Travel of Giovanni Miani towards the sources of the Nile

Giovanni Miani began his voyage on May 1, 1859, from Cairo after making arrangements to finance the expedition with French traders. The account of the trip is preceded by other notes dating from the years 1830, 1842, 1854, 1856, 1857 and 1858. --- Echos - Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues is a WebApp connected with a relational database collecting literary descriptions, scores and images of musical events produced during travels around the world, from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century. Echos - which means sound in ancient Greek - also includes descriptions of sounds from the natural environment. As the climate changes modified the soundscape of cities and geographical areas, history and politics tailored the human musicality during the centuries. Travel narratives offer precious clues to reconstruct the musical ecosystems of oral and written cultures of the past - now ignored or disappeared - contributing to our knowledge of the human musicality and to the preservation of the world natural and cultural heritage. Echos - Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues is an innovative green database supported by the funding PON Research and Innovation of the Italian government; it aims to map lost musical and sound ecosystems of the world as part of the human heritage.

乔瓦尼·米亚尼（Giovanni Miani）于1859年5月1日从开罗启程，此前他已与法国商人商定探险的资金筹措事宜。这段旅行记述之前附有1830年、1842年、1854年、1856年、1857年和1858年的其他笔记。——《Echos——旅行记中的声音生态系统》（Echos - Sound Ecosystems in Travelogues）是一款连接关系数据库（relational database）的网络应用程序（WebApp），该数据库收集了14至19世纪全球旅行期间产生的音乐事件的文学描述、乐谱和图像。Echos在古希腊语中意为“声音”，还包含对自然环境声音的描述。几个世纪以来，气候变化重塑了城市与地理区域的声景（soundscape），历史与政治则雕琢了人类的音乐性。旅行叙事为重建过去口头与书面文化中已被忽视或消失的音乐生态系统提供了珍贵线索，有助于深化我们对人类音乐性的认知，以及推动世界自然与文化遗产的保护。《Echos——旅行记中的声音生态系统》是由意大利政府PON研究与创新基金（PON Research and Innovation）支持的创新性绿色数据库，旨在绘制作为人类遗产一部分的全球已消失音乐与声音生态系统图谱。