Freak-Sounds – Musik abseits der Norm

Freak Sounds – Music Beyond the Norm:

Peter Pichler Plays the Trautonium

Hitchcock’s “The Birds” made the Trautonium famous. The crows’ screeches, generated electronically, made the horror seem even more eerie. Invented in 1930, the Trautonium is one of the very first electronic musical instruments—the grandmother of the synthesizer. After falling into obscurity, Peter Pichler has now given it a comeback. It appears in the soundtrack by Oscar winner Volker Bertelmann for the new Netflix film “Ballad of a Small Player” by Eduard Berger. In his new book “Freak-Sounds — Music Beyond the Norm,” music journalist Christoph Wagner has dedicated a chapter to this electronic marvel and is now presenting the Trautonium alongside Peter Pichler in a multimedia concert that spans the history of electronic music from its beginnings to the present day.