Frequencies of Peace

Posted on October 10, 2023 | 2 Comments

Like the rest of the world, I am horrified by the violence in the Gaza Strip and Israel at the moment. There will be children going to bed terrified tonight. The children of Syria have been going to sleep to the sounds of war for the past ten years. A recent initiative funded by UNHCR, Babyshop,Spiritune, and Anghami has taken neuroscience and music psychology to create a lullaby. It has a tempo which can be speeded up or slowed down, depending on the child’s level of alertness; it has a limited number of notes, and it picks up on Arabic tonal structures. It is played on Syrian radio stations at 8.00 p.m. and cars with speakers mounted on the roof drive slowly through the streets, playing the lullaby.

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2 responses to “Frequencies of Peace”

  1. artandarchitecturemainly's avatar artandarchitecturemainly | October 10, 2023 at 6:56 am | Reply

    It is not only children who cannot sleep. I am terrified on behalf of all my family who live in Israel, even though they were all born in Britain or Australia. It won’t protect them having foreign passports nor will it protect them that the nieces and nephews are children – children are the terrorists’ favourite target.

    My son and his family are alive, thank goodness. But two of my nephews, having finished their 3 years in the army, have been called back to serve again. Will the pain ever stop?

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