I've been working on a side project called Soundscapes of Earth — an interactive 3D globe where you can spin the planet, click any country, and instantly hear its "signature" track plus that country's current top 5 songs. Some details: 195+ countries mapped, each with a hand-picked iconic track 30s previews from Apple/iTunes, plus live listener stats from Last.fm The earth sits in a real NASA Blue Marble texture over an actual ESO Milky Way photo, with comets drifting by and a starfield that parallaxes with your cursor Smooth audio cross-fade as you move between countries React side of it: built with React 19 + Next.js (App Router), react-globe.gl for the Three.js layer, and a React Context that owns all the audio/globe state — hover prefetch, click-to-select, and a custom Web Audio engine wired through a useRef singleton so cross-fades survive re-renders. Tailwind + Framer Motion for the UI. No login, no paywall — just click and listen.…