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# Somebody Should Get This Daft Punk-Style Marble Music Contraption To The Movement Festival
- URL: https://www.dailydetroit.com/episodes/somebody-get-funky-music-contraption-movement/
- Published: 2016-03-03T19:47:23.000Z
- Updated: 2024-02-27T19:49:23.000Z
- Author: Jer Staes
- Tags: #wordpress, #Import 2024-02-25 18:12, #daily-detroit-staff

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](http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2016-03/02/marble-machine-video?ref=dailydetroit.com). “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.