Electrical engineer and music enthusiast [Freidrich Trautwein] was dissatisfied. He believed that the equal tempered scale of the piano limited a player’s room for expression. And so in 1930, ...

Soon Trautwein was joined by Oskar Sala who helped develop the Trautonium until his death in 2002. Sala was a German physicist, composer, and a pioneer of electronic music. In 1948 Sala further ...

The trautonium is most famous for its use in the soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds For the first time since it was invented, the rich, eerie, mournful music of the trautonium, the ...

Today’s Google Doodle honors Oskar Sala, the German musician who helped pave the way for electronic music through the creation of the Mixtur-Trautonium instrument. Oskar Sala was born on July 18, 1910 ...

Goran Bregović had a successful rock and roll career until the Balkan War in the 1990’s; much of his music since then is about the time before when Christians, Muslims and Jews peacefully co-existed.

Analog synths are fun because they combine music, which all humans seem hard-wired to enjoy in one form or another, and electronics, which… uh, this is Hackaday. If you don’t like electronics, we’re ...

The Trautonium is one of the first electronic instruments. It is famous for its sounds in the Hitchcock classic “The Birds”. Today, few people have mastered this instrument — the best-known is ...

High in the gallery of the West Australian Museum's grand Hackett Hall, musician Meg Travers is bent over an instrument that looks and sounds like it belongs in an episode of Doctor Who. The ...

'I like it, carry on', said Joseph Goebbels, after listening to the trautonium, invented in Berlin. It was used first in classical music in the early 1930s. Paul Hindemith composed pieces for it. For ...

Invented in 1929 in Germany, the trautonium was capable of creating strange and eerie sounds, used in classical music and film soundtracks, famously in Hitchcock's 'The Birds'. Show more 'I like it, ...