{"id":3609,"date":"2016-03-06T15:12:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/?p=3609"},"modified":"2016-03-06T15:12:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T23:12:33","slug":"an-incredible-marble-powered-sound-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2016\/03\/06\/an-incredible-marble-powered-sound-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"An incredible, marble-powered sound machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Molin\u2019s contraption\u00a0brought a ridiculous grin to my face:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"604\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IvUU8joBb1Q?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> \u2028<\/p>\n<p>NPR writes,<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The &#8220;Marble Machine&#8221; is a musical instrument by way of a Rube Goldberg contraption, the love child of a barrel organ, a kick drum, a vibraphone and a bass \u2014 all powered by hand-cranked gears and 2,000 steel marbles. [\u2026]<\/p>\n<p>The video, beautifully filmed and edited by Hannes Knutsson, gives you a real sense of the instrument&#8217;s size and engineering complexity in all of its carved wooden parts, which Molin built after drawing his design in 3-D software \u2014 the various elements are programmable, and Molin can change keys midsong. You can see videos about the process of creating the machine on Molin&#8217;s own <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wintergatan.net\/#\/m.m.machine\">website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>[<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=IvUU8joBb1Q\">YouTube<\/a>] [Via Reza Aslan]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Martin Molin\u2019s contraption\u00a0brought a ridiculous grin to my face: \u2028 NPR writes, The &#8220;Marble Machine&#8221; is a musical instrument by way of a Rube Goldberg contraption, the love child of a barrel organ, a kick drum, a vibraphone and a bass \u2014 all powered by hand-cranked gears and 2,000 steel marbles. [\u2026] The video, beautifully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3610,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3609\/revisions\/3610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}