The Complaints Choir project is back in Estonia, debuting a seven-minute collaborative lament led by alternative artist Florian Wahl at Tallinn’s Balti jaama turg on Friday.<\/p>\n
The Tallinn Complaints Choir performance brought together residents who turned everyday grievances into a crowdsourced and collaborative choral piece, developed through rehearsals with Wahl and the Contemporary Art Museum of Estonia (EKKM).<\/p>\n
Based on actual personal complaints, the Estonian lyrics were cowritten by the participants and Wahl, who also composed the music, forging a seven-minute opus that shifts between humor, irritation and collective release.<\/p>\n
Following the premiere, Saturday’s performance will live on as a music video featured in EKKM’s outdoor jubilee summer exhibition<\/a>, which kicks off July 23 and will remain open through September 27.<\/p>\n Collective complaints since 2005<\/p>\n The Complaints Choir project<\/a> was launched in 2005 by Finnish-German artist duo Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, encouraging people to complain freely \u2014 and transform their complaints into music.<\/p>\n The project format went “open source” in 2006 with the publication of a 9-step method for organizing a complaints choir, and has since grown to include over 140 “DIY complaint choirs” worldwide, from Helsinki and Chicago to Melbourne and Singapore.<\/p>\n Saturday’s performance marked the second time the Estonian capital has hosted a complaints choir, following a 2015 edition at the Tallinn Art Hall exhibition “DOings & kNOTs.”<\/p>\n —<\/p>\n Follow ERR News on Facebook<\/a> and X<\/a> and never miss an update!<\/p>\n