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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: ZURICH COMPLAINTS CHOIR STARTS WORKING
The Complaints Choir of Zurich met for the first time on last Saturday for a complaints workshop. The Choir is organizied by Shedhalle in the framework of the excellent exhibition IM/POSSIBLE COMMUNITY. The choir will perform for the finisage on January 30, at 8pm. For further information check the website of Shedhalle.
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LATEST NEWS: PREVIEW OF TOKYO COMPLAINTS CHOIR ONLINE.
Here is an online sneak preview of the Complaints Choir of Tokyo music video.
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LATEST NEWS: WESTCOAST CANADA HAS NOW FOUR COMPLAINTS CHOIRS.
After successful Complaints Choir projects in Gabriola, Sointula and Vancouver the area is stepping up it's complaints efforts with a new choir established at Port Coquitlam in British Columbia. By rough estimation the area could have the highest density of complaints choir worldwide. The Port Coquitlam Complaints Choir was initiated by Judy Johnson. In an article by the TriCityNews she tells about the choir:
" 'We complained a lot,' Johnson laughed. 'We wrote down all the complaints and then we wrote the lyrics and composer Wayne Sawyer put it to music. We had so much fun with this.' The result is an eight-minute piece with about five different songs in it.
After looking at the rather long list of complaints Johnson said they discovered some emerged with their own rhythm, like the story of a bear climbing into a garbage bin, 'which everyone in PoCo can relate to.' That piece is called the Bear Bin Boogie.
'We complained about taxes of course, about traffic, about bridges, about bears and garbage, the underpass, the traffic around Safeway... everyday PoCo stuff,' Johnson said. The brief songs are like a series of excursions around the city — and the challenges people encounter in each unique area."
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LATEST NEWS: PARTICIPANTS WANTED - ISTANBUL COMPLAINTS CHOIR.
Complainers in Istanbul will have the opportunity to get their vocies heard at the end of this turbulent year. Certainly there were enough issues in 2009 providing material for a whole complaints opera. The appropriately named non-profit organisation Contemporary Utopia Management will organize the Choir. Sign up to the choir until December 3.
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LATEST NEWS: PREMIERE FOR COMPLAINTS CHOIR OF TOKYO ANNOUNCED
While the Complaints Choir of Tokyo is rehearsing with great enthusiams, we already can announced the location for the choirs grand premiere. It will be held at the ARENA on Roppongi Hills below the Mori Tower on Friday November 13 at 19:00. The choir will perform its 10 minute long complaints song for everybody that shows up - for free... Please invite everybody to hear our complaints.
There will be further performances on Saturday November 14th, for example at Zojo-ji Temple at 15:00 and at Ometosando hills at 19:30. You can find more details on the Tokyo Complaints Choir.at the officila blog of the choir or at Mori Art Museum website. |
LATEST NEWS: PREMIERE OF COMPLAINTS CHOIR MOVIE AT COPENHAGEN DOC-FILMFESTIVAL
Moaners of all nations, unite in song!
"What are you complaining about? This is the question that two Finnish artists have journeyed out to ask people in all four corners of the world in documentary director Ada Bligaard Søby's docu-musical. Their aim is not to pour salt in the wounds of the world's grumpy complainers, but to let everyone vent their dissatisfaction about everything from parking fines to climate change in a liberating chorus of whining harmonies. We are taken to places such as Chicago and Singapore, and even if the cultures vary, it's obvious that complaining is a basic human trait, and it is tackled with a deadpan approach by the two Finns. Ada Bligaard Søby has, in a short space of time, made her mark as an original new name in the Danish film world, among other things with last year's poetic New York postcard 'Black Heart'. With 'Complaints Choir' she is adding a promising first feature to her resume."
Director: Ada Bligaard Søby, Danmark 2009, 56 min.
CHECK OUT THE COOL MOVIE-TRAILER !!! |
LATEST NEWS: COMPLAINTS CHOIR OF TOKIO STARTED ITS WORK
The Tokio Complaints Choir finally came together for the first meeting at the Mori tower. 90 people showed up and complained. In the first meeting the lyrics for the upcoming choir song were pre-selected. Also a great number of new complaints were created. They ranged from the national debt to "My Grandmother thinks she is an American"! One popular topic was work with more than 300 complaints submitted. For example: "I don't liek to take care of my boss when we go out drinking." More details at the blog of the Tokyo Complaints Choir. |
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