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artist: Oskar Sala
album: Subharmonische Mixturen
label: Erdenklang
cat: 70962
year: 1997
genre: Avantgarde
source: Cdda
grabber: Eac
encoder: LAME 3.90.3 --Alt-Preset Standard
quality: VBRkbps / 44,1kHz / Joint-Stereo
size: 98,1 MB
link: n/a
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│tracklist.
no. time track title
01 05:29 Langsames Stuck und Rondo Fur Trautonium
02 05:10 Caprice Rubato I
03 12:35 Canon Caprice II
04 08:57 Subharmonische Mixturen III
05 04:35 Glissando Caprice IV
06 06:58 Klangfarben Caprice V
07 06:46 Caprice Agitato, Lamentoso, Furioso VI
08 07:42 Chaconne Electronique
09 12:34 Der Wurger Von Schlob Blackmoor
total time: 70:46 min
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│release notes.
Every morning Oskar Sala, born in 1910, walks to his small studio
in Charlottenburg, Berlin where he composes. Here exists the only
functioning Mixturtrautonium in the whole world, securely protected
by an alarm system. At the beginning of the 1930s Sala made it his
task to master and develop this unique instrument.
Its a long way from being a young pianist, who is forced to watch
his teacher, Paul Hindemith, being condemned and banished by the
Nazis, to being a celebrated film composer for Hitchcocks "The
Birds".
During the "Third Reich", the musical and at the same time handy
virtuoso Sala studied the instrument in detail. He worked through
long nights in the basement of the music academy improving the
Trautonium, the invention of Professor Trautwein, his professor.
Sala played it on radio and under the direction of Karl Bo"hm and
Richard Strauss. He invested 10 years of his life to master the
instrument.
Telefunken tried to bring a "Volkstrautonium" into the market as
the first electronic instrument to be produced as a series, but war
equipment production got in the way. In 1944 Sala was called to the
EAST Front. By the end of the war he had suffered rather heavy
injuries. At the beginning of the 50s Sala had further developed
his instrument into the Mixturtrautonium. Without a keyboard but
played instead with two electronic string manuals, the
Mixturtrautonium was not limited to the 12 halftones of the octave
or to tempered sound as is necessary with keyboard instruments.
This instrument offered continuous variability: pitch, tone colour,
volume, and with maximum ease and sensitiveness. Sala began a
second career as a film composer and quickly won awards and praise.
The breakthrough came with the nerve-racking electronic bird
twittering for Hitchcockæs thriller "The Birds". Oskar Sala,
world-famous inventor and pioneer, holder of several patents,
bearer of the Bundesverdienstkreuz (Federal Service Cross) and
awarded with the "Filmband in Gold" (Golden Filmtape), is one of
the most important representatives of electronic music and its most
important contemporary witness.
The new CD embraces the entire life of a musician. It contains many
wonderful electronic musical surprises. It begins immediately with
Paul Hindemithæs composition, "Slow Piece and Rondo", written for
Sala, the first piece for Trautonium Solo composed in 1935! Salaæs
own "6 Caprices for Mixturtrautonium Solo" were specially composed
for his new microelectronic Mixturtrautonium built by the
Postprofessors.
They are exceptionally virtuosic electronic sound creations with
difficult interpretational tasks. Then there is another piece, that
the composer himself describes as "wild" and gives reasons for, as
well as the soundtrack from the Edgar Wallace (?) film "The
Strangler from Blackmoor Castle", filmed in 1963.
1996 Viktor Pavel, Translated by Ieva Gaidulis
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