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.

"gaṅgā" | rings | subharmonicon | dld | disting ex | eurorack modular synthesizer

video by Elinch

"i wanted to use rings something different and wanted to work more extensively with long pads and a looper. to my surprise, the result was 3 very wide loops, which immediately reminded me of indian music. the drum loop with rings builds on it (looped at half speed)."


01) loops 01-03 /// expert sleepers disting ex looper mode / (rings sequenced by marbles / looped with dld) / fx aid
02) pad /// moog subharmonicon / doepfer trautonium formant filter / fx aid
03) drums /// expert sleepers disting ex half speed looper mode / rings sequenced by marbles / looped with dld
04) loop /// mutable instruments rings sequenced by marbles / looped with dld

recorded live with tascam dr 100.

for the best listening experience listen to the video with headphones or good speakers.


ALBUM „DIARIES“ OUT NOW AS LIMITED CASSETTE OR AS A DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP
https://elinch.bandcamp.com/album/dia...

ALBUM "IN BETWEEN PATCHES"
https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/albu...

Additional posts featuring in between patches by elinch

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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VERMEULEN VISUALS
WIC RECORDINGS

CREDITS:

Music: LudoWic

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

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rings | subharmonicon | dld | disting ex | minimal modular music | eurorack modular synthesizer

Elinch

""i wish you a peaceful, quiet festival and may the next year be brighter and friendlier. here is a small piece of minimal music for you. stay healthy :-)"

01) drums /// one loop, all sounds from rings (sequenced by marbles) / looped with 4ms dld
02) plugged sounds /// mutable instruments rings (sequenced by marbles)
03) piano /// expert sleepers disting ex (sequenced by moog subharmonicon) / fx aid
04) pads /// moog subharmonicon / doepfer trautonium formant filter / fx aid

recorded live with tascam dr 100.

NEW ALBUM „DIARIES“ OUT NOW AS LIMITED CASSETTE OR AS A DOWNLOAD ON BANDCAMP https://elinch.bandcamp.com/album/dia...

ALBUM "IN BETWEEN PATCHES" https://seilrecords.bandcamp.com/albu..."

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"

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"

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]

wellenvorm - Petrified Forest - The Final Concert Pics

You can find the performance and additional pics here.

Update: I should note the performance features the somehwat rare Trautonium synthesizer.

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 -

Synthesizer von Gestern (Synths of the Past) Vol 2, Matthias Becker.

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"Beautifully-produced second volume of Matthias Becker's authoritative 'Synthesizers of the Past' book - in German, but with so many superb illustrations that it's hardly necessary to read the text. New, unused, still sealed. The photos were taken of another copy of the book.

Too many highlights to mention all, but the book covers such absolute classic synths as the Trautonium, ARP 2500, EMS Synthi 100, E-mu Modular, Steiner-Parker Synthacon, RMI Harmonic Synthesizer, Birotron, PPG 1002, Moog Taurus and Liberation, Roland System 700, Synlab Modular, Roland SH-7, Crumar DS-2, Korg Sigma, ARP Quadra, Roland RS-505 and VP-330, Fairlight CMI, Realton Variophon, Oberhaim OB-Xa, Xpander and OB-SX, Gleeman Pentaphonic, RSF Kobol, Emulator 1, Synergy, Roland SH-101, TB-303, TR-606, MC-202, Jupiter 6, Syntec Banana, SCI Prophet T8, OSCar......... an incredible roster which would (in the beautiful condition they are in the photos) probably now be worth over half a million US dollars.

All with superb photos by Dieter Stork. Hardback, beautifully printed on very high quality paper, bound to the highest standards. A coffee-table book which is also a superb source of information. The Rolls-Royce (OK, Mercedes) of synth literature. (I should know - I produced the Ford Fiestas of the genre.) ISBN 3927954012, printed in 1995."

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TRAUTONIUM JAM - LudoWic

Published on Apr 29, 2020 ludoWic music

Trautonium (VT)
Trautoniks

See the labels below for more.

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.) ."

1938 Hammond NOVACHORD SN 105

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Some incredible pics of the inside below.

Update via Kenny in the comments worth noting: "Beautiful instrument but no where near the first synthesizer. The Trautonium was already in use and for sale long before the Hammond came out. Even the Hohner Multimonica predates the Hammond. One could say that the Hammond design was heavily inspired by these earlier synthesizers. The Hammond is an amazing instrument so there is no need for false information."

This reminded me of the 120 Years of Electronic Music site. It's a great resource for the timeline of electronic instruments.

Listing description:

"In the late 1930's, Hammond engineers went way above and beyond to create the worlds first electronic synthesizer, and built it the Hammond way ~ the best. I could ramble on all day about this device, but you're honestly better to visit this website, they've fully documented their Novachord and it's restoration.

As for my specific instrument, it's among the very earliest built (#105) and features what I believe is a factory blonde cabinet accent, which I've never seen before. I think it's original because it's so expertly installed, and wraps around the back to the amplifier compartment. The material feels like a grained vinyl (leatherette) with a canvas backing? It's been stripped off on the left side, but you get the idea. The cabinet will need refinishing as seen, but is in remarkable shape for it's age.

When I decided to power it up for the first time, I brought up the voltage on a Variac - slowly. I heard a loud popping sound and found a bad 2A3 tube, which I replaced with a good/tested one. Once up to line voltage, I was able to actually hear this thing play! Volume, vibrato, attack, and various variations of all the controls were essentially functional on the upper half of the keyboard. I didn't get a response from the lower half of the keyboard. This tells me that the basic components (pre-amp, amplifiers, speakers and motor were all functioning) There are 160 vacuum tubes to check, and about 1000 capacitors! You'll have a good and worthy project ahead of you. I do have a short video of my experimentation, happy to email or text it to you! The wiring harnesses, speakers, amplifiers, and other components appear to be in very good cosmetic condition!

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Elektronische Musik with Tape & Microsound Music Machine

Published on Dec 11, 2019

"In the early 1950s, there was a brief competition between Elektronische Musique, made exclusively from electronically generated sounds, and Musique Concréte, which focused on recorded sounds from the so-called real world. In this video we will generate and manipulate purely synthetic sounds using the Tape & Microsound Music Machine.

Karlheinz Stockhausen, Studie I: [below]
Studie II: [below]

The Morphagene Reel created and used in this video is available for download here: https://freesound.org/people/makenois..."

Karlheinz Stockhausen - Studie I

Published on Jul 9, 2013 pelodelperro

"Studie I, electronic music (1953)

The composition was created in the Cologne Studio for Electronic Musik of the NWDR between July and November 1953. In the final stages of editing, Stockhausen commemorated the birth of his first daughter, Suja, on 25 September 1953 by inserting a "serially unauthorized" 108 Hz (in a phrase attributed to Richard Toop), "one-gun salute". The world premiere took place in Cologne on 19 October 1954 in the concert series Musik der Zeit, together with Stockhausen's Studie II and works by Henri Pousseur, Karel Goeyvaerts, Herbert Eimert, and Paul Gredinger.

The work was important amongst other reasons because it was made (as were the works by Pousseur, Goeyvaerts, and Gredinger) not with the use of (electronic) instruments, like the Trautonium or Melochord, but rather out of pure sine tones. For the first time, complete compositional control was achieved, even over timbre. The ideal was to produce each sound synthetically and thus separately determined in its details: The conscious organization of music extends to the micro-acoustic sphere of the sound material itself. It is serially organized on all musical. [wikipedia.org]

Art by Michael Moon"

Karlheinz Stockhausen: Studie II (1954)

Published on Aug 19, 2012 Wellesz Theatre.

"Karlheinz Stockhausen (1928-2007): Studie II, for tape (1954)"

Subharmonic Generator A-113 , Trautonium Formant Filter A-104 , Doepfer Trautonium

Published on Oct 5, 2019 RinghausenMusic

A-113 , A-104 , A-140 , A-120 ,2 x A-110 , R2M

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

LepLoop Arpopone Specs & Details

Some details just in via LepLoop. Be sure to see previous posts for demos.

"The Arpopone AKA HARP'O'PHONE is a melody/bass line generator with a chord and rhythmic section, available in desktop and eurorack format.
It is based on analog ramp divider, similar to those used for the Multicassa which are inspired to Oskar Sala's Mixtur Trautonium, an early electronic musical instrument, each divider generates a voltage ramp starting from a master clock (internal or external) a potentiometer is used to set the number of steps and thus the division ratio with a minimum of 1 there are ten of such divider in the different sections of the instrument:

- 2 for the rhythmic section (trigger pulses 1 and 2)
- 2 for the scale generator, these have a ramp output that forms the melody line
- 6 for the audio dividers, the 2 prescalers are chained with 4 note dividers, one for bass and 3 for chords
A further divider comes into play if external clock is selected, in this case the BPM control acts as a clock divider making possible the synchronization with other instruments (at maximum speed divider=1)

Specification :

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Moog Subharmonicon Reviewed and Explained

Published on May 23, 2018 loopop

"The Subharmonicon is a lovely, interesting and different synth from Moog. Only around 100 were hand soldered and built at Moogfest's 2018 Engineering Workshop, and there's no information currently about whether it will be released commercially.

Even though availability is scarce, I decided to put together a review of this instrument, because the way it works is such a breath of fresh air when it comes to sound generation and sequencing. Also, one would hope that Moog will eventually mass produce the Subharmonicon, as they did for most, but not all past Engineer Workshop projects, like the DFAM and Werkstatt.

This review includes an interview with Steve Dunnington from Moog, who led the Subharmonicon project. Steve talks about the vintage synthesizers (Trautonium and Rhythmicon) and composition theory (Schillinger system) that inspired this synth.

So what makes the Subharmonicon special? Two main things. First, it has six (!) oscillators. These are sawtooth oscillators, a tribute to the original Trautonium. There are two main oscillators and each has two sawtooth sub oscillators, which can follow its main frequency at subharmonic intervals – divisions of anywhere between 1 and 15.

The second thing that makes it special is its sequencers. Each of the two oscillator groups has a sequencer dedicated to it. Initially, it may seem these sequencers are limited because they only have 4 steps each. However, the Subharmonicon sequencers aren't designed to just be played in a regular step-by-step fashion. Rather, their cadence is powered by up to 4 tempo sub-dividers, also based on the principle of subharmonics. This rhythmic core produces sequences far longer than 4 steps, repeating and skipping notes in very interesting and surprising ways. Each of the two sequencers can be configured to control either the pitch of its main VCO (and sub oscillators) or just modulate the subharmonic divisions – thus generating different chords on a per step basis.

In addition to new elements above the Subharmonicon contains controls we're used to seeing in Mother-32 and DFAM: a resonant low pass filter, AD envelopes for the VCA and filter, and a 32-jack patch bay with access to many of the internal controls."

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..."

Eowave Persephone Mk 2 Analog Ribbon Synthesizer

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