Google is celebrating the 112th birthday of innovative electronic music composer and German physicist Oscar Sala on July 18 with a special Google Doodle that shows him composing music and developing new instruments.
Widely recognized for creating sound effects on a musical instrument called the mix-troughtonium, Sala electrified the television, radio and film worlds with musical pieces such as rosemary (1959) and birds (1962), Google wrote in a blog post.
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Born in Germany in 1910 to musical parents, Sala began to compose and compose songs for instruments such as the violin and piano in his teens.
“When Sala first heard of an instrument called troutonium, he was fascinated by the tonal possibilities and the technology the instrument offered. His life mission became to master troutonium and develop it further, which led to the school of physics. and inspired his study in composition,” Google said in the post.
“This new focus inspired Sala to develop his own instrument called the mix-troughtonium. With his education as a composer and an electro-engineer, he created electronic music that differentiated his style from others. separated.
Sala also composed the Quartet-Trautonium, Concert Trautonium and Volkstratonium. His forays into electronic music opened up the field of subharmonics. “With his dedication and creative energy, he became a one-man orchestra,” Post adds.
Sala received many awards for his work – he gave many interviews, met many artists and was honored in radio broadcasts and films. In 1995, he donated his original mixture—Trutonium—to the German Museum for Contemporary Technology.