LudoWic - Cinema Chamber (recording)

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"Show dates:
07 SEP ’25 UT Connewitz, Leipzig (DE)
04 OCT ’25 Funkhaus, Berlin (DE)
16 OCT ’25 De Vereeniging, Nijmegen (NL)
21 OCT ’25 TivoliVredenburg, Utrecht (NL)

Tickets: bio.to/LudoWic"

With the Mixtur Trautonium

LudoWic - IN/FINITE live / FULL SHOW

video upload by LudoWic music

"LudoWic - IN/FINITE live / FULL SHOW @Dolby Atmos House @TOBACCOtheater @amsterdamdanceevent

Video by Edwin Vermeulen - https://vermeulen-visuals.nl

THIS AUDIOVISUAL MULTIDIMENSIONAL EXPERIENCE WAS POWERED BY:

STMPD STUDIOS - https://www.stmpdstudios.com
DOLBY - https://www.dolby.com
CLEVER°FRANKE - https://www.cleverfranke.com
JUR - https://jur.show
ALCONS - https://www.alconsaudio.com
WIC - https://www.wic-recordings.com

More LudoWic:
https://bio.to/LudoWic
https://www.ludowic.com"

LudoWic - HORIZONTAL FALL (working on a new album...)

video upload by LudoWic music

"Making sketches for new tracks. In the coming period I will dedicate myself to making a new album. Andrei Tarkovsky’s spiritual and poetic way of making art continues to inspire me enormously. (that’s why this video shows some short footage of his films by the way). For this album I want to use Trautonium, vintage synthesizers, classical pipe organs and electro-acoustic equipment.

April 19 I have been invited by Het Concertgebouw to present my new album Tickets:
https://www.concertgebouw.nl/concerte..."

LudoWic - Recording new ideas...

video upload by LudoWic music

More LudoWic:
https://bio.to/LudoWic
https://www.ludowic.com

LudoWic - CONTINUOUS MOMENTS (live at Het Concertgebouw Amsterdam)

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https://www.ludowic.com

LudoWic - Gazing Down (trying/recording a new idea)

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More LudoWic:
https://bio.to/LudoWic
https://www.ludowic.com

Das Trautonium: Ein Musikinstrument zwischen Orgel, Synthesizer und Raketencockpit | Capriccio | BR

video upload by Bayerischer Rundfunk

"Es ist eine wilde Mischung aus Orgel, Synthesizer und Raketencockpit: Das Trautonium. Seine Erfindung vor rund hundert Jahren war eine Sensation. Heute beherrscht das Instrument weltweit nur noch ein Einziger: Der Münchner Peter Pichler."

Googlish:

"It is a wild mixture of organ, synthesizer and rocket cockpit: the Trautonium. Its invention around a hundred years ago was a sensation. Today, only one person in the world can play the instrument: Peter Pichler from Munich."

Formant arpeggios patch breakdown: a classic Falistri patch!

video upload by Frap Tools

"Arpeggios without an arpeggiator? That's no magic, just the power of sub-harmonics!

We've been doing this patch for quite some time now, but we never released a complete, step-by-step tutorial on YouTube.

By using Falistri as a frequency divider, we can obtain perfect intervals in the minor scale by sweeping the rising and falling stages. It's roughly the same principle as Oskar Sala's Mixturtrautonium!

00:00 Intro
00:18 Using Falistri as a frequency divider
05:03 Using Sapèl to sweep through the sub-frequencies"

LudoWic - Subharmonic clouds

video upload by LudoWic music

Mixtur Trautonium & EMS SYNTHI

More LudoWic:
https://bio.to/LudoWic
https://www.ludowic.com

If you are curious about the Mixtur Trautonium, in addition to previous posts here, this article is worth a look. From that article:

"The central module with the screens is one of the 'subharmonic generators' that give the Mixtur-Trautonium the 'mixture' bit of its name. The modules appear to be held in place with quick-release thumb screws, which is an interesting idea."

LudoWic - Mixtur Trautonium (excercise #11)

video upload by LudoWic music

https://www.ludowic.com

leploop Multicassa Demo

video upload by LepLoop

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."

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."

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

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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.

The Tale of The Ondioline: Music's Oldest Synthesizer?

video upload by The Lemon Master

0:00 Intro
1:21 Design
5:50 History
7:46 Rise
10:39 Downfall
12:47 Revival?
14:24 Outro

Note the first "synth" is debatable. The Telharmonium (1897), Ondes-Martenot (1928), Mixturtrautonium (1936), Novachord (1939), amongst others predated it. The Theremin, although not a keyboard instrument, but the inspiration if not the basis for Bob Moog's creations arrived in 1921. For a timeline of electronic instruments see https://120years.net, and for more synth centric, as we know them, see The First Synth to.....

For reverything Ondioline see https://ondioline.com

And related posts:

Jean Jacques Perrey & Dana Countryman - The Good Old Days

New Website Dedicated to the Ondioline

Jean-Jacques Perrey et son Ondioline (pics of my copy here)

And of course, see the Ondioline label for additional posts.

Reaktor 6 Subharmonic Synthesizer (Building a Moog Subharmonicon Knockoff) | Simon Hutchinson

video upload by Simon Hutchinson

"Building a subharmonic synthesizer in Native Instruments' Reaktor 6 Primary inspired by instruments like the Mixtur-Trautonium and Moog Subharmonicon.

Subharmonics are frequencies that are whole-number divisions of a given frequency (in contrast to harmonics, which are whole number multiples of a frequency). While harmonics naturally occur as part of the timbre of a sound, subharmonics, when introduced, sound like distinct pitches, allowing you to create chords of harmonically-related notes.

This tutorial walks you through making a set of subharmonic oscillators and envelope filter like the ones on the Moog Subharmonicon

#Synthesis #Subharmonics #reaktor6 #reaktortutorials #moogsubharmonicon #subhamonicon

0:00 What are Subharmonics?
1:12 Different Instruments for Subharmonics
1:55 Subharmonic Music Theory
2:16 Setting up an Oscillator in Reaktor
3:49 Adding a Harmonic with "Expon" and "Log"
6:40 Multiple Harmonics for an Additive Synth
8:06 Changing from Harmonics to Subharmonics
8:59 Transposing the Original to Bring up Subharmonics
10:34 Listening to the Undertone Series
11:37 Selecting the Oscillator Waveform
12:54 Subharmonic Oscillator Macro
15:26 Envelope Controls
15:46 Ladder Filter (4-Pole Low-Pass)
16:57 Envelope Filter
19:09 Closing Thoughts, Next Steps"

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.

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.


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CREDITS:

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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.) ."

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