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Showing posts with label Trautonium. Show all posts

Friday, December 01, 2023

LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #11)


video upload by LudoWic music

https://www.ludowic.com

Saturday, October 14, 2023

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."

Tuesday, June 20, 2023

LudoWic - Trautonium Live (@Kunstmin Dordrecht / D-Sound)


video upload by ludoWic music

"Camera by Bas Keizer (Camera / bascreations.com)

Thanks to:
D-Sound / Kunstmin Dordrecht
Energiehuis / Machine 3
Carlo de Wijs
Ivandro Marinho
Evita de Roode
Joost Lodewijk
Max Vermeulen
Rogier Wagenaar
Willem de Kooning Academy (Spatial Design)

LudoWic is an artist and producer of electronic music. The field he works in is the transitional area of music, art and design, in which he experiments
with modern technology in combination with old vintage techniques and gear.
LudoWic was invited by D-Sound for an artist-in-residence at Theatre "Kunstmin" located in Dordrecht the Netherlands. He asked video-artist Roel Weerdenburg to join him during this residency.
Since graduating from the Utrecht School of the Arts, Roel Weerdenburg has focused on building audiovisual installations. These installations are mainly aimed at the re-use, modification and upcycling of old electronic video equipment.
Using feedback loops, noise generators, tube televisions and vintage analog synthesizers, LudoWic and Roel created a world in which they balance between control and surrender.

More LudoWic:
https://www.ludowic.com
https://wicrecordings.lnk.to/ludowic"

LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium Excercises
video uploads by LudoWic

Playlist:
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #10)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #9 / part one)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #9 / part two)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #8)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #7)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #6)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #5)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #4)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (subharmonics)
LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium + MPC2000xl
LudoWic - Trautonium Etude #2

LudoWic - Creating dark textures


video upload by ludoWic music

More LudoWic:
https://www.ludowic.com
https://wicrecordings.lnk.to/ludowic

Trautonium, Minimoog, & EMS SYNTHI & SYNTHI E. Note the SYNTHI E is a white model also seen here, not the standard orange yellow as seen in other posts. You can find additional LudoWic SYNTHI posts here. See this post on EMS founder Peter Zinovieff's passing for some history on EMS.

You can find additional posts featuring the Trautonium here. So much synth history can be found deep in the archives of the site.

This one is in via Soviet Space Child.

Tuesday, May 23, 2023

TRAUTONIUM - Handmade Miniature 1/6 scale.


video upload by Ronaldo Lopes Teixeira ROLT

Tuesday, January 31, 2023

wellenvorm - Petrified Forest - The Final Concert


video upload by wellenvorm

Featuring the Trautonium, Haken Continuum, and Radikal Technologies Accellerator.

"wellenvorm - Petrified Forest - The Final Concert
St. Markuskirche Chemnitz, 15.06.2019
https://www.wellenvorm.de

Der Versteinerte Wald, ein weltweit bekanntes
und bestauntes Naturdenkmal in Chemnitz.
In zweijähriger Arbeit entstand das Album 'Petrified Forest',
meine Hymne an das steinerne Weltwunder.

Im Januar 2017 wurde das Album erstmaligvor den Versteinerten Bäumen in Chemnitzlive aufgeführt.

Es folgten Konzerte in der St.Laurentius Kirche Leipzig,
in der Nazarethkirche in München und im Planetarium Münster.

An weiteren außergewöhnlichen Orten wurde "Petrified Forest" aufwändig inszeniert, im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Saale),
in der Maschinenhalle der Zeche Westfalen
und im Völkerschlachtdenkmal zu Leipzig.

Mit dem Abschlusskonzert in der St.Markuskirche Chemnitz,
schließt sich für mich der Kreis.

Die Petrified Forest Tour endet in meiner Heimatstadt.

- In der Stadt der Versteinerten Bäume -"

Googlish:

"wellenvorm - Petrified Forest - The Final Concert
St. Markuskirche Chemnitz, 15.06.2019
https://www.wellenvorm.de

The Petrified Forest, a world-famous
and admired Natural monument in Chemnitz.
The album 'Petrified Forest' was created in two years of work,
my hymn to the stone wonder of the world.

In January 2017 the album was performed live for the first time in front of the Petrified Trees in Chemnitz.

Concerts followed in the St. Laurentius Church in Leipzig,
in the Nazareth Church in Munich and in the Planetarium in Münster.

"Petrified Forest" was elaborately staged at other unusual locations, in the State Museum of Prehistory in Halle (Saale),
in the machine hall of the Westfalen colliery
and in the Monument to the Battle of the Nations in Leipzig.

With the final concert in the St. Mark's Church in Chemnitz,
the circle closes for me.

The Petrified Forest Tour ends in my hometown.

- In the city of Petrified Trees e-"

Wednesday, April 06, 2022

Doepfer - Trautonium System


video upload by NOISEBUG

"Available on Noisebug.net and Reverb."



via NOISEBUG Reverb

Note auction links are affiliate links.
See the site's privacy policy for more info. Inspired by the Trautonium invented by Friedrich Trautwein in the 1930's and most well known from Alfred Hitchcock's movie The Birds, this miniature version of the Trautonium gives you the full vibe of what it may have felt like to play the actual instrument back then.

The focus of the entire system is the Doepfer A-104 Trautonium Formant Filter. It is made of four parallel resonance filters, each filter can be switched to low pass or band pass or off. Frequency, resonance and level are controlled for each filter separately and are summed to the final output to create formant vowel like tones.

To give you the most true experience of the original Trautonium we added the Doepfer A-198 Ribbon Controller for expressive touch control of pitch and volume. This allows for free flowing pitch adjustments commonly found in acoustic instruments, like the cello, violin and other world stringed instruments.

The Doepfer A-115 Audio Divider gives you octave down divisions from the original pitch to add a classic organ type feel to the over sound, but once filtered through the A-104 you can start to get in the cello territory like mentioned above.

Modules included in this system

- A-198 Ribbon Controller
- A-110-2 VCO
- A-115 Audio Divider
- A-180-1 Multiple
- A-145 LFO
- A-104 Trautonium Formant Filter
- A-131 Exponential VCA
- Tendrils Cables (2 packs of 6)
- Tendrils Mutant Cables (2 cables)

Housed in a 4ms POD64X.

This system includes a 4ms 45W power brick.

Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Rare Trautonium Coming to Superbooth22



via @Superbooth_Bln

"Peter Pichler will present one of the first ever electronic musical instruments at #superbooth22 & #soopergrail - the trautonium, the original synthesizer. May 14th, Hands-On workshop at 5pm and a concert at 8pm. One of our highlights. Don’t miss this. superbooth.com/en/events/deta…"

Below are a few videos by Peter Pichler featuring the Trautonium .

You can find additional posts featuring the Trautonium here.
Peter Pichler erklärt das Trautonium auf der "Superbooth 2019" upload by Peter Pichler - Trautonium

#Digitaltag20: Peter Pichler demonstriert das Trautonium
"Peter Pichler erklärt kurz das Trautonium für den Beitrag der Städte Gera/Greiz und Weida im Rahmen des bundesweiten Digitaltags 2020 am 19.6.2019. Dieser Beitrag wurde als Teil des Zoom Live Webinars eingespielt."

Peter Pichler Trautonium Trio "Suite des Danses pour Instruments Electroniques"

video upload by

"Originally recorded via multi-track recording.
The adaptation by Peter Pichler is now live performable.

Available on the CD 'From Post War Sounds to Early Krautrock'

musicians: Peter Pichler, Jan Kahlert, Tschinge Krenn"

Improvisationen Trautonium

video upload by

"Zugabe im Theater HochX am 3.6.2017 in München. Trautonium Improvisationen. War ein tolles Konzert!!"

weitere Infos: https://www.peterpichler-trautonium.com

Monday, March 22, 2021

Lumanoise V4 Experimental Frequency Divider Oscillator Inspired by the Trautonium


Lumanoise V4_Test video by tonylight


Lumanoise V4 Eurorack_Sound video by tonylight

"Lumanoise V4 is an experimental frequency divider oscillator, inspired by Trautonium synth.
It has 4 sub harmonic generators and a 12db low pass filter, the pitch is controlled by a vactrol, and it's not v\oct. Audio from the phone.

https://lumanoise.blogspot.com/2018/09/lumanoise-v3-v4-eurorack.html"



"New Lumanoise V3 and V4 14HP eurorack version.

Cv control over cut off and oscillator frequency with cv amount control.
Lumanoise V3 have 2 SAW oscillator and a noise generator for drone noise, experimental texture. Lumanosise V4 it's based around Oscar Sala Trautonium, 4 sub oscillator, VCA cv in, for experimental chord drone."

Wednesday, February 03, 2021

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.

Friday, January 22, 2021

LudoWic - BREATH OF A SERPENT (Katana ZERO - OST) [live]


video by ludoWic music

Featuring the Trautonium.

"LudoWic performed the track BREATH OF A SERPENT live as part of the 'LudoWic Livestream - Katana ZERO Soundtrack' concert on November 28, 2020.

Warning for people with epilepsy: This video contains strobe lights.


POWERED BY:

MOHR MUSIC EINDHOVEN
VERMEULEN VISUALS
WIC RECORDINGS

CREDITS:

Music: LudoWic

Technical Support - Bram Van Zuijlen
Production & management - Rogier Wagenaar | Redwood Management
Production & management - Joost Lodewijk | Wic Recordings

Thursday, November 12, 2020

Prison Air Jam on Trautonium - Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack


ludoWic music

"Prison Air Jam on Trautonium - Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack.

Buy your ticket here: https://www.ludowic.com/ticketportal
('Pay What You Like' with a minimum of 5$ or 5€)

Livestream:
Date: November 28, 2020
Time: 22:00 CET"

Friday, November 06, 2020

Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack


ludoWic music

Opens with the Suiko ST-20. Trautonium on the right. Synthesizers.com 5U modular system.

"The list of gear keeps getting bigger and bigger :)
Rehearsing for the LudoWic Livestream Katana ZERO Soundtrack.

Buy your ticket here: https://www.ludowic.com/ticketportal
('Pay What You Like' with a minimum of 5$ or 5€)

Livestream:
Date: November 28, 2020
Time: 22:00 CET"

Monday, October 19, 2020

Trautonium Subharmonics With AJH Synth Next Phase Modules.


Ghost Money

"Improvisations using two of the rather excellent AJH Synth Next Phase modules I recently acquired. One for each manual/subharmonic generator. Lens focus leaves something to be desired but the camera is an SLR with only basic video facilities and the only angle I could record from. Not intended as a module demonstration, just exploring some of the timbral possibilities and sharing with you. For in depth demo and review see the Divkid video" [posted here]

Sunday, October 04, 2020

wellenvorm - Petrified Forest Tour - The Final Concert


wellenvorm

Note the synth pictured and featured in the beginning is the Trautonium.

wellenvorm - Petrified Forest - The Final Concert
St. Markuskirche Chemnitz, 15.06.2019
https://www.wellenvorm.de

Der Versteinerte Wald, ein weltweit bekanntes
und bestauntes Naturdenkmal in Chemnitz.
In zweijähriger Arbeit entstand das Album "Petrified Forest",
meine Hymne an das steinerne Weltwunder.

Im Januar 2017 wurde das Album erstmaligvor den Versteinerten Bäumen in Chemnitzlive aufgeführt.

Es folgten Konzerte in der St.Laurentius Kirche Leipzig,
in der Nazarethkirche in München und im Planetarium Münster.

An weiteren außergewöhnlichen Orten wurde "Petrified Forest" aufwändig inszeniert, im Landesmuseum für Vorgeschichte in Halle (Saale),
in der Maschinenhalle der Zeche Westfalen
und im Völkerschlachtdenkmal zu Leipzig.

Mit dem Abschlusskonzert in der St.Markuskirche Chemnitz,
schließt sich für mich der Kreis.

Die Petrified Forest Tour endet in meiner Heimatstadt.

- In der Stadt der Versteinerten Bäume -


Wednesday, April 29, 2020

TRAUTONIUM JAM - LudoWic


Published on Apr 29, 2020 ludoWic music

Trautonium (VT)
Trautoniks

See the labels below for more.

Sunday, March 22, 2020

The (R)evolution of Multicassa


Pictured: three iterations of the Multicassa in via leploop. The Multicassa is inspired from the Trautonium. You can find additional details here.

"The Multicassa is a full analog electronic instrument composed of tree Cassa (bass drum) generators controlled by an analog Trautonium like rhythms generator, without a microprocessor, available in desktop and euro rack format.

The term Trautonico is inspired by a vintage instrument, the Mixturtrautonium, invented by Oskar Sala musician, a student of Hindemith, which elaborate it, since the 30s on the basis of another instrument more simple, the Heimtrautonium, manufactured by Telefunken in the '20s, one of the first electronic instruments for the living room.

Early versions of Mixturtrautonium use as frequency dividers the Thyratron(a type of gas valve that could be used to build oscillators and frequency dividers), these dividers acting on the notes producing subharmonic that could be mixed (hence MIXTUR) for produce complex sounds, the same principle is used here with two differences:
- The valves are replaced by solid-state trigger circuits.

- Dividers act not to the notes but on the rhythms, by dividing a basic rhythm (clock) for a variable number (with the command Clock Divider) rhythms are then mixed 2 by 2 (Trig Mix) generating a complex poly rhythms.
- An output mixer allows you to adjust the volume of each speaker.

Each Cassa has a pitch, resonance and distortion control, the tree Cassa generators have different pitch range:
1_Low(Cassa), 2_Medium(Bongo\Tom), 3_High(rim shot\wood block).
The high channel can produce some scratch noise when you move the frequency pot, because the circuit design and the very high pitch, this is normal.
The clock can be generated internally or applied externally through jack on the left side of the unit.
The Multicassa accepts any type of clock pulse or square wave of 3-12 volts amplitude, with any polarity including the Midi clock, as long as the midi line is present only midi clock and no other messages (notes, control changes, sysex, etc.) ."

Wednesday, May 23, 2018

MoogFest 2018: Sub-Harmonicon Classroom Drone Session


Published on May 23, 2018 JAkoGreyshire

"This is my first patch with the MoogFest 2018 Sub-Harmonicon.
I just used a bit of background noise reduction to take away the noise of the large classroom we were in... Many thanks to the people at Moog music, everyone that helps make the MoogFest possible and a Mega-Ultra-Gigantic Thanks to Steve Dunnington for all his hard work. Thanks bro!

The Moog Sub-harmonicon is a combination of two electronic instruments.

A quote from the Moog Music email: "A brand-new electronic instrument inspired by the Trautonium, the Rythmicon, and the Schillinger System"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhythmicon

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trautonium

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schillinger_System

This synth is deep... It can do lots of different things.. Fast, slow, simple, and complex..."

Wednesday, March 14, 2018

New DIY Moog Synth Coming to Moogfest will be the Sub-Harmonicon


Details on this years' Moogfest synth in via Moog Music:

"Build the Sub-Harmonicon at Moogfest 2018

WANT TO BUILD AN UNRELEASED SYNTHESIZER WITH MOOG ENGINEERS?

Get the most out of Moogfest with the Engineer Pass, a special ticket that provides VIP access to the festival and the unique opportunity to work alongside Moog Music Engineers during a two-day synth-building workshop. This behind-the-scenes experience gives you the opportunity to engage Moog engineers while gaining insight into the art of electronic design.

This year’s workshop will build the Sub-Harmonicon, a brand-new electronic instrument inspired by the Trautonium, the Rhythmicon, and the Schillinger System. It is a semi-modular harmonic kaleidoscope that divides into itself until everything that is up becomes down.

With the Engineer VIP Pass, you’re delving into synthesis at the foundational level—and you come away with your own limited-edition, unreleased Moog synthesizer, hand-built by you.

Not only does it grant you exclusive access to a premium workshop, it opens all doors to other Moogfest 2018 activities.

This means:
• VIP Access to all events and exclusive areas.
• Complimentary food and beverage in select areas.
• Prioritized access to workshop registration.
• Access to a dedicated Festival Concierge who organizes your Engineer class schedule and is available for any questions you have may have.
• A custom embroidered patch patch representing the 2018 Engineer Workshop class.

The 2018 Engineer Pass is extremely limited in number and will only be available while supplies last."

You can pick up the 2018 Engineer Pass here.

Wednesday, March 22, 2017

LudoWic - A Green Painted Garden (ft. Tom Broshuis)


Published on Mar 22, 2017 ludoWic music - previous posts

[Gear spotting: Trautonium, synthesizers.com and white YuSynth DIY modulars, Ekdahl Moisturizer, Minimoog, KORS MS synths, Aka MPC 2000XL]

LudoWic - 'A Green Painted Garden' (feat. Tom Broshuis)
Stream and buy: https://LudoWic.lnk.to/AGreenPaintedG...

https://www.LudoWic.com

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Track credits:

Produced by: LudoWic
Music written and performed by: Thijs Lodewijk and Tom Broshuis
Mixed by: Jos Driessen and LudoWic at Sandlane Recording Facilities
Mastered by: Ivo Severijns for Music Matters
Recorded at: Ursulinenkapel, Tilburg

Distributed and sold by: Black Screen Records / Wic Recordings

Copyright (C)(P) 2017 Wic Recordings / Black Screen Records Published by: BMG/Talpa. All rights reserved.

All rights of the producer and owner of the work reproduced reserved.
Unauthorized copying, hiring, lending, public performances and broadcasting of this record prohibited.

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