Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
During the last two months, I've been doing digital design on the "secret" project. It's been so much fun. Generally, I think any use of teaser images should be strictly outlawed and promptly punished, but, I can't help myself sharing one anyway:
Here is the box o...
2021-11-24 09:10:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone - You did it!
Thanks to your support, the Marble Machine X is now fully funded. I now have everything i need to finish the Marble Machine X, thank you for making this possible.
If you have been a Patreon since October 1, 2021 or before, and your total support has amassed to 100 USD or more - 2021-10-01 09:24:44 +0000 UTC
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Hey all Wonderful Wintergatan Patrons, Cheers for 2021!
I have started a second youtube Channel, Wintergatan 2, where we are doing an experiment with posting simpler videos showing the day to day Marble Machine X Progress.
So far this week we have published three videos, check them out here:
2021-01-13 19:37:36 +0000 UTC
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Hey all Wintergatan Patrons,
Today we are releasing the Wintergatan Sheet Music Collection Book - a music score collection for all released Wintergatan Music. We have been working on this book for a year, I always dreamed of making something like this and now it’s finally here. ...
2020-11-11 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone, Martin here, hope you are doing great!
Next week I will be announcing that we are Licensing all Wintergatan Music and making it available for anyone to use as Video/Livestream background music on any Internet platform, YouTube included.
I just wanted to let you know first since this is really because of you, thanks to all your support that we are available to do t...
2020-10-07 12:02:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Hello, short update here: Martin is designing some last parts for the Marble Machine X and he felt he had only half a story filmed this week so he decided to film the second half and wait next week to publish a more complete video. So there will be no video today Wednesday 29th July.
Martin will present the 2020-07-29 10:10:35 +0000 UTC
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Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Chris here from Team Wintergatan. We were very happy to see that the Digital Downloads / Pay What You Want page we published last week was appreciated: one out of six downloaders decided to use the pay what you want option. Thank you everyone for using the page, we will upload new items to the page continually.
For more than two years Martin has tried on s...
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Chris here from Team Wintergatan. A few weeks back we added a Free Download / Pay What You Want section to our website: https://wintergatan.net/collections/download
We are happy to announce that we have added a lot of new items on our shelves:
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Chris here from Team Wintergatan. We are happy to announce that the track “Nattöppet” from Martin’s previous band “Detektivbyrån” is used to present Olafur Eliasson’s newest artwork Earth Speakr.
Earth Speakr is a collective artwork that invites ki...
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Chris here from Team Wintergatan. Things are moving on planet Wintergatan and we wanted to keep you updated:
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
My name is Chris Nadon from Team Wintergatan, helping Martin to make our projects come true. I want to update you all on our latest progress:
Hi all Wintergatan Patrons!
Just wanted to share a behind the scenes look at what i have on my workbench today, the 22 marble drops for the no compromise vibraphone, trying to get them ready to play a melody for Wednesday...
Thank you for your support, have a great day!
Martin
2019-11-11 19:48:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone, thanks for being here and welcome to all new Patrons!
Im having so much fun and pushing the progress on the MMX right now, today the metal parts came for the vibraphone drop solutions so i will race all i can to be able to show that next Wednesday. Today we also put out an extra video showing the finalizing of the welding and shifting the vibraphone bars. That was the proj...
Hey everyone! i have a slow repetitive task this evening first some hacksawing and later some welding, wanted to try if it makes sense to have a livestream SLOW TV style, for the Patrons and Youtube channel members. This is just a spontaneous experiment, lets see if it works!
Thanks for being here and have a great day/ Martin
Dear Wintergatan Patrons,
Today is such a great day, my long time friend and Video-Ally Hannes Knutsson is Joining Team Wintergatan full time to help me produce the videos for the Wintergatan Youtube Channel during Autumn 2019! This is entirely made possible thanks to your amazing support!
During several periods of my video making I have wor...
Hi and thank you for being here!
We are a part of Team Wintergatan.... or Elaine and Emma in our downtime :)
As you all know, Martin is extremely thankful and touched by your ongoing support.
One big concern of Martin’s is that he has never succeeded in finding a good balance between building the Marble Machine X, making videos and managing administrative things like t...
2019-08-02 09:59:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Everyone! I improvised a quick and dirty behind the scenes video for you showing a test using e-bow on the ondophone prototype 1.
As I keep repeating in the video, this is not the intended ondophone sound, just having fun with it and wanted to share with you. Thank you for being here and take care! // Martin
Hi Everyone hope you are doing great! Thanks again so much for your invaluable support for the Marble Machine X Project. We are thinking about giving the Wintergatan Patreon page a little overhaul, I want it to reflect better how thankful we are for your support.
We have a question for you:
What kinds of rewards would you love to see on the Winterga...
Hey Everyone, I just wanted to say a random thanks for all of you being here supporting this project.
I have not been focused on providing extra perks for you, the Patrons, that you are still supporting the project in the absence of extra perks is amazing to me, it shows me you are interested in the actual project. That means so much to me and the project. I hope to be able to make you...
Hey everyone,
Hope you are great!! I have been fighting with the involved programming sections of the MMX. Getting the musical timing 100% precise at the joints of the four quarter plates is driving me crazy. Since machining times are huge my normal trial and error methods just aren’t good enough, and the math and engineering skill required to actually calculate the results...
2018-12-22 07:06:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey everyone,
no video to upload today either, I am working on solving a problem and I wanted it done before finishing up the current video. Will upload as soon as I have the video ready.
I am working on getting help with the videos so the upload schedule will be more consistent, I really want to keep the steady uploads every Wednesday, really don't like to miss out like this b...
2018-11-28 11:45:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Back in the shop & Changing update Schedule
Hey everyone I'm finally back building after a long break full with the trip to the US and Olive Picking in my garden! On picture is the metal frame that will hold the connection between first and second marble ring lift lifting gear, hopefully I am done with this in time for Wednesday!
I will change these updates from being scheduled weekly ...
2018-11-26 19:27:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi everyone! There is no video from me today, just back to Europe from Alabama and Thinkercon.
Thinkercon was intense, filled with new friends and insights, on the picture im standing outside the Huntsville Space and Rocket center where the public event of Thinkercon took place. So many rockets, including full sized Saturn 5!
Before the public event we had two days of meet up with ed...
2018-11-21 09:19:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Something wonderful has happened!
You all remember that I asked for help and got close to 250 replies from engineers who wanted to help?
The last weeks I have been working intensively with about 10 of them and we have now projects for the MMX happening in, Germany (three persons), UK, Spain, Canada, New Zealand, US (three persons), Sweden,
And France (thats me).
We ar...
2018-11-12 18:29:25 +0000 UTC View Post
We reached the Goal of 800 Patrons! Amazing, thank you thank you! I want you to know that your support has a deep impact. I have just put out a form looking for a video editor and thought I should tell all of you about this, since you are the reason I have the opportunity of getting help with the videos.
If I can find a perfect match it would help me focus my time on what ...
2018-11-07 19:20:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Self Inflicted Boredom = Success
Hi Everyone, Here comes another update from me:
Every single week is exactly the same. I am making progress on the MMX. Nothing else happens :)
Haha. It is going faster forward now, but thats really nothing to write home about. So I write to you instead! (?) It is a most exciting boring everyday life. I heard an interview the other day abo...
2018-11-05 19:41:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Starting on the instruments (at last!)
Hey all, I am just taking the first proper measurements of the vibraphone plates I bought for the MMX, these are real vibraphone plates unlike the more feeble versions I used on the first machine. There are only 11 places for Vibraphone plates on the machine but I am designing holders that makes it possible to switch notes between songs, to open up for song...
2018-10-29 20:11:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Going to the US!
Hi everyone, hope you are great!
I am going to Alabama, US in November for the Thinkercon Event. I will meet so many of my Youtube Heroes there, Jimmy Diresta, who inspired my filming and editing so much, and Derek from Veritasium and Bob Clagett and so so many more. The trip is an awesome break for me to leave my workshops for some days, fly over and meet my Yout...
2018-10-22 18:57:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Stairs with long steps.
You know how it feels when you are trying hard to make progress but it feels like you are just standing still?
That’s my feeling today. The Machine is not standing still but my frustration is steadily increasing. The more stuff I finish, the more I discover is yet to be done.
Often when you are working towards a goal, lets say you want to learn to play...
2018-10-15 18:46:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Everyone,
thank you all for really thoughtful questions, appreciate it.
Emma and Elaine helped me pick out 20 of the questions too keep it somewhat readable!
But first a quick note about the picture: My new screw assortment! Model XXXL OVERKILL HAHA! All makers dream, I have every machine screw head type in every length... haha. Makes it so fun to work on the machine ...
2018-10-08 19:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post