Swedish multi-instrumentalist, composer, and inventor, Martin Molin, is a member of the folktronica and post-rock band Wintergatan. He made his first artistic ripples with the mammoth musical Marble Machine in 2016. Now, after an unsuccessful attempt in between at designing a Marble Machine that could travel on tours and form part of the Wintergatan bands stage shows, the master creator has live-streamed the entire CAD process of designing the third iteration of the machine on his YouTube channel.The one that he is now building is a Renaissance-inspired marble machine, he says, that Leonardo da Vinci would have designed. The follow-up known as MMX of the original huge marble machine made of birch ply comprising 2,000 metal balls juggling to hand-cranked operation and creating musical tunes by falling on vibraphone bars, drums, and an electric bass drew inspiration from the industrial era. But Molin believes that da Vincis mechanical drawings and material choices from the renascence period are closer inspiration to what the new Marble Machine 3 should be.Designer: WintergatanAgain, the intention with this Marble Machine 3 is to build a portable instrument capable of touring with the band. According to the video, the MM3 as it is sweetly called, is a more compact option for the publicially displayed second iteration. The new machine would use birch plywood to make the components and may feature a foot-pedal-powered Huygens weight system that would juggle the marbles to keep the drums, vibraphone bars, bass, churning out melodious tunes in harmony.Molin in his video notes that the single programming wheel on the machine will function as its brain, while the ring lift would recycle the marbles into a solitary collector. This flow of the marbles as clockwork would ensure continuous music playback. The video is pretty detailed, and if youre interested you can spend some time to note closely the complete intricacies of what the new-age marble machine could have on offer.However, at the time of writing, the concept is still evolving. What we see is of course pretty detailed and laid out with full conviction, but keeping the engineering mind and craftsmanship of Molin in mind, we cannot rule out the possibility of the Marble Machine going through many changes until it is actually live and ready to play melody at a Wintergatan stage show. One thing that is pretty apparent and should not change is the compact size of the machine which has been scaled down from 9.7 meters in the second iteration to almost 4.3 meters now for the MM3.The post Marble Machine concept inspired by Leonardo da Vinci sketches could be Wintergatans stage companion first appeared on Yanko Design.