Wadi Rum. Jordan. As Bedouins living in the desert
Channel: РУСЛАН ФАРШАТОВ I Трэвел-шоу ЗВУКИ ВСЮДУ
Date: 2015-03-22

Project of the travel show “Big Bag. Acoustic journey with Troubadour*” http://www.youtube.com/bigbagtv

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* - Troubadours - composers and performers of poetry and songs during Middle Ages. They made their living in a variety of ways, lived and travelled in many different places. The classical period of troubadour activity lasted from about 1170 until about 1220, when the lyric art of the troubadours reached the height of its popularity. 

SLOGAN OF THE PROJECT
“The world is a big bag!” – analogue of the phrase “The world is a small place!”, which is used to show your surprise when you meet familiar people in an unexpected place or another city.

UNIQUENESS OF THE PROJECT
1. Representation of a country/city/village by “sounds”, that is by all possible acoustic details, which are not noticed by common tourists.
2. The host of the project – Troubadour. A young musician, travelling around the world with his acoustic guitar. He stutters on the letter “F”, wears glasses, a bow-tie and a hat.
3. Alongside with the guitar the host always takes a vintage phone handset, connected to an up-to-date smartphone. He uses it to make calls to famous people, who have information about unique acoustic places in this or that city. Troubadour calls them to confirm the location of the sonorous places. In the Russian language the phone handset is “trouba” and thus there appears wordplay in the name “TROUBAdour”.

CONCEPT OF THE PROJECT
Troubadour – the host of the project – comes to a place, where he has never been. He doesn’t know the language, but he has to solve several tasks by all means:
1. To find in an unfamiliar country/city/village:
• the loudest place
• the quietest place
• a unique sound, which is specific for this very corner of the world. And it can be not only a sound of a national instrument! It can be roar of the streets, river or waterfall, striking of a clock on the main place of the city, hum of the market or warble of a rare bird, chiming of bells or shouts of children during a national outdoor game. National speech melody, in fact, can also refer here.
2. To find a compatriot in a foreign country, who will tell/show/prove why this place is a must to visit.
3. To learn the most famous folk song of the place in the native language with the help of the new friend and local people and to try to earn money by performing it. This also works as one of the image details of Troubadour, strolling young musician.

TRANSMEDIA COMPONENT
Simultaneously with the start of the TV project “Big Bag” there will be launched an internet project aimed at search of the most sonorous places on the planet. It is planned that people – internet users, who love their cities and countries – will start to record and upload videos showing the acoustic places on a special portal. Thus, in a certain time there will be formed an audio encyclopedia with the most interesting sounds – both artificial and natural and absolutely unique.

“SECOND LIFE” OF THE PROJECT
Creation of a website “Audioplanet” with an electronic map of the audioworld, where just by one click you will be able to find and listen how the world sounds. There are also such variants as publication of an audiobook, creation of a dance album with the help of the audioworld map, performance of festivals, etc.

MISSION OF THE PROJECT
“Only with the help of foreign culture and foreign language you get a more profound and finer understanding of your own culture and your native language”

СONTACTS
+7 906 37 37 546
bigbagtv@gmail.com