“Oskar Sala (June 18, 1910 – February 26, 2002) was a 20th century German composer and a pioneer of electronic music. He played an instrument called the trautonium, a predecessor to the synthesizer.

Oskar Sala further developed the trautonium into the Mixtur-Trautonium. The Mixtur-Trautonium allowed for the first time in music history the execution of sounds which had only been known in theory since the Middle Ages, but were never actually playable.”

“In the 1940s and 1950s he worked on many film scores. He created the non-musical soundtrack for Alfred Hitchcock’s film The Birds.”