble machines always make music,” Molin told Wired UK. “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.”
Considering many simple (yet revolutionary) electronic machines served as the brushes early Detroit-based artists used to paint the electronic music movement, it seems only fitting, even if it’s in an off-site or afterparty venue, this thing should come to Detroit for the Movement festival. And if we don’t get our wish, there’s at least the video up above.