This Marble Music Machine Broke My Mind

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@RianaFelblade 7 ай бұрын

He's actually making a new one, still posts updates on the new design on his channel. The old one is in a museum now, and was restored to working condition just enough to be played one more time like last year or something.

@jamesaulner8958 5 ай бұрын

Eyyy wintergatan fan too?

@John_Weiss 5 ай бұрын

Yeah, the first one was actually shaking itself apart during the filming of this video, and was actually unplayable after they got this take.

@calethos 5 ай бұрын

He spent 18 months in design and production of this machine. It's literally made of plywood and rubber bands, engineered to fit together perfectly for this proof of concept. He's working on a new design that he wants to be able to break down and set up like a regular instrument so his band can go on tour with it.

@computerdave06 5 ай бұрын

This is one of the few times the Internet being forever is a good thing, people continue to find this and see/hear it for the first time and join those of us who saw/heard it when it came out.

@alexdresden6776 5 ай бұрын

Engineering in its finest. Using the principals of the "Music Box" with the wind up chimes on a large scale to utilize the marble drop in his own sequence choice.

@DpacOP 7 ай бұрын

The sound it makes is magical

@Its_KSib 7 ай бұрын

I agree

@SonictrainkidDoesFurryStuff 24 күн бұрын

@@Its_KSib same

@Pootie_Tang 5 ай бұрын

His name is Martin Molin. I urge you to delve deep into his journey, he documented the process of making this and his future machines (at the time he struggles to finish one more, but he's on a way there). It's like a series, it's so cool, much better than "Game of Thrones", and there is a dragon too! =) Also check out music of his band, Wintergatan. Wintergatan - "sommarfågel" is a nice start =)

@anialator1000000 5 ай бұрын

If you pay attention, you can see on the big wheel is a bunch of pegs placed is a seemingly random spread. That is how he programmed the machine(s) to play the music. Its a giant wheel with a massive sheet filled with hundreds of rows of slots, and he puts pegs into them strategically. As the wheel rotates, the pegs go around in circles, and at one point on one specific degree of that 360 degree circle, there is a board they push. The pushing of that board causes a lever action to happen, opening up channels so that one marble gets released, and another one can enter the channel. So for the xylophone for instance, the peg comes from on top circling down (2:38), hits the board, which by lever action lifts the metal prongs at 3:26, letting gravity pull the marble down. So if he can get the big wheel to rotate one full rotation every 45 seconds, and he has 360 rows of pegs, then that would be 8 beats per second and 45 seconds of distinct music on repeat.

@lashedsuns4529 7 ай бұрын

Ayo! Wuddup, Send1t!? Been a while. I go back to this video at least once a year and I just did mine on Friday. That's probably why I got sent in your direction. Happy Monday!

@Send1tReacts 7 ай бұрын

Hope you have been well too!

@Nekotaku_TV 5 ай бұрын

Sweden lessgo. The amount of work to get this to work is insane.

@Ostsol 5 ай бұрын

It's inspired by the old 3d animation "Animusic: Pipe Dream." Worth looking up.

@Plague_Rat778 5 ай бұрын

The first time I saw this, my first thought was, "This reminds me of Animusic," both the actual music and the machine itself 😂

@Damariobros 4 ай бұрын

This is like if 2005 Willy Wonka became a musician and commissioned a Dr Seuss thingamabobbermadoohickeyjigger maker for a programmable wacky one man band machine

@John_Weiss 5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, the first Marble Machine kept shaking itself apart. This was the one take where the machine didn't have problems. It's a very frail instrument. Which is why, when Martin built the Marble-Machine-X, he built it like a tank. But there was just one problem: not all of the parts could be solid and immovable, which meant that if one marble caused a jam … catastrophic failure in the weakest component! He had a lucite pipe, used to direct marbles, full-out explode, and the lifting-mechanism tore itself apart due to a marble-jam. Which is why Martin's on to MM3. And he's learning to be an engineer as well as an artist, to ensure this one works.

@HesmiyuMC 5 ай бұрын

If I recall, this was multiple takes ad they couldn't get a single clean run.

@John_Weiss 5 ай бұрын

@@HesmiyuMC Well, they had to get through _at least one_ full run, because the audio doesn't sound like it's cut at any point. I thought I remembered, in one of the MMX test videos, Martin and/or Hannes saying that they did get one clean playthrough, but that the MM1 was basically unusable after that.