Remi Gassmann is an american classical avant-garde composer, best known for his work in pioneering early electronics. He studied with Paul Hindemith at Berlin’s Musik
Hochschule, where he met fellow student Oskar Sala. Along with Oskar
Sala he conceived the score for George Balanchine’s ballet "Electronics"
in 1961, he also assisted Oskar Sala with the sound effects for Alfred
Hitchcock’s "The Birds" in 1963.
Oskar Sala (1910 - 2002)
was one of the most innovative German composers in the history of electronic
music. His unique instrument, the Mixtur-Trautonium, was first
introduced to the public in 1952 and soon received international
licenses. Its massive architecture remains so unique that no one can
reproduce the instrument nor interpret any of his compositions. Sala had been a pupil of Friedrich Trautwein, the inventor of
the Trautonium. But physicist Sala studied music with Paul Hindemith in
1930 at the Berlin conservatory and played his compositions for
Trautonium. Early on with Trautwein, he composed pieces for Trautonium
and performed them with the Berlin Philharmonic conducted by Carl
Schuricht in 1940.
From the 1940s, Sala dedicated himself to film scoring and refined numerous classics. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was unsuccessfully searching for an acoustic environment for eerie scenes in The Birds (1963) until Sala convinced him to use his Trautonium-generated sound-effects.
From the 1940s, Sala dedicated himself to film scoring and refined numerous classics. In 1960, Alfred Hitchcock was unsuccessfully searching for an acoustic environment for eerie scenes in The Birds (1963) until Sala convinced him to use his Trautonium-generated sound-effects.
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