Wintergatan's Marble Machine | Pianist Reacts
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Published 2022-12-23
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All Comments (21)
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Wintergatan exhibits mastery over both musical knowledge and mechanical engineering. He's documented his progress on the second version of this machine where it could run through 20,000 marbles without fail, and details how much of a nightmare it was just to achieve that. However, I think the more important takeaway is the blending of disciplines to create such unique results and inspire others to learn new skills.
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You should see his development of MM3 - his latest videos. He's been through a lot, but the new machine is CAD-designed, 3d printed, and tons more detailed.
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Thank you for doing a reaction to wintergaten's marble machine
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Yes, this took Martin a long time to make. He wasn't satisfied with the reliability and precision of the Marble Machine, so he spent several years building its successor, Marble Machine X, whose construction he painstakingly recorded on his YouTube channel. Still it wasn't good enough for his ultimate aim, a world tour, so now he is designing the next iteration. This is a beautiful obsession. I hope to see it in real life when Wintergartan goes on the world tour one day.
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So cool to see that since all the years, there are still reaction videos coming about the MarbleMachine
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I love that even now, people are still finding this and reacting to it. His project to make a newer version of this that can be taken on tour and play more complex music is quite a journey to follow.
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It is somehow disturbing and so cool, that there are people out there who just discover the original marble machine song NOW! :o I kind of relived my first time seeing it...
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I would suggest watching some of Wintergatan's other live or studio made music videos. A favorite of mine is Sommarfagal but honestly any of them would be epic. They play so many different instruments and switch between them so smoothly even though there are only 4 people in the band. It's really really impressive.
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You need to check "all was well", in that song he only used a music box that he made it and a "modulin" witch is an electric instrument he also made it, its a beautifull song
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One of the most interesting things I like when I'm watching Wintergatan's videos, is that I am watching someone's life's work in real time. It's being let in to watch a great mind at work and to understand the process and involvement it takes. Thank you for taking a look at his videos!
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Here is the link to Wintergatan's YouTube channel, if you want to find out more about his marvellous music machine:
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Wintergatan is an absolute master at work - knowledge, skill, talent pure genius - been following him for years and our whole family love ❤️ him to bits - hope to see him play live 😊
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He's on the third iteration of the machine. The second (MMX) wound up being a failure due to feature creep and over-engineering. MM3 is looking to come full circle using simpler mechanisms, but he's got a ways go to with prototyping before we will see any assembly occurring.
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Wintergatan himself told this was the 64th or 65th take to get it just right and he actually lost a lot of marbles
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Should check out his current progress on his 3rd design. Dude is as mechanically brilliant as he is musically talented.
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What really makes this marvel of a song so good is not just the song itself but also all the mechanical noises and and built-in foley that just creates such a wider atmospheric feel to the tune.
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Martin took so many different takes of the MM because it would constantly fail, and the fact that it operated as well as it did is insanely impressive, IDK if its still there but it was being displayed at the Speelklok Museum, and he has now begun work on a 3rd machine after his 2nd attempt got out of hand
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This video was actually pieced together by multiple takes. This machine never actually played the full song correctly. Not once.
That's why he built a new one. But the new one couldn't possibly play a full concert reliably. So he's now trying to figure out if a machine like this is actually possible in the first place -
One thing on this. From what I remember Martin saying about the Marble Machine, it was about 6 months spent originally building it but another 6 months recording and editing to get that music video. The original machine would break often during recording, marbles would fall all over the place, and other miscellaneous issues. Most of the video and audio is stitched together from the best clips. It's still an amazing work of art that I would bet has inspired thousands to work on engineering, music, or both.
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"He's not playing all the bass notes there." That's because the video is spliced. He said himself it never worked enough to play the song the whole way through so he had to splice it, and it never worked after. He is working on a 3rd version (version 2 was abandoned) that will be massive and be able to be heard in person. EDIT: there are also open string notes as you mentioned.
