The driving experience of a road trip is often forgotten. I want to be able to relive those moments, as it is a core part of the road trip experience. Road Echoes aims to capture the essence of a road trip by linking music to locations.
Using Spotify and Google Maps data, Road Echoes records the music played during your road trip and stores this on a 3D terrain disc. This interactive disc can be placed on a music player. This will play music associated with each location. Between songs, an AI narrator provides interesting information about the surroundings at the time you previously listenend to that song, such as details about an upcoming town and personal anecdotes.
Road Echoes stimulates reminiscence by linking music, narration, and location, allowing you to relive your road trip memories in a unique way. This approach addresses the lack of a distinct material form for location history and explores how location data can support reminiscence. Through this prototype, I aim to show that making location history data more interactive can help you relive the road trip experience.