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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
Subscribers2.5M[1]
(1-April-2022)
Total views437.1m[1]
(1-April-2022)
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] Since 2017 he has lived and worked in southern France, where he built a custom music studio and workshop .[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 December 2021 has over 190 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 when Molin experimented with new formats and release schedules. In January 2021, Molin started a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2" with videos 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. A month later, 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.[17] This was, however, halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of May 2021, the series still has not recommenced.

In March 2, 2022, new designing process of a new Marble Machine 3 is started, livestreaming whole CAD process on his Youtube channel.

In April 23, 2022, he announced that he is moving back to Sweden for personal reasons.[18]

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.
  18. ^ "Disassembling The Marble Machine X". YouTube.
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