CONSTRUCTION CHOIR COLLECTIVE

Screening SOHO Ottakring Festival Video

SOHO STUDIOS, Ottakring, Vienna
18.09.2024

The same place, four years later. We are back to SOHO STUDIOS to experience the short film we created in the spring of 2020 as part of the SOHO Ottakring Festival!

The event showcases the outcome of an artistic research workshop on “Public and Oral History - Social Storytelling”, organized by x-arts in collaboration with SOHO STUDIOS.

We’re also thrilled to have Pavel Naydenov, one of our choir conductors, among the artists participating in the workshop and performing at the event.

About the film:
In 2020, as concerts and live events were paused due to the pandemic, we channeled our creativity into this film, capturing the spirit of that unique moment in time.

How to utopia | MACHBARE UTOPIEN

Kongreßbad
31.08.2024

Inspired by Yona Friedman’s Utopies réalisables, 1975 (feasible utopias), the 2024 edition of CLUB RADIOKOJE will probe how to maintain a sustainable and resilient society. For many artists today, social design and collective work processes have become vital.

CLUB RADIOKOJE takes place for the seventh time in 2024 under the title “How to Utopia.” We explore the idea of form follows community, inviting a series of collectives that engage in new socio-techniques of creative practice. CLUB RADIOKOJE allows the audience to actively participate in the event and contribute to a water composition commissioned by czirp czirp.

Artist Collectives: Construction Choir Collective (INTL), Das Erste Ottakringer Blockflötengewitter (AT), Kollektiv KLAUS (INTL), Lissie Rettenwander (AT) and a multiple-eyes composition by Benjamin Tomasi (AT/IT).

CCC took part with four performances:
*Choir Sculpture
*Concert
*Slide intervention "The Sirens"
*Introduction to Finale: "Badeschluss"

Photo credit: Aled Ordu

MUSEUM OF VOICES - ALDO GIANNOTT I HOUSE OF CONSTRUCTS

Kunstforum, Wien
15.06.2024

ALDO GIANNOTT I HOUSE OF CONSTRUCTS // IN KOLLABORATION MIT KARIN PAUER

DAY 4 MUSEUM OF VOICES
Different choirs with diverse musical specializations from all over the city were invited to hold a collective rehearsal in the institution - in collaboration with the Construction Choir Collective, N-Chor, and Subchor.

VIENNA SHORTS Opening Concert

Gartenbaukino, Vienna
28.05.2024

The theme of Vienna's international short film festival this year: What Are You Longing For?
It is about this desire for more: more peace, more security, more love - or simply more paradise.

More than 300 films are on the program at the 21st edition of VIENNA SHORTS

What Are You Longing For?

Flash Mob: Ode an die Freude

Stefansplatz
30.04.2024

Spiel oder sing mit beim Flashmob Ode an die Freude!

Flashmob zum 200. Jahrestag der Uraufführung von Ludwig van Beethovens 9. Symphonie am 7.5.1824 in Wien.

mit einem Orchester der mdw
Musikalische Leitung: Fedor Rudin
Idee & Konzept: Dietmar Flosdorf

ein Projekt der mdw – Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien

Documentary about Radio Culture in Austria

ORF-Funkhaus, Vienna
10.04.2024

A documentary about radio productions and culture in Austria. Directed by Heidi Neuburger-Dumancic. Premiere in October 2024.

Dubgarden x CCC Experimental Performance

Loop Wien
23.03.2024

DUBGARDEN in March with a powerful duo called NATTYLOOP HIFI aka B.RANKS & KINETICAL, bringin' the nearly 20-year-old project on stage again, heavy tunes in Dub and beyond with a strong Mic performance.
Another project, called CCC - CONSTRUCTION CHOIR COLLECTIVE, will be on stage... a lovely multi-cultural group of people singin' together a multi-cultural mix of beautiful songs and cool experimental stuff will meet Dub for the first time...special one.

AKH Christmas Concert

AKH Wien, Universitätsklinikum - AKH Wien
18.12.2023

NOCTURNAL (COM)PASSION: PERFORMANCE

Jesuitenkirche / Universitätskirche; Doktor-Ignaz-Seipel-Platz 1, 1010 Wien, Österreich
15.11.2023

Join us for VIENNA ART WEEK’S artistic and performative intervention, “Nocturnal (Com)Passion”.

A collective performance of interdisciplinary artists offers each practice its own space, but also gives room to interaction, experimentation and the intersection of artists and art forms.

Artists:
Rozi Mákó (Sound)
Viktor Szeri (Performance)
Roman Hauser (Organ)
Construction Choir Collective (Vocals)

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 3 | Academic mixed choir Gaudeamus

Serbisch-Orthodoxe Kirche, Vienna
15.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 2 | N Choir

Katholische Kirche Neufünfhaus (Christus König)
14.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 2 | Academic mixed choir Gaudeamus

Katholische Kirche Neufünfhaus (Christus König)
14.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 2 | CCC

Burjanplatz
14.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 2 | Hamburger GewerkschafterInnen

Burjanplatz, Vienna
14.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 1 | N Choir

Wild im West
13.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 1 | Hamburger GewerkschafterInnen

Wild im West
13.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 1 | Academic mixed choir Gaudeamus

Wild im West
13.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna | Day 1 | CCC

Wild im West
13.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna

Wild im West / Burjanplatz
13-15.10.2023

“Vokale Verwandlungen – International Choir Festival Vienna” creates a platform and gives space to different artistic approaches to choir practices where the audience can explore the beauty of diverse music. The festival is in the framework where amateur and professional choirs come together for three days.

The festival wants to explore the diversity of music, showcase different genres, and celebrate the act of singing together from 13 to 15 October 2023.

Organized by Construction Choir Collective and Pavel Naydenov

Graphic design by Raphael Volkmer

Baustellenball

Wild im West
29.09.2023

Concert and performance at Baustellenball

WIENWOCHE festival: "Museum of Migration" (MUSMIG)

Academy of Fine Arts | Schillerplatz 3
16.09.2023

The "Museum of Migration" (MUSMIG), long prepared and longed for, finally manifests itself again! After a Corona-related pause for reflection, it is brought back to life by its collaborators. For an entire joyful day, over thirty people from the arts, academia, and activism will engage in performances, lectures, manifestos, conversations, and songs to ask how its present and future can be sustainably shaped.

Choir Weekend 2023

Near Graz
8-10.09.2023

It's a green start to the new singing season. Back together in our annual choir weekend, we are getting ready for the upcoming concerts in Vienna.

Lido Eröffnung | Kollektiv Kaorle

Ottakringerstrasse 201
05.07.2023

Wiener Festwochen "The long, very long journey"

Kunst Halle
13.05.2023

Performance by Laure Prouvost and Sam Belinfante, in collaboration with Patricia Auchterlonie, Susanna Gartmayer, Ingrid Oberkanins, OMAS GEGEN RECHTS, Superar Kinderchor

"Das Begräbnis", Radio Play

ORF-Funkhaus, Vienna
May 2023

Construction Choir collective performing in the radio play "Das Begräbnis" by Marc Carnal on Ö1, May 6th at 2 pm!

Frauenkampftag

Sigmund Freud Park, Vienna
08.03.2023

Concert at the demonstration for International Women’s Day, in collaboration with Femchor and Groove-Chor Wien

Performative Walk

7th District, Vienna
Winter 2022

Kisses & Slugs for Parallel Vienna

Semmelweißklinik, Vienna
Summer 2022

Stromklang Festival x CCC

WERK, Vienna
Autum 2022

Choir Weekend

Minciostraße 17, 1150 Vienna
Summer 2022

Open Rehersal

Wild im West, Mariahilferstraße 166
Summer 2022

Bring a fellow bird

Angewandte, 1030 Vienna
Summer 2022

Guy Rebel x CCC Wienerfestwochen

Belvedere 21, 1030 Vienna
Summer 2022

Sponsion Angewandte

Angewandte
Spring 2022

The A – a three body problem Performative Concert

Angewandte
19.11.2021

The A – a three body problem - artwork by Barbis Ruder
Choir Performance by Construction Choir Collective
Part of Vienna Art Week 2021

Inspiriert von der gotischen Architektur der Dominikanerkirche Krems (Österreich) verhandelt die neue dreiteilige Arbeit von Barbis Ruder mit dem Titel „A“ die Beziehung von Körper zum skulpturalen Körper (Korpus) und dessen Bezug zum architektonischen Raum.

A – Inscription

Ein Video-Loop der Einschreibung des Körpers in die Architektur. im Takt zu einer schwingenden A-Saite bewegt sich der Körper entlang der Raumkanten.

A – Choir

Der Chor „A“ verortet die Note des Kammertons „A“ und das sich Einschwingen auf die Note in einer Komposition als Videoarbeit.

A – Instrument
Das Instrument „A“ ist eine kinetische Skulptur, bestehend aus einem Dreieck, basierend auf einem Dachstuhl und den technischen Fähigkeiten und Kenntnissen aus Architektur und Zimmerei.

10 + 1: Audio and Visual Codes of the National Identity

Haus Wittgenstein, Vienna
Autum 2021

Concert at the opening of "10 + 1: Audio and Visual Codes of the National Identity" Exhibition

Vocal Metamorphosis

Pernerstorfergasse, 1100 Vienna
Autum 2021

Ottensheim Choir Weekend

Hofmühle Ottensheim, Upper Austria
Summer 2021

Hope on Hope off

Vienna
Summer 2021

Urbanzie 2020

Floridsdorf, Vienna
Autum 2020

CCC x Seniorenheim

Schmidtgasse 11, 1080 Vienna
Autum 2020

Choir Weekend Ottensheim

Ottensheim, Upper Austria
Summer 2020

Urban Soundscapes - Wiener Festwochen

Meidlinger Markt, 1120 Vienna
Summer 2020

A performative concert where we got together slowly and curious in the middle of a square of Meidlinger Markt. Each and everyone of us holding a piece they found in the urban environment – plastic foils, small wooden forks, small pebbles and more became our instruments, our tools to perceive our surroundings in a different manner. Once we arrived we raised our voices and sang our concert ranging trough different genres, languages and melodies. Echoing through the streets of the 12th district in Vienna..

SOHO Ottakring Festival

1160 Vienna
Spring 2020

For the SOHO Ottakring Festival the CCC produced a video, as any concerts were still not possible due to Corona. Finally the choir was able to meet again (with a lot of distance) in public spaces. But for us it was a beautiful respite between lockdowns as we claimed the 16th district and different locations in it - ranging from rooftops, parks, hallways to public squares. Each place would get their own song. Occasionally people passed by and were able to witness these brief songs and smiled. We also had the honor to work with the composer Nava Hemyari. She composed a site specific piece, which was experimenting with soundscapes, bubbley sounds and more.

Staircase Concert #2

University for applied Arts Vienna, Vordere Zollamtstraße 3
Spring 2020

Our second staircase concert was in a slightly different context. It was not about connecting strangers but rather the students of a university. As a few members of the collective are connected to the university of applied arts Vienna we organized a concert there so that students might briefly stop their work, open up their doors and briefly hear the charming songs that where echoing through the halls of Angewandte. A respite from work and stress – breaking the everyday.

Excursion Sofia

Sofia, Bulgaria
01-05.02.2020

Our first excursion was to Bulgaria Sofia as one of the founding members of the choir is Bulgarian and invited the collective for a beautiful journey. In the spirit of the choir we claimed many different places in Sofia for singing. A courtyard, inside of the metro and in some hot springs. We also had the opportunity to sing along a local choir and formed our first bounds to other choirs.

Staircase Concert #1

Schleifmühlgasse, 1040 Wien
Winter 2019

The concept of a staircase choir concert was our first self initiated project and came into being through a discussion around what unusual yet acoustically beautiful places exist. It was during that time that we also started to get a better understanding on what a collective means – we internally started to organize in working groups, used existing skills (in this particular case graphic design) and had interesting discussions. It all concluded in our first staircase choir concert. The purpose – to sing in unusual places and connect neighbors that normally would stay inside never using the staircases for anything else other than transition. It was at this concert were we also talked about our history, our dream and the individual stories that live inside the collective for the first time. Beautiful voices along candles on a staircase with smiling neighbors and friends.

Urbanize 2019

Belvedere 21
8-13.10.2019

With the statement “Alle Tage Wohnungsfrage” Urbanize 2019 was raising questions around fair rent prices, who owns property and what adequate housing means. The CCC create a performance, where song text were rewritten to reflect the topic of Urbanize 2019. The audience was entering Belvedere 21, the choir was standing in to opposing lines repeating sentences like “How much for a little roof over your head”, “Alle Tage Wohnungsfrage” and others, in order to enter the exhibition you had to pass through the choir confronting them with the topic. A mixture between intervention and performance. In the end the choir also performed a regular concert with a diversity of songs.

Fredericke

Vienna 1140
Autum 2019

Fredericke - A roof construction for public spaces, creating a room for discussion, art and culture in the 14th district. Fragile, always moving as it needs to be held in order to stay. A statement that space needs to be claimed and supported by people. The Construction Choir Collective was founded for this project and was setting it up in a performative manner. Rhythmically Pumping air into the plastic roof tiles, singing a diverse repertoire and creating lingering soundscapes, holding Fredericke whilst other artists used it as a stage. In this project we constructed, we found our uniform – the Blaumann – and it paved the way for our everlasting dream of a choir collective.This project was imaged by Daniel Aschwanden and Michael Wallraff.

We are the CCC

We love to sing and perform.
We are professional amateurs.
We are open minded.
Everyone is welcome to join.

Courageously claiming staircases, metro stations, stages, parks and neigbourhoods.
To create lingering moments of voices, sounds and momvements.

For some we are exciting.
For some we are beautiful.
For some we might be irritating.

But we invite everyone equally to see, hear and feel anew.
To break grey patterns of the everyday and readjust our view on the space around us, the body and the voice.
What brings us together is a light-hearted take on music, where the collective is more important than individual performance.

We are the courageous ones.
We are the charming ones.
We are the Construction Choir Collective.

Contact & Booking:
hallo@constructionchoircollective.cc

Drop us a line if you want to cooperate, work or join us.

Projects

The history of the CCC

The collective was orignally founded summer 2019 for a project called “Fredericke”. The goal of this project was to create room for art, cultur and music in public space. In a performative manner we set up a roof construction that even fully set up needed people in order to support it becoming a metaphorical showcase of what a collective means. Through this project we also got our name “Construction Choir Collective” and our uniform the blaumann.

Afterwards the spirit of the collective was already so strong that we decided to go forward with it without a second thought. Kicking off years with many different projects - performativ and musically. Selfe initiated staircase concerts, so that neigbouhrs get to know each other, performances at Wiener Festwochen and Urbanize, excursions to Bulgaria to meet choirs from a different culture and to celebrate the birthday of our conductor or a concert in a sightseeing bus, where we also told the story of our collective. And many more..

Even Corona could not stop us as we were still rehearsing - muted on a zoom call alone in our room to a youtube tutorial. What holds us together is a vision, a spirit, a bond. In summer 2019 we allowed ourself to collectively dream a beautiful dream and even if the circumstances change, members taking a break, new voices starting to sound, old ones fading away for good. The body of the collective will always life on and will transform the atmospheres of cities and its people through its voice.

Cooperations

Impressum

Construction Choir Collective
Verein zur Förderung transdisziplinärer künstlerischer Arbeit im sozialen Raum
ZVR-Zahl:1679488898
1200 Wien, Raffaelgasse 20/1/6
Österreich