Daniel Kordík — [Sy][ria]

BENEFIT RELEASE FOR AVAAZ

"[Sy][ria] consists of 5 compositions based mainly on sound from field recordings made between April and May 2011 at various locations across Syria. These include Damascus, Maaloula, "Road 90" to Palmyra, Deir ez-Zur, Aleppo and Hama and their surrounding areas. For security reasons, at a time when the government forces were trying to suppress the start of the uprising, I used only my Sony portable minidisc recorder with its internal microphone.

Rather than words and their meanings this recording is purely about the flow and intensity of the recorded sounds, as they were passing their present moment while touching the membrane of the microphone and then fading into the past. This recording is an amplification of those departed sounds and their reconfiguration as hope and imagination for a better future for Syrian people.

Based on the ongoing events in Syria that would eventually break the country down into pieces, I cut my initial field recordings into small fragments and re-arranged them into new compositions. At the end I decided to add two more tracks made on Vostok synthesiser.

Where images take us apart sounds can bring us together."

Daniel Kordík

Money collected from the downloads will be used to help people who had to flee Syria due to the ongoing civil war. There are currently over 1 million children who are refugees of Syria with no schools to go to. Kordík and LOM hope that this recording can generate some money for these children, so they do not become "a lost generation". The money will be donated to the AVAAZ organization.