A sand animation, 130 BCE – 1453 CE. Two minutes. Sound on.
Music: traditional melodies from along the route, synthesised in the browser.
The Silk Road
From Chang’an to Constantinople, 130 BCE – 1453 CE.
Soundtrack, all traditional melodies, synthesised in code:
Mo Li Hua (Jasmine Flower), China · Ambee Dageets, Armenia · Ağır Halay, Anatolia ·
Lamma Bada Yatathanna, Arabic muwashshah · Carnevale di Venezia, Italy · Üsküdar’a Gider İken, Turkey