So I was reading G+, and saw there a post by Bernd Zeimetz about some "marble machine". Which turns out to be a very cool device that is programmed to play a single tune, and it is just mesmerising to watch:

So, naturally, I click through to see if there is more music made with this machine. It turns out the machine has been on the making for a while, and the first complete song (the one embedded above) was released only a few days ago. It is obviously porn for nerds, and Wired had already posted an article about it.

So instead I found a band called like the machine: Wintergatan, which sounds pretty great. It took me a while to realise the guy who built the machine is one of the members of the band. They even have a page collecting all the videos about the machine.

After a while, and noticing the suggestions from Youtube, I realise that two of the members of Wintergatan were previously in Detektivbyrån, which is another band I love, and about which I wrote a post on this very blog, 7.5 years ago![^hipster]. So the sad news is that Detektivbyran disbanded, the good news is that this guy keeps making great music, now with insane machines.

I only discovered Detektivbyran in the first place thanks to an article the -now sadly defunct- Coilhouse Magazine.

I find this 8-year long loop that closes unexpectedly during a late-night idle browsing session pretty amusing.

[^hipster]: I keep telling my friends that I was a hipster before it was cool to do so...