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Martin Molin
Molin at Haldern Pop in 2016
Personal information
Born
Martin Molin

(1983-01-24) 24 January 1983 (age 41)
NationalitySwedish
OccupationMusician
Websitehttps://wintergatan.net/
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2013–current
Subscribers2.52M[1]
(14-November-2022)
Total views447.35m[1]
(14-November-2022)
Associated actsWintergatan, Detektivbyrån
100,000 subscribers
1,000,000 subscribers

Martin Molin (Swedish pronunciation: [mo'li:n], morr-LEEN; born 24 January 1983) is a Swedish composer, inventor, multi-instrumentalist, and YouTuber.

Early life

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Molin was born on 24 January 1983[citation needed] in.... After seeing a video of Jimi Hendrix aged 13, Molin decided to start playing the guitar and started his first band at 14, taking inspiration from skate punk groups. Molin spent three years applying to schools to study music before he was accepted to a course in songwriting at Musikmakarna [sv] in Örnsköldsvik. Spending two years there, [2]

Detektivbyrån - disbanded in 2010[2]

From 2011, member of four-person band Wintergatan

After three years of recording, the band had only performed once.[2]

Wintergatan released their first single and music video in the autumn of 2012. Six months later, they released their debut album, Wintergatan, and spent a period touring after that.


Sources

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Swedish newspapers:

Archive?

English:

Education and early career

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Molin playing a theremin with Detektivbyrån at Stockholm Pride in 2009

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.[4] The group disbanded in 2010.[5]

Wintergatan

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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][6][7] After working on the machine for over 14 months,[8] he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which as of October 2022 has over 218 million views on YouTube.[9] 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.[10]

Marble Machine

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Discography

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References

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  1. ^ a b "About Wintergatan". YouTube.
  2. ^ a b c Näslund, Pernilla (2013-05-06). "Elektronisk resa i Wintergatans sällskap". Örnsköldsviks Allehanda [sv] (in Swedish). Retrieved 2024-07-08.
  3. ^ a b c "In the studio: Martin Molin". Stim.se. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  4. ^ "Tunefully Yours". DAMN° Magazine. 2016-05-03. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  5. ^ "DETEKTIVBYRÅN". Progarchives.com. Retrieved 2020-02-04.
  6. ^ Hawkins, Andrew J. (2016-03-02). "Watch 2,000 marbles come together to make beautiful music". The Verge. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  7. ^ "Be Amazed By This Marvelous Music Machine, Powered By 2,000 Marbles". NPR.org. Retrieved 2020-03-06.
  8. ^ 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.
  9. ^ "Wintergatan - Marble Machine (music instrument using 2000 marbles)". YouTube. Retrieved 2020-08-26.
  10. ^ "Wintergatan Declares the Conveyor Belt Complete on its Epic Marble Machine X". Colossal. 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2020-02-04.