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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

The trautonium is most famous for its use in the soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds For the first time since it was invented, the rich, eerie, mournful music of the trautonium, 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 ...

Google doodle commemorated the 112th birthday of Oskar Sala, the innovative electronic music composer and German physicist. Oskar Sala is well know for developing and playing the mixture-trautonium, ...

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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, ...

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Oskar Sala was an innovative composer and physicist – classically trained, and later a pioneer in the world of electronic music... Today’s Google Doodle marks what would have been the 112th birthday ...