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| | | creel pone (france) #creelp sala cd oskar sala / harald genzmer “electronique et stereophonie - musique spatiale” compact disc recordable - oskar sala: musique stéréo pour orchestre électronique en cinq parties
- harald genzmer: cantata pour soprano et sons électroniques (1969)
- harald genzmer: suite de danses pour instruments électroniques
| amazing early electronic instrument/tape work from these two composer/performers, with sala perhaps the better known of the two due to his innumerable contributions to film-sound design; he did all of the bird-sounds in hitchcock’s “the birds.” via the “trautonium”, dr. friedrich trautwein’s 1929 electronic instrument and sala’s “axe” (sala == trautonium / clara rockmore == theremin.)
several facets of the trautonium’s design lend to an otherworldly timbral pallette; equal/pythagorean temperaments can be disabled, allowing the performer to experiment with sliding scales and modified overtone series... plus the envelope of each individual note can be altered quite drastically in a method not even comparable to contemporary synthesizer design.
the five-part piece on the a-side is composed by sala; all sounds come via the trautonium whereas the b-side pieces feature some annoying cathy berberian-style diva-aktion and orchestration... luckily these are offset by confounding blasts of super-intricate white noise percussion and some of sala’s most timbrally dense playing.
an amazing record, certainly the best example of the trautonium’s possibilites... |
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1 x crystal-clear resealable polypropylene cd sleeve with a green / silver foil stamp affixed to the exterior
1 x double-sided six-color / one-color inkjet-printed / laser-printed hand-cut card-stock insert
1 x one-color inkjet-printed compact disc recordable in a high-density round-bottom cd sleeve
the trautonium was developed by the electrical engineer dr freidrich adolf trautwein (b würzburg 1888, germany; d düsseldorf 1956) and first exhibited in germany in 1930. the domestic version of the trautonium was manufactured and marketed by telefunken between 1932 and 1935. a number of composers wrote works for the instrument including paul hindemith who learnt to play the trautonium and produced a 'concertina for trautonium and orchestra' as well as höffer, genzmer, julius weismann and most notably oskar sala who became a virtuoso on the machine and eventually took over the development of the trautonium producing his own variations- the 'mixtur-trautonium', the 'concert-trautonium' and the 'radio - trautonium'. oskar sala has continued to work with the trautonium to the present day. trautwein also produced an 'amplified harpsichord'(1936) and 'electronic bells'(1947), after the second world war trautwein worked in paris on aviation research and then set up a school for recording engineers in düsseldorf (1950), trautwein produced his last instrument the 'elektronische monochord' in 1952.
the original trautonium had a fingerboard consisting of a resistance wire stretched over a metal rail marked with a chromatic scale and coupled to a neon tube oscillator. the performer on pressing the wire touches the rail and completes the circuit and the oscillator is amplified via a loudspeaker. the position of the finger on the wire determines the resistance controlling the frequency and therefore controls the pitch of the oscillator. the trautonium had a three octave range that could be transposed by means of a switch. an additional series of circuits can be added to control the timbre of the note by amplifying the harmonics of the fundamental note, non harmonic partials can also be added by selective filtering. this unique form of subtractive synthesis produced a tone that was distinctive and unusual when compared to the usual heterodyning valve instruments of the 1920-30's. the foot pedal of the machine controlled the overall volume. |
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