Odo Deodatus I. Tauern (November 14, 1885 – July 11, 1926) was a German ethnologist, physicist, and inventor from a family of nobility who travelled to Southeast Asia as part of an expedition. He made the oldest known recordings of Balinese music on Edison wax cylinders.[1] He collected for the ethnographic museum in Freiburg. He also made innovations in film and cinematography.