Innovative electronic music composer and physicist Oskar Sala would have celebrated his 112th birthday on Monday.
The German is hailed for producing sound effects on a musical instrument called a mixture trautonium that transformed the world of radio, film and television.
On Monday, Google is changing its logo in 27 countries to a doodle, or illustration, in his honour.
Sala was born in Greiz, Germany, in 1910. Since birth, he was surrounded by music. His mother was a singer and his father was an ophthalmologist with musical talent.Sala studied piano and organ at an early age. As a teenager, he began performing classical piano concerts and creating compositions and songs.
At the age of 19, Sala moved to Berlin to study piano and composition with the violinist Paul Hindemith.
There, he was introduced to Friedrich Trautwein’s work, an engineer who was recognised for developing one of the earliest electronic musical instruments, the trautonium, an instrument whose tone produces an electronic pulse that is converted into sound by a loudspeaker....
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