Radio Audition Of The Original Chors
	September 8. 2003 Arrival: Empfangshalle take a look around. Kuopio is a small city full of sad Finns. Down by the lake they are singing folk songs in a minor key. September 9 Lively getting in and out of buses at the city’s large bus station. It is the turnstile for long-distance buses. From east to west, from north to south. Job-seekers, people who have been abandoned one way or another, people with weekend love-affairs, commuters and people returning home get out of buses that come from every lasr corner of Finland. September 10 –13 Empfangshalle puts together a chorus of people whom they have met on the street. They sing Finnish folk songs. September 15 Little paper flags are distributed to the long-distance bus drivers. „Cape of Good Hope -we sing your requests“ is written on them. The news gets around. September 18-20 The travellers request a song from the bus driver. He calls the main office. The singers get ready. Arrival in Kuopio. A motley chorus stands in the arrivals area to greet the bus with with the requested song. The city is full of messages. Especially where needs are to be awakened: To have something, to get something, or to experience something. These messages, with the necessary appeal, are brought to passers-by on so-called advertising mega-spaces.