Scope and Content
Collection of field recordings of Syrian sacred music traditions and extensive documentary photographs of religious traditions and everyday life in the city of Aleppo, Syria. Between 2006 and 2010, the Syrian government and the Syriac Orthodox Church granted Hamacher unprecedented access to sites in the city of Aleppo. Over the course of his five trips to Syria, he documented Syria's minority religious communities including Jews, Sufi Muslims, and several Christian denominations. The collection includes raw image files of religious traditions and culture as well as unedited field recordings of Sufi chants collected by Hamacher. Also included are audio files from two published albums documenting Sufi chants and Armenian Christian chants.