Armchair travellers can take a sonic tour of hundreds of Unesco heritage sites via a virtual library of atmospheric soundscapes available free-to-listen online.
Sound artist Stuart Fowkes has been capturing and curating field recordings for a decade for his Cities and Memory project, which comprises more than 7,000 samples from some 2,000 contributors covering 130 countries.
Its latest deep-dive offshoot, Sonic Heritage, takes in 270 Unesco sites and includes recordings of crickets chirping in Florence, Tibetan prayers in Kathmandu and the sounds from within India’s Taj Mahal.
