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| This is the Complaint Choir sharing web-site. Here you can find information about all complaints choirs that have been initiated around the world. You can also submit information about an upcoming choir, find fellow complainers and vote for your favourite complaints choir. This project was initiated by Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kallleinen in 2005. The First Complaints Choir was organized in Birmingham followed by the Helsinki Complaints Choir. more... |
LATEST NEWS: COMPLAINTS CHOIR MANIA AT ARS ELECTRONICA IN LINZ!
Ars Electronica 2010 in Linz will be under heavy influence of the Complaints Choir project. The newly build Ars Electronic Centre (itself an object of a number of complaints) will show a video installation with choir videos from around the globe. The opening will be on July 29 and the piece can be seen until end of September 2010.
But Linzer complainers don't have to just passively watch people from other cities joyfully complain. Ars Electronica will together with ORF coordinate a special complaints choir that will perform during the Ars Electronica Festival. Beside disgruntled media artists anybody can take part. In a noble twist, the Linzer Choir will not only complain, but provide solutions as well, therefore the slighly misleading renaming of the choir into Repair Choir aka Reparatur Chor. (By conicidence this years festival theme is REPAIR - Sind Wir Noch Zu Retten).
Anybody in the region is welcome to join. For more detail check ORF's website or download the flyer. |
LATEST NEWS: ULTIMATE PERFORMANCE OF HONGKONG COMPLAINTS CHOIR
The Complaints Choir of Hongkong will hold its ultimate perfromance: a complete symphony of complaints with the great title "Our City, Our Bittersweet Symphony." |
LATEST NEWS: COMPLAINTS CHOIR VIRUS REACHED TASMANIA!
The fellow moaners of Tasmania are tuning up local complaints in for their highly anticipated appearance at the Festival of Voices from July 7 - 11. This festival of choirs celebrates the power of the voice and community spirit. Australian artist and songwriter, Kavisha Mazzella is coming to Hobart to lead the enthusiastic choir. - "We are really excited to be able to have a Complaints Choir", says Skye Targett from the choir. |
LATEST NEWS: UPLIFTING (or DIVINE) GRUMBLING IN A COLUMBIAN CHURCH
The Complaints Choir of Columbus had its first performance in the majestic First Congregational Church. By the initiative of the Columbus Museum of Art a 25-person group was gathered to give voice to the most current mutterings of Columbus citizens.
The museum collected the complaints, which then were transformed into music by local songwriter David Holm. The piece was settled on a percussive approach that would reflect the act of complaining. A video from the reheasals will be soon on view at the Museum.
"There is something about complaining - when you sing about it - that almost makes you feel happy," says Lisa Dent, associate curator for contemporary art at the museum. The choir complained about broccoli, gum in the hair, texting while driving and empty milk cartons in the refrigerator.
The Columbus Dispatch has more on the story.
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LATEST NEWS: CAIRO COMPLAINTS CHOIR PERFORMS 4 SONGS!
Cairo celebrated the first Complaimts Choir in an African city on May 23. (The first Complaints Choir organized in Africa was only open for employees of Roche Diagnostics in Randburg /Johannesburg).
“There’s a lot of repression in Cairo, so instead of taking it out on each other, it’s better to join a Complaints Choir,” said Suzan Radwan, an actress and member of the choir.
Sarah Rifky, a curator at Townhouse Gallery, initiated the choir and invited people to join a complaints workshop. Particpants of the workshop spent six days preparing and rehearsing under the guidance of theater director and writer Salam Yousry and standup comedian Moataz Attallah. Accompanied by the oud and tabla, the chorus managed to turn almost all of their complaints into four uplifting songs.
The four songs comprised different themes, ranging from the political — extension of the emergency law in Egypt, civil rights and bureaucracy — to the personal and the trivial — bad TV shows, annoying neighbors and petty behaviors. The songs also criticized government officials’ abuse of power, with a particular emphasis on police officers. Aly Sobhy, an actor and member of the choir whose long hair seems to attract unwanted attention wherever he goes, told Daily News Egypt, “Policemen always stop me in the street and tell me to cut my hair, why do they think they have a say over what I do with my hair.”
(as reported in www.thedailynewsegypt.com by Heba Fahmy)
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LATEST NEWS: COLUMBUS COMPLAINTS CHOIR LAUNCHED!
The Columbus Museum of Art is currently gathering complaints from the community in preparation for Columbus' first Complaints Choir performance on June 5. Musician David Holm will compose original music for the Choir and a rehearsal schedule is in the works. The Columbus Dispatch has more on the story. |
LATEST NEWS: VIENNA COMPLAINTS CHOIR WILL HIT THE STREETS SOON!
The Vienna Complaints Choir aka Wiener Beschwerdechor will have it's first public performance at a secret location in Vienna in the middle of April. The choir was initiated by Oliver Hangl and has more than 50 members. Viennese are particular proud of their local complaints culture. They boast more then 10 different synonymous words for complaining : raunzen, motschkern, keppeln, granteln, nörgeln, kritteln, meckern, jammern etc. For more info check: www.wienerbeschwerdechor.at (Photo by P.A. Knope) |
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