Martin Molin, a 33-year-old musician from Sweden, has created the Wintergram Marble Machine, an orchestra that is made exclusively from 2000 pieces of marble! The hand- crafted complex machine generates music through a simple crank that supports the movement of the many assemblies of marble. The instrument uses a system of wheels, belts, funnels, tracks and carved wooden parts that roll and beat against the built-in vibraphone, drum and bass to create music. The machine is named ‘Wintergram’ after the band in which Molin plays as a multi-instrumentalist, and it took 16 months to be built. You can get this fascinating music creating instrument custom-built for yourself, for all of $95,000. At present this piece of art is being displayed at the Spielklook Museum in Utrecht.
