Martin Molin

Martin Molin (born 1983) is a Swedish composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, inventor and self-taught engineer.[1][2] He is a member of the folktronica and post-rock band Wintergatan, and previously a member of Detektivbyrån.[3] He grew up at Kronoparken in Karlstad, Sweden[4] and lives in France.[5]

Martin Molin
Personal information
BornMartin Molin
1983 (age 37–38)
NationalitySwedish
OccupationMusician
RelativesAnders "Flanders" Molin
Websitehttps://wintergatan.net/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–current
Subscribers2.05M
(24-November-2020)
Total views337.9M
(24-November-2020)
Associated actsWintergatan
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Education and early career

Molin studied music at the Musikmakarna (Songwriters Academy) in Örnsköldsvik.[3] In 2005, he and his brother Anders Molin were inspired to start Detektivbyrån, after he heard La Valse d'Amélie by Yann Tiersen.[6] The group disbanded in 2010.[7]

Wintergatan

In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan.[3] 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.[3][8][9] After working on the machine for over 14 months,[10] he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which as of August 2020 has over 160 million views on YouTube.[11] He then commenced work on the "Marble Machine X", a more robust redesign of the machine with the aim of recording an album with it and taking it on a world tour.[12] Molin is documenting the construction process on the band's YouTube channel in a series called Wintergatan Wednesdays.[13]

In 2017, he presented a series Music Machine Mondays about the exhibits in the Dutch Speelklok Museum.[14] 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.[15]

On the 11th of January, 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.

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