Boston’s History Goes High-Tech
New MP3 Tour of Boston Combines Travel and Technology
Boston, MA – What if you could walk alone through Boston and hear its most dramatic moments come to life around you? A young company called Audissey Guides has combined technology and drama to help you do just that.
It has just released The Boston Audissey, an MP3/iPod walking tour through one of America’s most legendary cities. The tour is also available on CD.
“Now people can experience the Boston Tea Party on their iPod,” said Rob Pyles, a 27-year old Bostonian and founder of Audissey Guides. “For more adventurous travelers, it lets you re-live the city’s greatest events in an intimate way.”
It’s not your typical, staid historical presentation. A pumping musical score and sound effects bring a Hollywood-style drama, as listeners walk to 27 sites. Fourteen Bostonians narrate the tour, providing true local flavor. Narrators include:
· Dicky Barrett of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
· Luigi “Big Lou” DeMarco, an authority on the Italian North End
· Michael Patrick MacDonald, best-selling author of All Souls: a Family Story from Southie
“It’s our hometown,” said Big Lou. “Who can tell its stories better than us?”
The tour focuses largely on the city’s “secret” sites. Listeners walk in the footsteps of fugitive slaves on the Underground Railroad on Beacon Hill, and visit the former headquarters of the Boston Mafia in the North End.
The Boston Audissey lets people experience Boston independently—away from groups and trolleys. The 78-minute tour includes a map that leads listeners to each site, making even the timid tourist feel like a modern-day Indiana Jones.
“It’s exciting to see this generation experience Boston’s history in a new way,” said Pat Moscaritolo, President & CEO of the Greater Boston Convention & Visitor Bureau, which is helping to promote the tour.
“When you walk to these places and hear what someone experienced there, time stands still,” said Pyles. “Even a street corner can become a sacred place.”
The Boston Audissey is available on MP3 for $10 at www.AudisseyGuides.com.
How It Works
The tour is as simple to use as an audio guide in a museum—except you’re walking the streets of the city using your iPod (or any MP3 player). The price of each tour is $10.00, 1 mile long and takes about an hour. You can download the tour as well as a printable map and get more information at www.AudisseyGuides.com.
About Audissey Guides
Audissey Guides is pioneering a new form of travel – iPod audio tours that feature local narrators, original music, and creative sound design. Put in your earbuds and follow the voice of the narrators, hip-hop poets to bikini models, who guide you off the tourist trail through their hometown. Audissey Guides offers audio tours through New Orleans, Miami Beach, Boston, Seattle, and Chicago – with more scheduled for late 2007. Check out www.audisseyguides.com/.
Press Contact
Juliet DeVries
(617) 418-7214
Juliet@audisseyguides.com