For a musician, nearly anything can be used as an instrument: Garbage bins can be played like drums; rubber bands can be plucked like the strings of a bass guitar. Even your own hands can be employed ...

This is one of the coolest things you'll see this week. Be Amazed By This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered By 2,000 Marbles NPR's Rachel Martin spoke with Martin Molin, creator of the marble machine, ...

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 ...

As someone who writes about weird and awesome stuff on a pretty regular basis, I should have approximately 500 words to describe the Wintergatan Marble Machine, a music-making machine/art project made ...

My favorite album of 2013 was not a metal album at all. Wintergatan’s self-titled dazzled and amazed in both its intricacy and immediacy, and to this day I still get emails from readers thanking me ...

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For the past 14 months, Swedish band Wintergatan has been constructing a huge, elaborate machine that plays an entire song using marbles. They've just released a video that shows the song and machine ...