106 Community choir
"Someone Should Take Care": A Selection of Cries and Reflections from the City Call Center
Musical direction of this commissioned project for the City Museum of Tel Aviv-Jaffa | 2023-2024
Musical direction of this commissioned project for the City Museum of Tel Aviv-Jaffa | 2023-2024
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Full playlist here: https://tinyurl.com/106choir
From the performance program:
"Someone sings karaoke in the square and they're off key
Children are making a horrible noise on the sidewalk
A dead cat
I have nothing to report, just asking for orange recycling bags
Disregard is disregard.
A giant fruit grows on a tree but it’s dangerous to pass beneath it when it falls. And fall they do.
And no one has pruned the fruit for years.
Quite worrying.
This is the situation day after day.
A malfunction in the fish pond, dozens fall and die.
A cat stuck in a fence, on the street of intruders
A dog pooped in the street and the owner didn't pick it up
On Alexander Penn street dozens of cockroaches were seen running around.
Cleaning the sidewalk after a rainy night
For a few leaves? To run such an expensive machine, for a few leaves? Hello? Is anyone listening?"
For decades, the city's call center has accumulated complaints, demands, protests, and suggestions. Everything troubling the residents of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (or at least those diligent enough to report) merges in the 106 Archive, whose contents oscillate between the poetic and the political, between the existential insignificance of urban routine and fateful questions about what transpires within it. From an outsider’s perspective, the calls to the center echo each other, interrogate and respond, surfacing the small frustrations that stir the city’s spirit.
Thus the 106 Choir was formed: a civil vocal ensemble continuing the long tradition of "complaint choirs." To the compositions of the city’s creators Rona Kenan, Alon Eder, Michael Cohen, Maya Dunietz, and The Power Strangers (Or Rimmer and Maya Landsman), under the musical direction of the radical choir conductor Tomer Damsky, the choir will voice, cry out, fix, and demand the voices of the city’s complainants through the generations.
Artistic direction and concept: Dafna Kron
Compositions: Rona Kenan, Maya Dunietz, Alon Eder, Michael Cohen, Or Rimmer, and Maya Landsman
Musical direction, arrangement, and conducting: Tomer Damsky
"Someone sings karaoke in the square and they're off key
Children are making a horrible noise on the sidewalk
A dead cat
I have nothing to report, just asking for orange recycling bags
Disregard is disregard.
A giant fruit grows on a tree but it’s dangerous to pass beneath it when it falls. And fall they do.
And no one has pruned the fruit for years.
Quite worrying.
This is the situation day after day.
A malfunction in the fish pond, dozens fall and die.
A cat stuck in a fence, on the street of intruders
A dog pooped in the street and the owner didn't pick it up
On Alexander Penn street dozens of cockroaches were seen running around.
Cleaning the sidewalk after a rainy night
For a few leaves? To run such an expensive machine, for a few leaves? Hello? Is anyone listening?"
For decades, the city's call center has accumulated complaints, demands, protests, and suggestions. Everything troubling the residents of Tel Aviv-Jaffa (or at least those diligent enough to report) merges in the 106 Archive, whose contents oscillate between the poetic and the political, between the existential insignificance of urban routine and fateful questions about what transpires within it. From an outsider’s perspective, the calls to the center echo each other, interrogate and respond, surfacing the small frustrations that stir the city’s spirit.
Thus the 106 Choir was formed: a civil vocal ensemble continuing the long tradition of "complaint choirs." To the compositions of the city’s creators Rona Kenan, Alon Eder, Michael Cohen, Maya Dunietz, and The Power Strangers (Or Rimmer and Maya Landsman), under the musical direction of the radical choir conductor Tomer Damsky, the choir will voice, cry out, fix, and demand the voices of the city’s complainants through the generations.
Artistic direction and concept: Dafna Kron
Compositions: Rona Kenan, Maya Dunietz, Alon Eder, Michael Cohen, Or Rimmer, and Maya Landsman
Musical direction, arrangement, and conducting: Tomer Damsky
