Oskar Sala - Live-Konzert 1991 - Mixtur-Trautonium

Oskar Sala plays the Halbleiter-Trautonium (Mixtur-Trautonium).
KlangArt Festival - Stadthalle Osnabrück - 26.05.1991
Note: A studio-version of this piece can be heard on the CD
"Oskar Sala - Subharmonische Mixturen" (Erdenklang 1997)
under the name of "Caprice with Variations - rubato-variation with
espressivo effects".

[@hifman4581]

People are going to find this and not understand just how great it is that we have footage of this quality.

[@ajstexas]

An obnoxious and condescending pedant is going lecture and judge the proles.

[@nickoangelo9156]

Yes

[@GiovanniTancrediChan]

​@@ajstexas😂

[@BGeezy4sheezy]

Just learned about the trautonium today. What a haunting instrument!

[@johnsnitizen]

NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL ANALOG.

[@bmo4411]

I don't think it gets more analog than this.

[@sonjaglass7443]

Irgendwo im Zuschauerraum sitze ich auch rum! Vielen Dank fürs Einstellen! Weckt wunderbare Erinnerung an Oskar Sala und seine Musik!❤

Has anyone ever interviewed Oskar Sala's nextdoor neighbors to find out what it was like living next door to him? Police records of noise complaints? He obviously had a brilliant mind with an ability to remember what each and every switch, knob, other controls did on the Trautonium. Admittedly, Oskar Sala, was a very innovative sound effects musician and composer. How did he transpose his compositions to musical scores for others to read and perform? What a musical score for motion picture sound tracks like Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds", must have looked like on paper.

[@neilblanch1685]

This is just wonderful. I love that this thing exists and I actually get to hear it. I think I want one

[@simonkormendy849]

I'm truly amazed at the range of sounds Oskar Sala was able to coax out of his Mixtur Trautonium.

[@morrisgould729]

He is really one of the ORIGINAL pioneers of electronic music, decades before Moogs and Kraftwerk

[@TayTayMakesBeats]

Crazy how he makes it sound so natural and not synthetic. Like a one man orchestra.

[@greenyoutube5684]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/jZaQYqeAadiMa5Y

[@dianayz4644]

Tal vez eso buscaba. Un aparato que sonara como la orquesta completa

[@ShadeGrauenhaft]

@@dianayz4644 El Trautonio sería como un "Proto Sinte". Con el se pueden crear muchos tipos de sonidos y ruidos. Sintéticos o más Orgánicos... O ambos.

[@Vidgirl8]

the Google Doodle brought me here and I'm glad it did! I never heard of Oskar Sala until today and it seems I've missed A LOT!

[@cannibalholocaust3015]

The man who did the sound for Hitchcock on “The Birds”. No incidental music just a disturbing synth bird echo sound. Unsettling

[@angeljimenez-vip]

El pináculo de la música electrónica. Un genio adelantado a su epoco.😎😎😎

[@greenrx3744]

I'm not sure exactly why, but I found this music strangely touching. Thank you for sharing. Google brought me here.

[@TheAnnaFisher]

Happy heavenly 112th birthday today Oskar Sala!

[@Trautonist]

Revelation: Subharmonic Generator. By electronic devision it produces four different subtones (= chord) from a single master tone, thus generating an eight-tone chord on both manuals. The subharmonic chord (basically minor scale) can be varied by its mutable frequency ratios, stored into three different presets and selected by foot-pedal during recitation. These one-finger subharmonic chords can sound in every pitch, even as glissandos, without changing their intervals.

[@juergens4169]

I had the honour to meet Mr Sala in the early 90tees, when he presented it near to our university in NRW. I had an intensive talk to him and the possibilities of electronical music, MIDI and that all. It is so impressive what this instrument can do! The sounds were superb and still overcame most electronic synthesizers of that time! First some years later in the mid of the 90tees, VA-Synthesis gave as similar opportunities.

[@Dr.Love.Music.]

ich hatte Ihn zur Sonnenfinsternis 99 in Kalsruhe gesehen... Alfred Hitchcock hatte zum normalen Drehbuch ein Musikdrebuch geschrieben. Wenn es dich interessiert, Ammer & Console haben dieses vertont und gehen im Vorwort auf Trautonium ein und dann schritt für schritt durch das Drehbuch.. hören Sie hier ammerconsole.bandcamp.com/album/die-v-gel-nach-oskar-sala

[@lvd357]

He plays it in such a cool classical way. So musical.

[@channelnameanddescription8999]

My computer music professor showed this video in class today, pretty cool dude. gonna try and recreate this sound someway somehow.

[@soundtaxiproject]

... met him before his concert. We talked about Paul Hindemith, Edgar Wallace, Alfred Hitchcock, the war, his problems and friends, who helped him constructing the trautonium. - He asked me, if i want to learn this instrument. Who wonders: I denied. - After Gerhard Schröder's KlangArt Festival laudation, who became later on Bundeskanzler of Germany, no more more sponsors for this congress could be found.

[@DarksoldierX2]

This guy literally did Electronica and math rock decades before anyone knew what those genres were.

[@GanjaMan1990high]

Yeah I'm jealous of anyone that learned anything from him back in those days. Wouldn't shock me that there are probably great composers practiced a similar style early early on from him like house artist, before house/edm/electro/synth sound was a thing . Rad 🤙🏾🤘🏾💯

[@dianayz4644]

A Century before

[@rikunevalainen8154]

Wizard of Oz: "I have nasty organ" Sala: hold my trautonium.....

[@VanguardSound7]

WOW! So this is the instrument that gave birth to all the music we hear today. I would not do what I do as a musician had not it been for Pioneers such as Friedrich Trautwein and Oskar Sala. Respect due!

[@MisterCarrington]

Delicious. Very under rated composer & synth creator. Thanks for share!

[@Soundole]

Very cool. Lovely mixture of progressive synth effects with traditional composition. I think it works.

[@musicinclusive4160]

Appreciate you sharing these videos. History that modern synth users aren't often aware of! Great stuff.

[@rhproger]

This is way better than any digital synth!!!

[@MelloCello7]

The expression interface is also far more direct than any modern analog synth you find today :o

[@mikeexits]

@@MelloCello7 Well... With MPE you can get some pretty damn expressive setups going. And for much cheaper (both in terms of money and space) than something like what's shown in this video. Both have their own unique strengths and weaknesses.

[@juergens4169]

Another hint for those who do not know about this instrument: It has been used to generate the birds' screams in Hitchcocks "the birds". kzbin.info/www/bejne/i6msf3ytfd2FbtU The inventors Oskar Sala, Friedrich Trauwein and the Composer Paul Hindemith have to be announced when it comes to the question who really invented electronical music and the point of time was 1930. This was even before Konrad Zuse developed the first computer!

[@RyanParkerTV]

What a lovely, whimsical, uncanny machine man

[@-RandomBiz-]

The ebb and flow of that last chord is brilliant.

[@Urdatorn]

Indeed! I read this just as it came on.

[@theladyisatramp520]

Wahnsinn... noch nie gehört! Da braucht's gar kein Mischpult... Nur die Multitasking-Fähigkeit! Tolles 'Instrument'...

[@reallyrandomdude23]

I want to cry this is so cool

[@securityrobot]

Such a catchy tune.

[@ohmtronseedling]

wow, that was neat! just learned of the Trautonium this evening, within the last 15 minutes. fascinating instrument and this performance was brilliant. excellent post.

[@chamberpaint]

Harry Partch's younger brother....fabulous. I like the comment "A song made of air"...so true!

[@digitalmaestrorich]

Get a moog, ondes martenot and theremin...wow what a quartet concert that would be!

[@oliviermalhomme9923]

a Moog ? Who wants these modern lazy machines...

[@edgeeffect]

Moog?!?! That's a bit "modern", isn't it? ;) It's alright though, I've got a fleet of trucks outside with my Telharmonium in them.

[@franckmarronier130]

Cmon man...

[@BetamaxFlippy]

Basically Jean-Jacques Perrey's setup

[@DamienDrake]

Don't forget the Novachord!

[@MediaWest]

why hasnt anyone come out with a midi controller that could do this. yamaha tried, so did moog. needs to be metal just like to control voltage.... amazing.

[@whoisthisfellow]

doepfer made some, but they aren't sold anymore unfortunately.

[@jameswest8280]

I've got to get me one of these. Truly the best synthetic sound I've ever heard.

[@deanhankio6304]

it has something of "ondes martenot" mixed with oscillators and stuff. very cool. and so weird to see an old man being so futuristic.

[@marionetteproject508]

yeah, since he was banned in nazi germany because of his music, that's why he's playing his music freely, then passed.

[@cameronlovelace4248]

According to Wikipedia, he was a German soldier injured on the Eastern Front.

[@XYtoTheDoubleG]

the ending Melody truly blew my mind! such precision and grace!

[@mayi77tupac]

Que magnífica interpretación 🍄🤗🌵👏👏👏

[@markkirschenmann3925]

What a great post, thanks so much!

[@palipalik2011]

This is the craziest music I've ever listened to!!

[@Girish_ji]

Happy birthday oscar sala.⭐

[@Lea_Der_777]

Oh my God.......... Even today, in the times of modulars with A LOT OF diferrent modules, sounds and technologies --- this old video just exploded my brain.... ABSOLUTELY GENIUS! ABSOLUTELY!!! JUST IDEALLY - ALL, composition, playing, thoughts, and ESPECIALLY SOUNDS!.... Now the sound of all modern analog "synths" like Chinese toys for little children..... This is just a GIANT OF REAL ANALOG SOUND!... SO BEAUTIFUL!......... GREAT GENIUS ...

[@ElPayasete]

MARAVILLOSO!!!! Hacía mucho tiempo que no escuchaba sonidos tan increíbles!!!! Una absoluta maravilla!

[@rudigerfrank6306]

So eine seltsame Klangsprache und so ein ausdrucksstarkes Spiel!

[@patrickferlet9086]

bravo Monsieur Sala , fantastique !

[@shot944]

Das erinnert mich so spontan an die Musik aus Ausbildungsfilmen aus meiner Lehr- und Bundeswehrzeit, die damals schon veraltet waren

[@rudigerfrank6306]

So faszinierend ich Oskar Salas Mitwirkung an der klanglichen Gestaltung von Industriefirmen finde, so sehr habe ich mich immer schon gewundert über den Umstand, dass man es für nötig befunden hat, geräusche, die durch Produktions Abläufe erzeugt werden, auch noch verstärken zu müssen durch entsprechende Klanggestaltung!

[@Trautonist]

No official or commercially available video live performances of Sala available on the CD or DVD market.

[@Jannacek]

one of my favourite videos of whole youtube

[@bertvdlast]

Next month i am going to see a movie with live Trautonium music by Peter Pichler.

[@grufti808]

wich movie?

[@madtoniocasu]

Great Man and Great Macchine!!!!!

[@alienorbiter]

That last part sounds like a full orchestra...

[@DamienDrake]

It sounds like electronic strings (which makes sense).

[@Domoterapeuta]

LOVE IT!

[@fedesartorio]

Wow this machine (and player mostly!) is insane!

[@julimekanika]

Uno de los padres de la música electrónica y contemporánea. GRANDE!!!

[@RileyRClazerkitsune]

Im not sure why but this music just unsettles me so much, it's what a automatons last dying breaths would sound like.

[@iamsushi1056]

It uses a frequency shifter inside the delay, so the echoes slowly get weirder and weirder and don’t follow the normal harmonics your ear is used to

[@theFminusclub]

From helldivers?

[@knownunknown1959]

Genius creativity x100...

[@elpayaseteetesayap1199]

Absolutamente MARAVILLOSO! Caprice Rubato es una obra esquisita. Deliciosa. Increíble, Oskar Sala! Thanks for sharing!

[@mec007]

pionero de la electronica

[@henryheideman2100]

Insane

[@juanc.fuentes9168]

Estoy estupefacto .___. Impresionante!

[@hahawhatever7776]

now this is cool!🤩

[@Trautonist]

@EduardoGomezP Caprice with Variations (Canon over 3 octaves / Variations on themes from Caprice rubato)

[@away69]

I was waiting for the beat to drop, damn it Oskar...

[@tonystephen6312]

Was waiting for someone to come out with that comment.lol..

[@simonkormendy849]

All the sounds you hear are produced by analog electronic oscillators and filters.

[@bv3078]

So does a minimoog. Though the first trautonium used valves as oscillators. Doepfer still makes the main oscillators/harmonizers.

[@simonkormendy849]

@@bv3078 Agreed, my take on the Mixtur Trautonium is that it is a Synthesizer, but it's an unusually designed Synthesizer.

[@MoonDoogas]

Sublime, thanks for posting

[@fernandoverzini3711]

Meraviglioso Maestro. Un saluto da iscritto 600 Italia.

[@jona_KardCiv1]

This is amazing

[@bbs1369]

So expressive. Lovely..

[@SeeEdRun]

2:53 is the beginning of the song "Ghosts" by The Presets.

[@ejectproject]

genius!

[@moforibalait]

marvelous instrument i'd like to have one to PLAY with

[@2148aa]

Happy 112th birthday Oskar

[@JamesHowardYoung]

This is unbelievable

[@adolfoarevalo3107]

Que impresionante, tiene una variedad fantástica de acordes.

[@thePOLYGIRL]

großartig, herrlich, ... unbeschreiblich einzigartig !

[@joseroldan1389]

Fascinanting., Awesome

[@ElectronicIngDiaz0786]

Excellent.

[@Combinia]

that guy is a one man orchestra!

[@godwhyisthistaken]

Simply Awesome

[@kombabakh]

SUPER!!!

[@glhx2112]

Wow, pretty cool.

[@mariocalderonlacayo1518]

Aphex's Twin grandpa

[@perlazywicz4684]

The Geat DJ FATHER. The First in the World.

[@ShadeGrauenhaft]

He was not a DJ, he was a Trautonist, Synthesist

[@kronosgean886]

gracias a este señor la electronica existe XD

[@Ruan_w47]

Sim kkkk

[@kronosgean886]

@@Ruan_w47 gaaa

[@josemanuelcastillouribe6510]

Es intrigante, te lleva aun lugar desconocido en la mente, como algún mundo visitato por Rick y Morty o un planeta de Midnight Gospel.

[@fotosonic]

une vision finalement très conservatrice de la musique!

[@commanderkruge]

Sehr schön! :)

[@kellih1479]

2:18 to 3:08 is my favorite part

[@dapowerfulmastermind]

now i want a trautonium!

[@aleksidyll]

love it!!

[@wanderingyoutube6252]

Legend.

[@liammcooper]

This is amazing. Reminds me of an Ondes Martenot

[@rolfingerbier]

Awesome!

[@aaronlyttle775]

Fitting video for his 112th birthday

[@nixboaski]

so good

[@RicardoDiLago]

this is amazing!

[@tomdecuca3627]

I am not sure why this composer and this instrument have never been given the credit due - these instruments were created and used since the 30s right? What would 60s television done without the trautonium ?

[@FUNKINETIK]

This is the first time I have heard of the Trautonium and Salha etc.. An amazing sound.

[@EndyMX]

Google just did, today. :)

[@DaveBessell]

Wonderful

[@yeniferlopez7692]

Que fantasia :00