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Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium

Every bird in Hitchcock's The Birds is an electronic instrument

Oskar Sala's Mixtur-Trautonium

The film’s mechanical gulls have aged badly; the sound has not aged at all. There is no musical score — only shrieks, wingbeats and the rising static of a flock — and much of it was performed by the early electronic composer Oskar Sala on a Mixtur-Trautonium, an instrument he played rather than programmed. Six decades on, it still doesn’t sound like anything else.

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