Marble Machine Subculture

After stumbling across the existing marble machine subculture molin set aside a couple of months to build his own music machine.

Marble machine subculture.

Molin is able to make it play bass percussion and a vibraphone using a series of levers that direct the rolling marbles where he wants them. Art james served as host and johnny gilbert was the announcer. This automation could in theory lead to gains in productivity as people are now freed up to pursue more productive goals. Molin previously told wired the project was directly inspired by the existing marble machine subculture i stumbled over the marble machine culture it s a whole subculture and was always.

9 32 inch stainless steel ball. The magnificent marble machine was an american television game show that featured a giant pinball machine as its centerpiece. 100mm x 100mm base. The program premiered on nbc on july 7 1975 at 12 00 pm et replacing the short lived game show blank check.

The marble machine is versatile. Marble machines are complicated but useless pieces of toy machinery that automate the process of playing with marbles. The 33 year old was inspired to build his machine after visiting a museum with mechanical instruments in utrecht netherlands.