{"id":604,"date":"2012-02-27T09:00:27","date_gmt":"2012-02-27T09:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/?p=604"},"modified":"2012-03-30T18:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-03-30T18:56:04","slug":"music-exchange-in-syria-facilitated-by-the-open-hands-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/music-exchange-in-syria-facilitated-by-the-open-hands-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Music Exchange in Syria, Facilitated by The Open Hands Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, the Open Hands Initiative facilitated a <a href=\"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/musicExchange\/syria_music_exchange.html\">music exchange<\/a> in Syria. Brian Unger, an American music producer, collaborated with local Syrian musicians, creating over 10 songs that are now available\u00a0for your enjoyment. This exchange was meant to expose the beautiful sounds of Syrian culture to the Western world as well as boost the local amateur music scene.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twais-on-Stage.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-647\" title=\"Twais on Stage\" src=\"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twais-on-Stage.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"479\" height=\"285\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twais-on-Stage.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/Twais-on-Stage-300x178.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The local musicians include Shafi Badreddin, Twais Quartet, MAqam, Women&#8217;s Takht, Hewar Band, and Fattet Laabet. \u00a0The artists&#8217; music vary in style and sound, but all reflect the Syrian music scene and culture. Local music technicians and producers were also given tutorials on production techniques by Brian Unger. Through the collaboration of the musicians, producers, and ECHO Musical Cultural Association (a Syrian non-profit) the songs are now ready for an audience.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about the program and to listen to the tracks\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/openhandsinitiative.org\/musicExchange\/syria_music_exchange.html\">click here<\/a>, or enjoy this <a title=\"Music Exchange Video\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/WUpGZjhUx78\">video about the program<\/a> on our YouTube Channel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2010, the Open Hands Initiative facilitated a music exchange in Syria. Brian Unger, an American music producer, collaborated with local Syrian musicians, creating over 10 songs that are now available\u00a0for your enjoyment. This exchange was meant to expose the beautiful sounds of Syrian culture to the Western world as well as boost the local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[27,20,14],"class_list":["post-604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syria","tag-brian-unger","tag-culture","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":628,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604\/revisions\/628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.openhandsinitiative.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}