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

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.

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

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"

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

Trautonium DIY

Update: some related videos I found

neon lamp trautonium

YouTube via horchacha
"oskar sala is turning in his grave - trautonium using neon lamps (bulbs), amped and distorted by beam modulator tubes and discriminators - all lfos/suboctive generation by neon lights"

Trautonium I Don't Have Anymore

Here is an old video of one of several identical trautoniums I made and sold a few years ago. The guts are a 2D21 thyratron tube going into a 6C4 preamp tube.

Old Trautonium I Sold A While Back

YouTube via jerryampguy
"This is my first time testing a video upload here. I had this old video of a trautonium I sold a while back left over from when I sold it and have long since removed it from my website. Just testing out stuff for You Tube!"

Another Old Trautonium I Sold A While Back

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.

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Doepfer A-104 Trautonium Filter

via this auction

"A-104 is a fourfold formant filter as used in the Mixtur Trautonium by Oskar Sala. 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 (no voltage control). The frequency range for the filters is about 50Hz...5kHz. The filter audio inputs are very sensitive so that distortion may intentionally be used to create new sounds - if desired. The A-104 is a versatile module for sound modification. In the first place it is used for reproduction of resonances (e.g. the vocal-like effects known from the Trautonium). In combination with the subharmonic generator A-113, the Trautonium Manual A-198 and some other A-100 modules one obtains a Trautonium replica."

A Pre-Synthesizer-Era Synthesizer - The Mixtur Trautonium

flickr By jochenWolters

"More than thirty years before Bob Moog conceived of the synthesizer as we know it today, Friedrich Trautwein developed his Trautonium, a highly complex, monophonic electronic musical instrument.

The pitch is "selected" via a string that is pressed against a metal bar and, in essence, works like a ribbon controller.

Although you may not be familiar with this fascinating "pre-synth", chances are that you've already heard some of the sounds it is capable of producing: The bird sounds in Alfred Hitchcock's 1963 movie, "The Birds", were created by Trautonium virtuoso, Oscar Sala.

Jürgen Hiller has been building and repairing Trautoniums for more than twenty years. The one you see above is being custom-built for a customer and includes an unusual percussive module labeled "Schlagwerk" (German for "drum mechanism")."

See the Trautonium label below for more.

Update via Tomoroh Hidari on Facebook: "I had the pleasure to work on a replica of a mixtur trautonium built for the Technisches Museum Vienna, together with a friend. it's an amazing instrument! here's a (free download) album we did on it (and laptops) in '08: http://alien.mur.at/ujvary/jetztzeit.html"

Leploop Lumanoise V2 Desktop Synth

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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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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.

Doepfer A-126-2 Frequency Shifter and Trautonium

video upload by Vykaar Tones

"First try out of the new A-126-2 Frequency Shifter on the output of my ribbon controlled Trautonium. Signal route in to A-138n mixer is A-111 VCO2 sine output, A110 sawtooth, A110 square wave to A-163 VDIV frequency divider and A-118 white noise. Output of A-138n goes to A-104 Trautonium Formant Filter and from that to A-131 VCA controlled by pressure CV from A-198 Trautonium Ribbon Controller. The A-126-2 audio in comes from the VCA and the output goes to mixer with reverb and delays. Random CV from A-118 is occasionally added to control the pitch of the A126-2 oscillator."

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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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

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."

Doepfer Trautonium Subharmonic Generator Demo

"The Doepfer Trautonium is a modern recreation of an electronic musical instrument invented by Friedrich Trautwein in the thirties in Berlin. It features the Doepfer A113 Subharmonic Oscillator which is highlighted in this droney demo by Robert Fantinatto. Though not "classic" additive synthesis, the A113 creates up to 4 different harmonics from a square wave...you can hear them cycling in and out through the piece. Visit http://www.doepfer.de/traut/traut_e.htm for more info."

See the Trautonium label below for more.

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 "

Leploop Lumanoise V2 Desktop Analog Noise Synthesizer

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

via this auction

"Great little analog desktop drone synth controlled by light.

From the official website:

Lumanoise v2 has:

- one square oscillator, one 12bit sawtooth oscillator, and 2 trautonium like sub oscillators.

- inspired by the Oskar Sala Trautonium synth. We use one Trautonium tmaster oscillator under LDR control and 2 sub oscillator, where you can set the division frequency of the tmaster oscillator.

- oscillators pitch is controlled by a photo resistor, each oscillator has a volume pot.

- has a 12 db low pass resonant filter, the filter cut-off can be controlled by the potentiometer or the photoresistor.

Lumanoise works with voltage between 9 and 12 volt
direct current DC, central +"

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Oskar Sala - Zeilgalerie in Frankfurt, 1993

YouTube via djaiyo.

via rustyanalog Don't miss this bit of synth history.

"From christian moeller's website, www.christian-moeller.com

Sala, a pioneer of electronic music played his Trautonium, an early electronic musical instrument invented in Berlin in 1930.
For this live performance, his concert was displayed as a gigantic video projection above the urban flow. The metal façade of the Zeilgalerie was turned into a giant TV screen in the public space."
This one originally posted at 7:19 PM, 3/2. Moving on top for a bit. Don't miss this.
See the Trautonium label directly below for more.

Update via Rick Jelliffe:
"The thing is that Sala extended the Trautonium (a playing device) with his own synthesis system: subharmonic synthesis. It is a Mixturtrautonium!

This allows much more chord-like notes to be created, with four subharmonics. So while he can only play one note at a time on the lower manual, that note goes to four subharmonic generators. He can select different sets of subharmonics (/12, /13, /14 etc) with a knee controller, if necessary. Because these can be written down, it allowed him to set up patches and replay compositions much more quickly than later modular VC systems.

The subharmonic system favours some kinds of chords (dim 7s for example), which explains some aspects of his compositions.

I have made a free VST using subharmonic synthesis that is available on the WWW. Like Sala's it has a frequency shifter, reverb and some resonators, and can switch between sets of subharmonics. The Neumixturtrautonium VST is available from lots of places on the web, and it has a sound of its own.

I believe Doepfer have a subharmonic module too, as may some other people.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe"

LudoWic - QUILTY LANDSCAPES (live @ STMPD studios)

video upload by LudoWic music

"Next week, Friday April 26th, the second single QUILTY LANDSCAPES from my Trautonium album SUPER8 MEMORY will be released.
In this video I play QUILTY LANDSCAPES live @ STMPD recording studios.
Video by the great Edwin Vermeulen."

LudoWic - SUPER8 MEMORY (trautonium)

video upload by LudoWic music

"First single SUPER8 MEMORY from my upcoming album SUPER8 MEMORY.
https://wicrecordings.lnk.to/SUPER8-M...

Album release on May 10th by Wic Recordings (full trautonium record)
Mastering by the amazing Maria Triana."