You may have seen the Wintergatan’s Marble Music Machine recently, either here on my blog or elsewhere. Well, he’s since released a few “how it works” videos exploring all the various elements that went into making the machine work. My boys and I watched them over the weekend, and we stood there with slack-jawed admiration. That… machine… is… so… COOL! The how is perhaps even more interesting than the what. If you’re at all interested in inventions and gadgets, these are videos you’ll want to see:
Wintergatan, however, is a group, not just this one guy. They already have an album out, and it it’s along the same vein of quirky, inventive, eclectic music and instruments with visual components that are far from polished, and yet all the more interesting because you can see how they’re doing it. I find their work appealing on many levels. Okay, I’m on the verge of becoming a raging fan-boy.