Wintergatan

Wintergatan
Origin Göteborg, Sweden
Genres Folktronica, experimental pop[1] post-rock[2]
Years active 2013 - present
Website www.wintergatan.net
Members Evelina Hägglund
Martin Molin
Marcus Sjöberg
David Zandén

Wintergatan (Swedish pronunciation: [²vɪntɛrˌɡɑːtan], The Milky Way) is a Swedish folktronica band from Göteborg. Martin Molin and Marcus Sjöberg previously were part of the former band Detektivbyrån.

Their debut album Wintergatan was released in 2013.[3]

Marble Machine

Between December 2014 and March 2016, the band uploaded several YouTube videos featuring Martin Molin documenting the construction of a music box which used marbles to play instruments. The machine is powered by hand, and works by raising steel marbles through the machine into multiple feeder tubes, where they are then released from height via programmable release gates, falling and striking an instrument below. All the instruments are played by striking them, and include a vibraphone, bass guitar, cymbal, and emulated kick drum, high hat and snare drum sounds using contact microphones. The music score is stored on two programmable wheels which utilise Lego Technic beams and stud connectors to trigger armatures to release the marbles. A final music video showing the machine in use was released in 2016. [4][5][6][7] The video counts more than 29 million views on YouTube as of 28th November 2016.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

  1. "Wintergatan". sputnikmusic.com. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  2. "Wintergatan". discogs.com. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
  3. "Wintergatan".
  4. "Wintergatan - Marble Machine". Youtube.
  5. "This incredible music machine is powered by 2,000 marbles". Wired. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
  6. "Brännö-bo gör succé på Youtube" (in Swedish). Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  7. "Wintergatan Marble Machine: Amazing video shows music box powered by 2,000 marbles". International Business Times. Retrieved 5 March 2016.


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