{"id":929,"date":"2007-02-27T17:52:27","date_gmt":"2007-02-27T15:52:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=929"},"modified":"2007-02-15T18:10:40","modified_gmt":"2007-02-15T16:10:40","slug":"oskar-sala-and-the-trautonium","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=929","title":{"rendered":"Oskar Sala and the Trautonium"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img id=\"image930\" src=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/wp-content\/2007\/02\/trautonium.jpg\" alt=\"trautonium.jpg\" \/><br \/>\n<small>The Mixtur Trautonium at<a href=\"http:\/\/www.deutsches-museum.de\/bonn\/sammlungen\/elementares\/01\/02\/mixturtrautonium\/\"> Deutsches Museum Bonn<\/a> (image via <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bild:Mixtur_Trautonium.jpg\">wikipedia<\/a>, author: Matthias Kabel)<\/small><\/div>\n<p>Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trautonium.com\/sala.htm\">Oskar Sala<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Oskar_Sala\">Oskar Sala<\/a> was a physicist and composer and devoted his life to the development of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trautonium.com\/\">Trautonium<\/a>.<br \/>\n Like the <a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/typhoon.he.net\/~enternet\/teci\/plans\/therplns.html\">Theremin<\/a> the Trautonium is one of the most influential forefathers of modern electronic instruments. But unlike the Theremin the Trautonium <a href=\"http:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/?p=722\">rarely<\/a> made it into popular music (it might be best known for the sound effects in Hitchcock&#8217;s &#8220;the birds&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>There will be a memorial concert at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sim.spk-berlin.de\/deutsch\/veranstaltungen\/index.php\">Musikinstrumentenmuseum Berlin<\/a> on March 1st and 2nd.<br \/>\n&#8220;Subharmonische Kl\u00e4nge &#8212; Oskar Sala zum f\u00fcnften Todestag&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mixtur Trautonium at Deutsches Museum Bonn (image via wikipedia, author: Matthias Kabel) Today is the 5th anniversary of the death of Oskar Sala. Oskar Sala was a physicist and composer and devoted his life to the development of the Trautonium. Like the Theremin the Trautonium is one of the most influential forefathers of modern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.randform.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}