MIESKUORO HUUTAJAT (Men's
Choir The Shouters) was formed in 1987 in Oulu, Finland, by a group of young
men who clearly had nothing better to do. The idea was to dress ca. 20
men in black suits, white shirts and black rubber ties, and train them
to shout some of the most beloved songs in the Finnish song heritage. On
the 6th of December (the Finnish Independence Day), the choir were ready
for their first performance. The choir shouted several patriotic songs
and marches, the national anthem included. The audience was left gaping
when the choir departed after a short, but maximally intensive performance.
This is how the press reacted: "HUUTAJAT are quite obviously just starting
on their way to magnificent artistic achievements." One result of this
performance was that the choir quickly expanded to more than thirty members.
The conductor and composer, Petri Sirviö.
A performance on an outdoor balcony
at the Night of Art festival in Oulu.
The conductor levitates.
From the beginning, this
new concept was recognised as a major breakthrough and an art form in its
own right. Traditional singing choirs have given this choir their outer
appearance and a basis for their expression. But this is as far as the
analogy goes. When the choir find a song that pleases their temperament
and warped sense of humour, the conductor starts dismantling it: the melody
goes first and usually the text is also heavily trimmed. The remains are
then cast into a completely new form; the complex rhytmic structure emphasises
the essence of the text, or simply reflects the voices inside the human
brain provoked by the language itself, music, urban or rural noise, or
the blood circulation system.
A shouter's face is a playground of a wide spectrum of human, etc. emotions.
A performance by HUUTAJAT
contains sharp contrasts. The emphatically disciplined expression does
not exclude primitive force; precise articulation mixes with non-linguistic
howl; amusing turns to serious without warning. This has made it impossible
to categorise the act and it has enabled the choir to perform for a variety
of audiences from sweaty rock clubs to chamber music concerts.
Mieskuoro Huutajat have toured abroad dozens of times, performing in Norway, Sweden, Estonia, Russia, Denmark, Iceland, England, Wales, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Serbia-Montenegro, Portugal, U.S.S.R. (R.I.P.), U.S.A., Canada and Japan. But never in Spain. The choir have surfaced in e.g. chamber music halls, rock festivals, jazz clubs, choir festivals, art galleries and museums, railway stations, supermarkets, construction sites, olympic stadiums, occupied houses, mountaintops, ocean shores and wet swamps.
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