De Toonzaal is a
music venue for
chamber music,
improvised music
Musical improvisation (also known as musical extemporization) is the creative activity of immediate ("in the moment") musical composition, which combines performance with communication of emotions and instrumental technique as well as spontaneous ...
, and
experimental music, situated in
Den Bosch
s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a city and municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 157,486. It is the capital of the province of North Brabant and its fourth largest by population. The city is south of th ...
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in a former
synagogue. The music program is mainly focused on
classical music and
contemporary music, less on
popular music
Popular music is music with wide appeal that is typically distributed to large audiences through the music industry. These forms and styles can be enjoyed and performed by people with little or no musical training.Popular Music. (2015). ''Fu ...
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The synagogue was built in 1823. During World War II a row of houses was built in front of the synagogue to block the view. Forty years later these houses were taken down to give the building its old appearance in the city. After World War II until the 1970s, the synagogue became less used.
Toonzaal Studio
In October 2015 De Toonzaal opened an analog studio for education, recording and experimentation. The studio features a broad range of
sound synthesis
A synthesizer (also spelled synthesiser) is an electronic musical instrument that generates audio signals. Synthesizers typically create sounds by generating waveforms through methods including subtractive synthesis, additive synthesis and f ...
equipment (mainly made by
Hewlett Packard in the 1960s) suitable to create sound and music and record this analog and digital recording. The main installation is a voltage controlled vintage measurement equipment consisting out of
tone generator
A signal generator is one of a class of electronic devices that generates electrical signals with set properties of amplitude, frequency, and wave shape. These generated signals are used as a stimulus for electronic measurements, typically used i ...
s,
noise generators,
oscillators, filters,
sequencers and an
analog computer
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computer that uses the continuous variation aspect of physical phenomena such as electrical, mechanical, or hydraulic quantities (''analog signals'') to model the problem being solved. In ...
. The studio is connected to the concert space and can relay the live performances as well as interact with them.
CBK Toonzaalprijs
Yearly Muziekcentrum De Toonzaal in collaboration with (CBK) gives away the
CBK Toonzaalprijs award. The first this happened was in 2010 to Laura Hoek and in 2013 Shirley Welten.
References
External links
Official website(in Dutch)
Festival Theater aan de Parade about De ToonzaalArticle in newspaperBrabants Dagblad
''Brabants Dagblad'' is a daily Dutch newspaper. It is distributed in the center and northeast of North Brabant, in 's-Hertogenbosch and Tilburg and their surrounding regions. The paper's office is in 's-Hertogenbosch.
History
18th century
T ...
about De Toonzaal
Websitededicated to
early music about De Toonzaal
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Music venues in the Netherlands
Concert halls in the Netherlands
's-Hertogenbosch
Buildings and structures in 's-Hertogenbosch
Rijksmonuments in North Brabant