Oskar Sala

Electronic Virtuosity (1970) ...

German electronic music pioneer, made famous by his soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds ...  Virtuoso player and composer for the Trautonium, an early synthesiser ... He interpreted works by Paul Hindemith written for the instrument, and produced this album of his own pieces in 1970.  It was relaunched in 1994 with the title Resonanzen ...

Im leichten Marsch-Rhythmus ... 

Interludium ...

Resonanzen - Konzertante Musik Für Mixtur-Trautonium Und Elektronisches Orchester: Fugato ...

Resonanzen - Konzertante Musik Für Mixtur-Trautonium Und Elektronisches Orchester: Concertando ... 

Resonanzen - Konzertante Musik Für Mixtur-Trautonium Und Elektronisches Orchester: Ostinato ... 

The 1948 post-war Mixturtrautonium was a polyphonic version of the original Trautonium, generating sound from two AEG Thoraton tubes with a 3 ½ octave range (which could be extended with an octave switch). The instrument could also be controlled with a foot pedal that not only allowed variation in volume but also with a lateral foot movement, select three different sets of sub-harmonics. The Sub-harmonic ‘mixture’ technique basically used un-natural low frequency harmonics to modulate a sawtooth signal creating complex harmonic ‘mixtures’ which could be further coloured with noise generators, mixers, an envelope controller and a frequency shifter.

Mixturtrautonium-oskar-sala-germany-1936 ...