Cadaverous Pallor
12-12-2006, 09:08 PM
Heard about this on NPR today.
The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as much as they want and to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. The first choir was organised in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choir of Helsinki and Hamburg.It's a double-edged sword - they use normal people, so they get, well, inexperienced singers. The Birmingham one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w84qzHdEms) , in English, is rather bad, but the Helsinki one (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4685602358019994174&q=complain+chorus), with subtitles, sounds nice since it's a large chorus (and not flat in tone, either).
Such a cool idea though.
The Complaints Choir invites people to complain as much as they want and to sing their complaints out loud together with fellow complainers. The first choir was organised in Birmingham followed by the Complaints Choir of Helsinki and Hamburg.It's a double-edged sword - they use normal people, so they get, well, inexperienced singers. The Birmingham one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2w84qzHdEms) , in English, is rather bad, but the Helsinki one (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4685602358019994174&q=complain+chorus), with subtitles, sounds nice since it's a large chorus (and not flat in tone, either).
Such a cool idea though.