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Sunday, 16 October 2011, 11.00 h. | BAM HAll | Carrillo versus Fokker | For the third year in row the Huygens-Fokker Foundation organizes together with the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ the concert Pimp My Organ! The computerized Fokker organ will again be expanded, revamped and pimped-up! Besides this the 31-tone organ will be played by composer/ performer Warren Burt (who is projected on a wall with a beamer) through the internet from Australia, using the newest digital possibilities. On the programme works composed by Christina Oorebeek and Marc Sabat. Tickets can be reserved at the Muziekgebouw.	New! | MicroFest Amsterdam 2011 A one day festival for microtonal music on Sunday the 11th of December, 2011. Een sociable musical day for all people who love different tunings and microtonality. Single concerts are 15 euros, a passe-partout for the entire festival costs only 24 euros. Don't miss this great event! Read more here.
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Sunday, 16 October 2011, 11.00 h. | BAM HAll | Carrillo versus Fokker | Concert Premiere! Presentation of the Carrillo-piano. The 96-toons Carrillo piano and the 31-tone Fokker organ will compete with each other musically and also join forces during this unique concert. Apart from the existing repertoire, this is reflected in new works by the composers Torsten Anders, Martin Lo-A-Njoe and Juan Felipe Waller. The clear conflict between the two instruments will also be translated into an impro-battle, performed by musicians Maarten van Veen and Ere Lievonen. Tickets for the concert can be reserved at the Muziekgebouw. Check sponsors!	Renovation Fokker-organ The Fokker organ needed a restoration badly. It had to be reassembled, renovated and rebuilt into a modern organ. Requests haven been sent to various funds. The Huygens-Fokker Foundation needed these financial aids, because otherwise this unique 31-tone organ would be in danger of being lost. The plan was to place the Fokker organ definitively above the glass wall of the BAM Zaal in the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ in Amsterdam. A better location could not have been wished for. In this room one will be able to enjoy, through concerts and educational projects, music specially composed for the instrument and the unique musical heritage that Christiaan Huygens (proponent of the 31-tone system) has initiated in the Netherlands. Read more

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