Today’s Google Doodle honors Oskar Sala, the German musician who helped pave the way for electronic music through the creation of the Mixtur-Trautonium instrument. Oskar Sala was born on July 18, 1910 ...

Soon Trautwein was joined by Oskar Sala who helped develop the Trautonium until his death in 2002. Sala was a German physicist, composer, and a pioneer of electronic music. In 1948 Sala further ...

High in the gallery of the West Australian Museum's grand Hackett Hall, musician Meg Travers is bent over an instrument that looks and sounds like it belongs in an episode of Doctor Who. The ...

Innovative electronic music composer and physicist Oskar Sala would have celebrated his 112th birthday on Monday. The German is hailed for producing sound effects on a musical instrument called a ...

Electrical engineer and music enthusiast [Freidrich Trautwein] was dissatisfied. He believed that the equal tempered scale of the piano limited a player’s room for expression. And so in 1930, ...

"It's like an ocean noise. I can also do the flutter. It flies directly to us." "You are hearing the real Trautonium sound. And that has to do with the fact that Alfred Hitchcock made the film The ...

Oskar Sala, 91, the German composer and physicist who produced the eerie bird sound effects for Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Birds,” died of undisclosed causes Tuesday in Berlin. The bird cries were ...

Internet users hitting up Google to help with their searches on Monday will discover that the search engine's colorful logo has been adapted to shine a spotlight on musical inventor and composer Oskar ...

Goran Bregović had a successful rock and roll career until the Balkan War in the 1990’s; much of his music since then is about the time before when Christians, Muslims and Jews peacefully co-existed.

Oskar Sala, an innovative electronic music composer and physicist, is celebrated in today’s Google Doodle. He is famous for producing sound effects on a musical instrument called a mixture-trautonium, ...