LETTERS FROM PEACE

Description:

The song was composed in many phases.

First, the students were asked to read in class articles about the unaccompanied Ukrainian children who have arrived in Greece during the current war in their country. An incident of a little Ukrainian girl who stumbled, fell and burst into tears as she was getting of the bus on her way to a children’s shelter in Athens, caught the class’s attention, the students got inspired and started writing the lyrics.

The second phase of the song was made by using a piano and an open-source music notation software. One student was at the piano experimenting with chords and another one was at the computer putting the chords in the software and editing them.

During the third phase, the students were asked to bring their musical instruments in class in order to experiment and improvise musical patterns and ideas in order to build the song’s melody.

The fourth phase was about rehearsing and deciding the order that the melody patterns would appear in the song.

After that we had three more phases, one for recording the instruments and voice in open- source recording software, one for editing everything and a last one for designing the song’s banner.

The teachers offered coordination and inspiration so that the students would reach their full potential both individually and as a team. All the recordings and sound editing were made by students during school hours, in school.

Instruments: voice, violin, classical guitar, saxophone, electric guitar, electric bass, cajon

LETTERS FROM PEACE

Ι stumbled and fell and burst into tears because of Peace’s lost letters.

I find scribbles in everyone that I open. It feels like unfolding an endless skein.

While I look for answers I understand that I am holding people’s torments in my hands.

When the unfolding is over I start knitting for the children of war.

A blanket, a warm embrace.

School: LETTERS FROM PEACE