The 21st Century Renaissance Man
A story about music, marbles, polymaths, and creativity
5 min readApr 14, 2021
I still remember watching the original Marble Machine music video, published by Wintergatan back in 2013.
The founder of the band, Martin Molin, built this fascinating Rube-Golberg-like creation that used 2000 marbles a hand-crank to play a complete song with a wide range of instruments…