For a musician, nearly anything can be used as an instrument: Garbage bins can be played like drums; rubber bands can be plucked like the strings of a bass guitar. Even your own hands can be employed ...

Lou Reed had Metal Machine Music. Musician and inventor Martin Molin has Marble Machine Music. Molin, who is a member of Swedish musical act Wintergatan, has designed a gigantic machine that is an ...

Here’s an instrument you won’t find in a high school band class. An intricate music-making machine powered by 2,000 marbles is the latest feat to hit the Internet, proving it’s possible to make simple ...

For American television viewers of the 1970s, The Magnificent Marble Machine was a gimmicky, short-lived game show centered around a giant pinball machine. The strange NBC daytime series probably owed ...

is transportation editor with 10+ years of experience who covers EVs, public transportation, and aviation. His work has appeared in The New York Daily News and City & State. The Wintergartan Marble ...

This guy certainly hasn’t lost his marbles. A video of a Swedish musician and his incredible musical instrument — made out of wood and powered by marbles — has gone viral. The video, which was ...

My favorite album of 2013 was not a metal album at all. Wintergatan’s self-titled dazzled and amazed in both its intricacy and immediacy, and to this day I still get emails from readers thanking me ...

When you look at the internet all day, it's easy to become jaded. We've seen it all, or at least a lot of it, and it's tough to find something that actually boggles the brain. This video, of a musical ...

If Rube Goldberg had a band, we now know what the musicians would likely have played. A Swedish musician has created a incredibly complex musical instrument that uses an intricate web of gears, ...

Some of life’s greatest pleasures come to us as children and never really leave. A fresh box of 64 crayons would still have the power to draw smiles from adults of a certain stripe, as would this jar ...

Lou Reed had Metal Machine Music. Musician and inventor Martin Molin has Marble Machine Music. Molin, who is a member of Swedish musical act Wintergatan, has designed a gigantic machine that is an ...

Some of life’s greatest pleasures come to us as children and never really leave. A fresh box of 64 crayons would still have the power to draw smiles from adults of a certain stripe, as would this jar ...