Mixturtrautonium
Item
- Title
- Mixturtrautonium
- Creator
- Oskar Sala
- Date
- 1952
- Place
- Berlin, Germany
- Rights Holder
- Deutsches Museum, Munich
- Inventory Number
- 2004-385
- Item sets
- Musikinstrumente
- Site pages
- The Birds
- The Birds
- Birds Overture
- Birds Overture
- A lifelong partnership
- A lifelong partnership
- Mixturtrautonium
- Mixturtrautonium
- Trautonium
- Trautonium
- The Birds
- Birds Overture
- Birds Overture
- A lifelong partnership
- A lifelong partnership
- Mixturtrautonium
- Mixturtrautonium
- Instrumente
- Trautonium
- Trautonium
- Media
Oskar Sala at work: synthesizing sounds on the Mixturtrautonium with one hand, processing the sounds through auxiliary equipment with the other
Certificate for the United States Patent No. 2740892 awarded to Oskar Sala for a ‘synchronizing system for electrical musical instruments’ on April 3, 1956.
Photo collage of Oskar Sala's studio in Berlin (not dated).
Tape snippet from Oskar Sala marked "Hitchcock Titel" (undated).
Press photo featuring Oskar Sala in front of an image of the Mixturtrautonium.
Mixturtrautonium
The subharmonic series in comparison to the overtone series, as illustrated by Oskar Sala.
Formal breakdown of the spectrogram of the title sequence in Hitchcock's The Birds (1963)
Spectrogram of the opening sounds (introduction) up until the first peak in volume and intensity (dramatic flourish) in the title sequence of Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Spectrogram of the lyrical section in the title sequence of Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).
Spectrogram of the development section in the title sequence of Hitchcock's The Birds (1963).