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Some naming on his YouTube channel changed, and the daily blogs (though not actually daily) are getting rolled back into his main channel. I added a citation where he mentions this in the video and the description.
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==Wintergatan==
==Wintergatan==
In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan.<ref name=":0" /> The group gained attention when, inspired by a visit to the [[Museum Speelklok|Speelklok Museum]], Molin built his "Marble Machine", a [[music box]] made of 3000 components that played using 2000 metal balls.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11147884/marble-machine-music-wintergartan-martin-molin|title=Watch 2,000 marbles come together to make beautiful music|last=Hawkins|first=Andrew J.|date=2016-03-02|website=The Verge|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/03/03/469027281/be-amazed-by-this-marvelous-music-machine-powered-by-2000-marbles|title=Be Amazed By This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered By 2,000 Marbles|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> After working on the machine for over 14 months,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Woollaston|first=Victoria|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/marble-machine-video|title=16 months to build, two hours to demolish: watch the Marble Machine being taken apart|date=2017-03-16|work=Wired UK|access-date=2020-03-06|issn=1357-0978}}</ref> he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which {{as of|August 2020|lc=y}} has over 160 million views on [[YouTube]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-08-26}}</ref> He then commenced work on the "Marble Machine X", or "MMX", a more robust redesign of the machine with the aim of recording an album with it and taking it on a world tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/04/marble-machine-x/|title=Wintergatan Declares the Conveyor Belt Complete on its Epic Marble Machine X|date=2019-04-30|website=Colossal|language=en|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref>
In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan.<ref name=":0" /> The group gained attention when, inspired by a visit to the [[Museum Speelklok|Speelklok Museum]], Molin built his "Marble Machine", a [[music box]] made of 3000 components that played using 2000 metal balls.<ref name=":0" /><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theverge.com/2016/3/2/11147884/marble-machine-music-wintergartan-martin-molin|title=Watch 2,000 marbles come together to make beautiful music|last=Hawkins|first=Andrew J.|date=2016-03-02|website=The Verge|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/sections/allsongs/2016/03/03/469027281/be-amazed-by-this-marvelous-music-machine-powered-by-2000-marbles|title=Be Amazed By This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered By 2,000 Marbles|website=NPR.org|language=en|access-date=2020-03-06}}</ref> After working on the machine for over 14 months,<ref>{{Cite news|last=Woollaston|first=Victoria|url=https://www.wired.co.uk/article/marble-machine-video|title=16 months to build, two hours to demolish: watch the Marble Machine being taken apart|date=2017-03-16|work=Wired UK|access-date=2020-03-06|issn=1357-0978}}</ref> he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which {{as of|August 2020|lc=y}} has over 160 million views on [[YouTube]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-08-26}}</ref> He then started work on the "Marble Machine X", or "MMX", a more robust redesign of the machine with the aim of recording an album with it and taking it on a world tour.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/04/marble-machine-x/|title=Wintergatan Declares the Conveyor Belt Complete on its Epic Marble Machine X|date=2019-04-30|website=Colossal|language=en|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref>


Molin is documenting the construction process of the "MMX" on the band's YouTube channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhz4mHoqZfjWT2gIe5uDZWEiuJs7uZWgZ|title=Wintergatan Wednesdays|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref> This at one point was called "Wintergatan Wednesdays" but lost the title as Molin experiments with new formats and release schedules. On the 11th of January 2021, Molin posted the first video to a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2". The new videos are in the style of daily vlogs (as opposed to the intermittent videos on "Wintergatan") documenting the ongoing Marble Machine X build project in greater detail. On the 22 of February 2021, Molin largely rolled the "Wintergatan 2" content back into the main Wintergatan channel.<ref>{{Citation|title=Which Marble Track Is Best?|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCrDDXTPp0s|language=en|access-date=2021-03-07}}</ref>
Molin is documenting the construction process of the "MMX" on the band's YouTube channel.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhz4mHoqZfjWT2gIe5uDZWEiuJs7uZWgZ|title=Wintergatan Wednesdays|website=YouTube|language=en|access-date=2020-02-04}}</ref> This at one point was called "Wintergatan Wednesdays" but lost the title as Molin experiments with new formats and release schedules. On the 11th of January 2021, Molin posted the first video to a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2". The new videos are in the style of daily vlogs (as opposed to the intermittent videos on "Wintergatan") documenting the ongoing Marble Machine X build project in greater detail. On the 22 of February 2021, Molin largely rolled the "Wintergatan 2" content back into the main Wintergatan channel.<ref>{{Citation|title=Which Marble Track Is Best?|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCrDDXTPp0s|language=en|access-date=2021-03-07}}</ref>

Revision as of 23:59, 20 March 2021

Martin Molin
Personal information
Born
Martin Molin

(1983-01-24) 24 January 1983 (age 41)
NationalitySwedish
OccupationMusician
RelativesAnders "Flanders" Molin
Websitehttps://wintergatan.net/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–current
Subscribers2.17M[1]
(10-February-2021)
Total views355.3M[1]
(10-February-2021)
Associated actsWintergatan
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Martin Molin (born January 24, 1983) is a Swedish composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, inventor and self-taught engineer.[2][3] He is a member of the folktronica and post-rock band Wintergatan, and previously a member of Detektivbyrån.[4] He grew up at Kronoparken in Karlstad, Sweden[5] and lives in France.[6]

Education and early career

Molin studied music at the Musikmakarna (Songwriters Academy) in Örnsköldsvik.[4] In 2005, he and his brother Anders Molin were inspired to start Detektivbyrån, after he heard La Valse d'Amélie by Yann Tiersen.[7] The group disbanded in 2010.[8]

Wintergatan

In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan.[4] The group gained attention when, inspired by a visit to the Speelklok Museum, Molin built his "Marble Machine", a music box made of 3000 components that played using 2000 metal balls.[4][9][10] After working on the machine for over 14 months,[11] he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which as of August 2020 has over 160 million views on YouTube.[12] He then started work on the "Marble Machine X", or "MMX", a more robust redesign of the machine with the aim of recording an album with it and taking it on a world tour.[13]

Molin is documenting the construction process of the "MMX" on the band's YouTube channel.[14] This at one point was called "Wintergatan Wednesdays" but lost the title as Molin experiments with new formats and release schedules. On the 11th of January 2021, Molin posted the first video to a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2". The new videos are in the style of daily vlogs (as opposed to the intermittent videos on "Wintergatan") documenting the ongoing Marble Machine X build project in greater detail. On the 22 of February 2021, Molin largely rolled the "Wintergatan 2" content back into the main Wintergatan channel.[15]

In 2017, he presented a series Music Machine Mondays about the exhibits in the Dutch Speelklok Museum.[16] In 2020 he planned to present a similar series about the collection of Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett (Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet) in Germany. This was, however, halted due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.[needs update][17]

References

  1. ^ a b "About Wintergatan". YouTube.
  2. ^ "Martin Molin tells all on his Marble Machine". Makery. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  3. ^ "#004 Martin Molin: The Guy Who Created the Wintergatan Marble Machine from Live2cre8". www.stitcher.com. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  4. ^ a b c d "In the studio: Martin Molin". Stim.se. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  5. ^ Radio, Sveriges. "Martin Molin: Kändes fruktansvärt att lägga ner Detektivbyrån - Kronologen från Musikguiden i P3". sverigesradio.se (in Swedish). Retrieved 2020-01-29.
  6. ^ "I Moved to France! - Marble Machine X #18". YouTube.
  7. ^ "Tunefully Yours". DAMN° Magazine. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  8. ^ "DETEKTIVBYRÅN". Progarchives.com. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  9. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (2016-03-02). "Watch 2,000 marbles come together to make beautiful music". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  10. ^ "Be Amazed By This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered By 2,000 Marbles". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  11. ^ Woollaston, Victoria (2017-03-16). "16 months to build, two hours to demolish: watch the Marble Machine being taken apart". Wired UK. ISSN 1357-0978. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  12. ^ "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  13. ^ "Wintergatan Declares the Conveyor Belt Complete on its Epic Marble Machine X". Colossal. 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  14. ^ "Wintergatan Wednesdays". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  15. ^ Which Marble Track Is Best?, retrieved 2021-03-07
  16. ^ "Music Machine Mondays". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  17. ^ "Self-Playing Banjo?! - Marble Machine X Inspiration". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-02-19.
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