Oskar Sala - Mixtur-Trautonium Videos

Unfortunately no embedding on these so you'll have to watch them on YouTube:

Oskar Sala spielt auf seinem Mixtur-Trautonium
Oskar Sala - Mixtur-Trautonium - Klang und Verwendung
Oskar Sala - Portrait 1993

These in via rustyanalog. See the Trautonium and Oskar Sala labels at the bottom of this post for more.




Update via elgauchoandres in the comments:
"love all those old videos from the Trautonist Youtube channel
featuring Oskar Sala.

I think the oldest video on Youtube featuring Oskar Sala is:"

Electrische piano: Trautonium (1941)

YouTube via BeeldenGeluid | Oct 16, 2010 |

"In Den Haag wordt door Oskar Sala een demonstratie gegeven van de klanken van een nieuw elektronisch muziekinstrument, de Trautonium. De speeltafel van dit instrument is vergelijkbaar met die van een pijporgel. Het heeft twee 'manualen' die met de vingers worden bespeeld. De normale configuratie van zwarte en witte toetsen ontbreekt echter. De Duitser Zaun geeft een toelichting. Sala speelt op het instrument een stukje muziek en wordt daarbij begeleid door een pianist.
Deze video of jouw TV-favoriet op DVD bestellen?
Ga naar: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet"

Googlish:
"In The Hague by Oskar Sala, a demonstration of the sounds of a new electronic musical instrument, Trautonium. The console of this instrument is similar to that of a pipe organ. It has two 'manuals' that the fingers are played. The normal configuration of black and white keys missing. The German Zaun explains. Sala plays the instrument a piece of music and is being accompanied by a pianist.
This video or your favorite TV on DVD order?
Jump to: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet"

Peter Pichler - Mixturtrautonium - lecture & concert @SUPERBOOTH19

Published on May 17, 2019 Superbooth Official

"A voyage to the moon"

Peter Pichler is at present the only musician worldwide who is playing the Mixturtrautonium live. The instrument is Oskar Sala´s further development of Friedrich Trautwein’s Trautonium. First presented in 1930, the Trautonium is the predecessor of the synthesizer. A wider public became aware of the Mixturtrautonium through Oskar Sala´s soundtrack-work for Hitchcocks „The Birds“.

At Superbooth19 Peter Pichler played a live-score of the documentary „ A Voyage To The Moon“ from director Manfred Durniok and Oskar Sala.

In 1974 Durniok was provided with raw film material from different NASA-Moonshots and created a unique documentary with almost unknown space-filmsequences together with Oskar Sala. Sala was scoring solely with his Mixturtrautonium.

www.peterpichler-trautonium.com

latest phase of TR 505 project....... With MONOTRON!

Published on Aug 6, 2013 squidfanny·148 videos

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"Rusty old TR-505, revived from the dead for an audio experiment.
Inspired by Youtube user Oskar Schölander, this device is an experimental attempt to integrate a MONOTRON directly into a TR-505 drum machine!

How is this possible?

Using pulses from the MPU (big chip inside the 505), and an array of pulse stretchers/inverters, it is possible to trigger the Monotron and generate simple 'Computer Generated BAsslines'....

Take a look at the left side of the machine - can you see all the flashing lights? These lights represent pulses from the 505's MPU and also IC1. They are sent through diodes, to metal bolts. These bolts can then be connected to the Pulse Stretcher / Inverter modules to tweak the signal into something approximating a CV signal, which can then be fed into the Monotron - THUS TRIGGERING IT'S GATE, Pitch CV, FILTER & LFO.

I've also added Individual outputs for the TR505's drums, which can then be mixed into the Monotron's VCF...... Cool, eh?

Mods on the TR-505 include -
* ANALOG BASS DRUM (to replace the original pathetic excuse for a BD).
* Individual tuning for each drum group (courtesy of a cmos 40106).
* GATE Switches to shorten the drum sounds & give the machine more of a modern sound, suitable for faster tempo's.
* Individual Volumes
* Tone control for the snare.
* SEQUENCER GLITCH Mod, to disrupt the drum patterns by pressing buttons & switches.
* GLITCH Boltbay (not shown in demo due to annoying cat)

It's been about 5 years since I last touched this 505, and I'm ashamed to say it's just been sat in the garden shed for all this time, providing a nice home for lots of spiders....

It'll probably never quite end up finished, but it's still fun to play with as a canvas to try out experiments & test bits of DIY circuitry.
Future mods will include PULSE SHORTENERS (as well as pulse stretchers) & Some kind of interesting envelope generator. Possibly even a CMOS arpeggiator?
Monotrons sound pretty crappy compared to decent 'pro' gear, so may add a decent pre-amp / amp / tone circuit at some point too.
Basically the possibilities are endless.......

Watch this space and in another 5 years there may be a new Phase to this project :)

Thanks to Oskar Schölander for providing creative inspiration!

Oskar's original vid here -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kliTPe..."

TR-505 VCA
Published on Mar 9, 2013 Oskar Schölander·24 videos

"I have connected the Monotron output right after R72 in this schematic:
http://i.imgur.com/5zoPsaa.gif"

A Demonstration Of Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium

Published on Nov 4, 2015 Ghost Money

Playlist [descriptions below]:
A Demonstration Of Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium Formant Filters
Improvisation for modular mixtur-trautonium.
Contrary Motion Studies for Modular Mixtur-Trautonium

1. A Demonstration Of Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium Formant Filters

A demonstration of the mixtur-trautonium's formant filters. The filter was originally designed by Freidrich Trautwein as vacuum tube (or rohrentechnik) technology in 1930, at the very beginnings of subtractive synthesis.( I mistakenly referred to subharmonic synthesis in my closing remarks) The filters here are version of the design from the halbeiter, or semiconductor mixtur trautonium dating from around 1989 and were made by Trautoniks. For further information, interviews with Oskar Sala, explanations of the instrument and musical examples visit Trautonist at:

https://www.youtube.com/user/Trautonist

Also:

http://www.trautoniks.de/

http://trautonium.de/

© James Worthington 3 Nov 2015

2. Improvisation for modular mixtur-trautonium.

Published on Oct 15, 2014
An improvisation for mixtur trautonium. Timbral variations effected by voltage control of the assigned footpedals. The manuals, subharmonic generators and formant filters supplied by Trautoniks.
Other modules in the system by Doepfer, Analogue Systems and MOTM-Syntheisis technology.

3. Contrary Motion Studies for Modular Mixtur-Trautonium

Published on Oct 15, 2014
Two short improvisations for mixtur-trautonium, demonstrating possibilities for contrary motion portamento performance. Manuals, subharmonic generators and formant filters supplied by Trautoniks. Other modules in this system by Analogue Systems Doepfer and MOTM-Synthesis technology.

4. Meadow Clary

Published on Feb 11, 2016
A piece in development.

Mixtur Trautonium on Abstract Projection

Abstract Projection has a post up on the Mixtur Trautonium in the Musical Instrument Museum in Berlin. You can find the post including more images and info here. The Volkstrautonium (bottom image) is mentioned as well as an interview with Oskar Sala. via 24db in the comments of this 2006 post on Das Subharchord.






Oskar Sala - Elektronische Impressionen Nr.1 - YouTube via muza3

"www.blurfilm.wspaniali.net"
Search on Oskar for all posts and of course click on the labels below for more.

Oskar Novak Moog synthesizer demonstration

Published on Sep 28, 2014 Craig Novak

Perceptions are interesting. He states the Voyager XL "usually doesn't do much bass but it can". Hmm... That aside, enjoy the demo!

"Oskar Novak demonstrates his Moog XL and Moog Subphatty synthesizers and plays original compositions utilizing these two amazing instruments. He begins playing at 43 seconds."

Update regarding the comment on bass in the video: "It seems that I must clarify the comment in the video; although the Moog XL can obviously produce bass music, it is not as suited to that particular as a Moog Sub-Phatty since its oscillators are tuned to produce a higher volume of frequencies in the lower middle to higher frequency range (proven by spectrum analyzer), and that when I have used the XL in the studio it seems to sit better in the ears of the engineer and myself consistently when used as a melodic instrument. This same rhetoric was actually used in the video; it seems however that somehow its miniscule presence imbedded within the syntax might have been slightly confusing. If any further clarification on the comment or the explanation of its rhetoric must be provided, let me know.
Oskar"

Electronic Music Experimentation in the Films of Alfred Hitchcock

video by Reverb

"From the start, Alfred Hitchcock took a keen interest in the music in his films—and, indeed, musical motifs featured in the plotlines of some of his biggest '30s successes (Read more on Reverb). Watch along as Joe discusses the music in his films and how electronic experimentation was explored to be the sound of some iconic characters and bizarre situations."

Samuel Hoffman on Johnny Carson:


Johnny Carson Plays THEREMIN video by Peter Pringle

Trautonium:


Nieuwe elektronische piano: Het Trautonium (1941) video by Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid

Mixtur Trautonium:


Oskar Sala - Live-Konzert 1991 - Mixtur-Trautonium video by Trautonist

And a playlist of Oskar Sala performances from 1997 uploaded by Trautonist:

Oskar Sala „Gesprächskonzert" 1997 - Teil 01-10


See the labels below for additional posts on each.

Friedrich Trautwein, das Trautonium & Oskar Sala (1/2)

YouTube via MMJzzzMORPHMEN. via rustyanalog
See the video details for extensive info in German, Googlish translation here.

"Time signal: 11 August 1888: August 1888:
Geburtstag des Ingenieurs Friedrich Trautwein Birthday of the engineer Friedrich Trautwein (WDR podcast)

The musical invention of the engineer Friedrich Trautwein now enjoys cult status. Sein Trautonium von 1930 ist der Prototyp His Trautonium of 1930 is the prototype now enjoys cult status. Sein Trautonium von 1930 ist der Prototyp His Trautonium of 1930 is the prototype today's synthesizer, an electronic sound generator, the Paul Hindemith inspired and Hitchcock's birds gave ominous sounds.

Authors: Veronica Bock and Ulrich Biermann"

Friedrich Trautwein, das Trautonium & Oskar Sala (2/2)


See the Trautonium label below for more, and do not miss the recent Moogtonium post.

Oskar Sala - Elektronische Impressionen Nr.1

www.blurfilm.wspaniali.net

My Very Used Kawai R-50 (Presets)

YouTube via sebasstian33
"One of my all time favorite drum machines. I own two nicknamed Oskar & Felix. One is an R-50 the other an R-50e. I had purchased a sound chip and installed it in Oskar so he sounds a little different than a regular R-50. These machines were a major part of the early Kill Switch...Klick sound. These are the preset rhythms from the machine."

Electrische piano: Trautonium (1941)

YouTube Uploaded by BeeldenGeluid on Oct 16, 2010

"In Den Haag wordt door Oskar Sala een demonstratie gegeven van de klanken van een nieuw elektronisch muziekinstrument, de Trautonium. De speeltafel van dit instrument is vergelijkbaar met die van een pijporgel. Het heeft twee 'manualen' die met de vingers worden bespeeld. De normale configuratie van zwarte en witte toetsen ontbreekt echter. De Duitser Zaun geeft een toelichting. Sala speelt op het instrument een stukje muziek en wordt daarbij begeleid door een pianist.
Deze video of jouw TV-favoriet op DVD bestellen?
Ga naar: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet"

Googlish:
"In The Hague by Oskar Sala, a demonstration of the sounds of a new electronic musical instrument, Trautonium. The console of this instrument is similar to that of a pipe organ. It has two 'manuals' that are played with the fingers. The normal configuration of black and white keys missing. The German Zaun explains. Sala plays the instrument on a piece of music and is being accompanied by a pianist.
This video or your favorite TV on DVD order?
Jump to: http://www.beeldengeluid.nl/tvfavoriet "

New Book on Max Brand - MACHINES FOR THE OPERA. THE COMPOSER MAX BRAND

This one in via Brian Kehew:

"There is a new book on Max Brand, German composer who lived in the USA for a while. He used the Trautonium and, later, was an early Moog synthesizer customer...

It is written bilingually, in English and German"

You can find the German page on the book here, Googlish here.

See the Max Brand label for previous posts if you are not familiar with him.

via the Googlish translation:

"A contemporary of Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill Max Brand was a figure between late romanticism, futurism and outbreaks of the electronic age. The cultural breakdown by the Nazis, before which he fled in 1937 from Vienna and ended up in Rio de Janeiro, began a promising career as an opera composer to an end. In 1940 he settled in New York, where he pursued his vision of an electronic music machine for the stage. Many attempts did not lead on, one of which was an optical synthesizer with self-drawn waveforms, finally Moogtonium, a slightly ajar to the Mixturtrautonium Oskar Salas, Robert A. Moog synthesizer built. The development work on the machine dragged on far too long, so that fire could never realize his dream to have an electronic one-man band for the operatic stage. In 1975 he returned to Austria, where he lived in Langenzersdorf and in 1980 died.

As a contemporary of Arnold Schoenberg and Kurt Weill, Max Brand was a figure shaped by late romanticism, futurism, and the early electronic age. The cultural upheaval Caused by the Nazis, from splat he fled from Vienna to Rio de Janeiro in 1937, put on end to a very promising career as composer of opera. In 1940 he settled in New York, where he worked to realize his visions of an electronic music machine for the stage. There were many Attempts, Which all fell short, one of which thesis on optical synthesizer with waveforms he drew himself, and finally the Moogtonium, a synthesizer based on Oskar Sala's Mixture-Trautonium and engineered by Robert A. Moog. But development Took much too long, and fire that never able to Fulfill his dream of an electronic one-man orchestra for the opera stage. In 1975 he returned to Austria, where he lived until his death in Langenzersdorf in 1980th"

Gestrument Kinect

Published on Jun 6, 2013 Gestrument·11 videos

"Gestrument controlled by a Kinect camera! Download our free Beta software to connect your own Kinect to Gestrument at www.gestrument.com
Performances in the video by Jesper Nordin/Trio Trespassing, Oskar Landström/Jesper Nordin and TrioTrespassing/Västerås Sinfonietta conducted by Johannes Gustavsson."

Mysteries Of The trautaniks Subharmonic Generator

Mysteries Of The Subharmonic Generator 1

Published on Oct 30, 2016 Ghost Money

From the maker of the Trautonium VT.

"The first of two presentations on the subharmonic generator. A Look at the very singular 'sawtooth' wave of the mixtur-trautonium in comparison with conventional oscillators.

For a very interesting read on the history and development of electronic music in Germany you can download Instruments for New Music Sound, Technology, and Modernism, byThomas Patteson for free at:

http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=..."

Mysteries Of The Subharmonic Generator 2

Published on Oct 31, 2016 Ghost Money

"The second presentation looks at the operation and theory of the subharmonic generator.

The following table shows the differences between equal temperament and the output of the subharmonic generator in cents.

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Vintage synth featured in 1957 film "Different from You and Me."

video upload by Robotussin Vintage Synths

"The dangers of electronic music, according to a film about the menace of homosexuality from 1957 called 'Different From You and Me'. It features the Trautonium, a synthesizer from the 1930s that was created by Friedrich Trautwein and used by Oskar Sala. The film, which was called 'The Third Sex' or 'Bewildered Youth'(!) when released in the US, is about a prosperous German family whose son is lured into a seedy world of gay men, nude wrestling and avant garde electronic music by an effete friend and a licentious antique dealer.

Terrified that their son is not into women, the teen's parents induce their cleaning lady to seduce him and awaken his more 'natural' desires. This ends in the month's arrest for arranging prostitution!

While the film is based on homophobic ideas, the original version has some nuance and depicts some of its gay characters in a relatively balanced light for the time. Being gay was still a crime in Germany and elsewhere in the 1950s. However, before it could be released in West Germany censors insisted on changes, weaving in more anti-gay rhetoric, making the gay characters more criminal and removing scenes that showed gay men in positions of authority and respectability.

For me, it's remarkable only for the scenes featuring the synthesizer, but it is interesting that even then electronic music was associated with same-sex relationships, given that 20 years later the gay communities would be such a driving force behind the foundation of the electronic music scene.

I have uploaded all the scenes from this film that feature the Trautonium to my YouTube channel, which is also called Robotussin Vintage Synths."

Leploop Lumanoise V2 Desktop Synth

Note: Auction links are affiliate links for which the site may be compensated.

via this auction

"The Lumanoise v2 from Leploop Synthesizers contains one square oscillator, one 12bit sawtooth oscillator, and two trautonium-like sub oscillators. It was inspired by the Oskar Sala Trautonium instrument - the predecessor to the synthesizer- invented in the 1930's. The TMaster trautonium oscillator and it's two suboscillators are controlled by a Light Dependent Resistor. The other oscillators pitches are also controlled by Light Dependent Resistors with their volumes variable with a knob. The oscillators are then fed into a -12dB resonant low pass filter, which is controlled by another Light Dependent Resisitor. Works great with a flash light!

Features

Square, Saw, and Trautonium-style Oscillators
Light Dependent Resistor Control
Switches from High to Low frequency for each Oscillator
-12dB resonant low pass filter
Volume controls of each oscillator"

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MOOG Demo Record

Update: see this post for the audio.
via this auction
"Ultra-rare private pressing, the first promotional recording produced by Moog, given out to prospective customers to demonstrate the capabilities of their amazing products. Both sides are identical and contain a wonderful montage of Moog-sourced sound effects and short original compositions created especially for this record by Wendy Carlos, ranging widely from experimental to classical to pop to ambient soundscapes and a real treat for collectors of her work. It is narrated by Ed Stokes who explains the different types of waves and filters available, the basics of sound synthesis, and Moog innovations like voltage control. This extremely hard to find record is an awesome artifact of early electronic music history and a gem for Moog
and Wendy Carlos fans.

Wendy Carlos studied under Vladimir Ussachevsky and Otto Luening at the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, worked with Robert Moog to develop and popularize the synthesizer and pioneer its performance techniques, and scored films for Stanley Kubrick and Disney. Some additional points of reference for this synth demo record: Jean-Michel Jarre, Paul Beaver, Bernie Krause, Stereolab, Aphex Twin, Autechre, Mu-Ziq, Matmos, Dick Hyman, Raymond Scott, Bruce Haack, Pierre Henry, Tomita, Vangelis, Jean-Jacques Perrey, Gershon Kingsley, Tom Dissevelt, Ondioline, Theremin, Clara Rockmore, Arp, Donald Buchla, Chappell Recorded Music Library, De Wolfe, Montparnasse 2000, Patchwork, Piero Umiliani, Roger Roger, Cecil Leuter, DJ Premier, DJ Shadow, Invisibl Skratch Piklz, Oskar Sala, trautonium, Morton Subotnick, John Eaton, Donald Erb, Bernard Parmegiani, Mort Garson..."

NOISECOLLECTIVE Vistis Berlin

More pics at NOISECOLLECTIVE



Top: SchneidersLaden
Middle: ?
Bottom: EMS Synthi Sequencer 256

Update via elgauchoandres in the comments:
"Middle is Mixturtrautonium nach Oskar Sala.
Botton picture also show (partially) a Clavioline.
Pictures from the Musikintrumenten Museum Berlin, I think... 99%"

A few more pics added below for the archives via NOISECOLLECTIVE. Volkstrautonium added as well.

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leploop Multicassa Demo

video upload by

https://www.leploop.org

"The Multicassa is an electronic instrument composed of three cassa generators controlled by an analog trautonium like rhythm generator.

The term trautonico is inspired by a vintage instrument, the Mixturtrautonium, invented by Oskar Sala, a student of Hindemith. His research elaborated on since the 1930s was based on another, more simple instrument, the Heimtrautonium, manufactured by Telefunken in the 20s. The Heimtrautonium being one of the first electronic instruments for the living room."

Beem - Race to Digital

Published on Oct 22, 2012 by HouseOfFlogsta

The synth list:
Low Bass - Yamaha SY77
Clav type sound with the Bass - Yamaha SY77
Brass - Chroma Polaris
Pad - Yamaha SY77
Lead Brass at :30 - Akai AX-60
Voices - Yamaha SY77
Harmonica - Korg DS-8
Portamento background lead - Oberheim SEM
Claps - Simmons Digital Clap Trap

"From the LP Beem Sings With His Hands (FDLP5) Flogsta Danshall.
Video made by Oskar Westerberg http://www.eldved.se/

Video like from the late 80s, with some heavy use of Yamaha SY77 from
1990, on the bassline and lead synth sounds.
Track is taken from the 2012 album "Beem sings with his hands". More
at http://beem.se

Released on vinyl and digital by Flogsta Danshall."

This one cross posted on MATRIXSYNTH-C.

TR-505 Some Circuit Bending

Published on Apr 29, 2013 Oskar Schölander·24 videos

"Me making some random bends on the TR-505 for my upcoming bending and building project. More to come =)"

TR-505 Some key pressing

Published on Apr 29, 2013

SH-101 synched to TR-505
Published on Apr 30, 2013

"Just a test of my new circuit that converts the envelope signal from the TR-505 (the kick sound in this example) to a nice trigger output! Works perfect!"