Martin Molin

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Martin Molin
Personal information
Born	Martin Molin (1983-01-24) 24 January 1983 (age 38)
Nationality	Swedish
Occupation	Musician
Relatives	Anders "Flanders" Molin
Website	https://wintergatan.net/
YouTube information
Channel	Wintergatan
Years active	2013–current
Subscribers	2.3M[1] (31-May-2021)
Total views	396.4M[1] (22-Sep-2021)
Associated acts	Wintergatan
Creator Awards 100,000 subscribers 1,000,000 subscribers

Martin Molin (born January 24, 1983) is a Swedish composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, inventor and self-taught engineer.^[2][3] He is a member of the folktronica and post-rock band Wintergatan, and previously a member of Detektivbyrån.^[4] He grew up at Kronoparken in Karlstad, Sweden.^[5] Since 2017 he has lived and worked in southern France, where he built a custom music studio and workshop .^[6]

Education and early career[]

Molin studied music at the Musikmakarna (Songwriters Academy) in Örnsköldsvik.^[4] In 2005, he and his brother Anders Molin were inspired to start Detektivbyrån, after he heard La Valse d'Amélie by Yann Tiersen.^[7] The group disbanded in 2010.^[8]

Wintergatan[]

In 2011 Molin, Evelina Hägglund, Marcus Sjöberg and David Zandén created the band Wintergatan.^[4] 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.^[4][9][10] After working on the machine for over 14 months,^[11] he released a music video featuring the Marble Machine in 2016, which as of December 2021 has over 190 million views on YouTube.^[12] 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.^[13]

Molin is documenting the construction process of the "MMX" on the band's YouTube channel.^[14] This at one point was called "Wintergatan Wednesdays" but lost the title when Molin experimented with new formats and release schedules. In January 2021, Molin started a new YouTube channel called "Wintergatan 2" with videos in the style of daily vlogs (as opposed to the intermittent videos on "Wintergatan") documenting the ongoing Marble Machine X build project in greater detail. A month later, Molin largely rolled the "Wintergatan 2" content back into the main Wintergatan channel.^[15]

In 2017, he presented a series Music Machine Mondays about the exhibits in the Dutch Speelklok Museum.^[16] In 2020 he planned to present a similar series about the collection of Siegfrieds Mechanisches Musikkabinett (Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet) in Germany. ^[17]This was, however, halted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As of May 2021, the series still has not recommenced.

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