Wintergatan

Wintergatan ( pronunciación sueca: [ ˈvɪ̂nːtɛrˌɡɑːtan ] , "la Vía Láctea ", lit. " la Calle de Invierno" ) es un grupo sueco de folktrónica de Gotemburgo . Dos de sus miembros, Martin Molin y Marcus Sjöberg, formaron parte anteriormente de un grupo llamado Detektivbyrån .

Wintergatan lanzó su primer sencillo a finales de 2012, titulado Sommarfågel , y su álbum debut Wintergatan en 2013. ^{[ 3 ]} La banda realizó una gira por Suecia con el álbum en 2014 y 2016; Julia Jonas sustituyó a Evelina Hägglund durante algunas presentaciones de 2014. ^{[ 4 ] [ 5 ]}

Wintergatan está formado por cuatro músicos: Martin Molin, Evelina Hägglund, David Zandén y Marcus Sjöberg. Los miembros de la banda tocan diversos instrumentos, pero cada uno tiene su especialización principal. Molin se especializa en el vibráfono y en instrumentos electrónicos, que definen el sonido de Wintergatan; Hägglund se especializa en instrumentos de teclado; Zandén en el bajo ; y Sjöberg en la batería . ^{[ 6 ]}

La banda utiliza una variedad de instrumentos poco convencionales, entre ellos el Modulin, un sintetizador controlado por cinta construido a partir de módulos eurorack Doepfer a semejanza de un violín , ^{[ 7 ]} el theremin digital Moog Theremini , un arpa eléctrica , un dulcimer de martillos , una caja de música de tarjetas perforadas de fabricación propia, un proyector de diapositivas, una sierra musical y una máquina de escribir para usar como percusión.

From December 2014 to March 2016, the band uploaded several YouTube videos featuring Martin Molin documenting the construction of a music box which uses marbles to play instruments. The machine is powered by a hand-crank, and works by raising steel marbles through the machine into multiple feeder tubes, where they are then released from height via programmable release gates, each marble falling and striking a musical instrument below. Instruments played by marbles striking them include a vibraphone, bass guitar, cymbal, an emulated kick drum, hi-hat, and snare drum sounds using contact microphones. The music score is stored on two programmable wheels which utilize Lego Technic beams and stud connectors to trigger armatures to release the marbles. A final music video showing the machine in use was released in 2016, and has been viewed over 275 million times.^{[8][9][10][11]}

Ten months after the debut of the original Marble Machine, the band announced their plans to make a new marble machine for the purpose of touring. The new machine, to be called "Marble Machine X", would solve a multitude of mechanical functionality problems with the original Marble Machine. Martin Molin, the builder of the original Marble Machine, collaborated with a team of engineers and designers as well as fans for the design and build of the Marble Machine X. The original Marble Machine came back into his possession after being exhibited in Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, the Netherlands.^{[12][13][14][15][16]} Molin stopped building the MMX at the end of 2021 after realizing the design would not be robust or reliable enough to go on tour with. The first two machines have been donated to a museum for mechanical music machines in Germany called "Siegfried's Mechanical Music Cabinet" and in March 2022 he started to design a third version, with the series name being called Martin vs the Machine.^[17]

• Sitio web oficial
• Canal de Wintergatan en YouTube