| Published in : ...www... Written by Ana Galarraga on 2009-09-24 11:46 |
Fancy travelling with your eyes closed? Through sounds, for example? Or do you prefer to keep your eyes wide open and travel seeing absolutely everything and experiencing everything as if you lived on the spot? You decide: go to Soundtransit or else click on Trourist.
Football fans singing and chanting "oe-oe" and "Donde está, no se ve, la afición del San Mamés" [Bilbao Athletic football club supporters' chant and song] and an argument in French at a motorway toll booth. Anyone who decides to visit our country with Soundtransit will come across this in the Basque Country.
Further afield there are songs, city noises, sirens, the barking of a dog, domestic sounds... Sounds, voices and music, you can find everything in any corner of the world. And Soundtransit gives you the chance to listen to all these things. What is more, enter where you want to travel from and to, and you will be able to travel in these places through the sounds.
It has a Creative Commons licence and anyone can take part, artists as well as wannabe artists. That's right, anyone can add a sound. That way the virtual traveller will visit another place on his or her sound trip.
Jokin Bereziartu, Mikel Cortés, Xabier Albeniz and Imanol Abad were mates at university. Now they have set up Trourist, and are colleagues. And they're still friends.
Trourist offers the chance to travel for real. When people travel, these guys want them "to experience places rather than just visit them". At the end of the day, the aim is that when people go somewhere, they don't feel like tourists, but feel as if they have gone there invited by someone who lives there. To achieve this, Trourist users make recommendations. For example, a girl talks about the experience she had in the mountains close to Anso, a boy recommends a restaurant in London, another one directs us to a bar in Berlin...
The creators of Trourist have a philosophy for travel based on experiences and emotions, which they are keen to spread. So before launching Trourist they set up the Experienceless initiative. If this philosophy appeals to you, go to
www.experienceless.org
And have a good trip!
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