SoundTransit takes you travelling like Wayfaring, but the journey is for your ears. SoundTransit is a collaborative community dedicated to sharing field recordings and phonography from around the world — folks who've recorded ambient sound from their environments in different locations across the globe upload their often wonderfully unintentional soundscapes for others to share. On the site you can book audio "journeys" by selecting a start point, end point and how many "stopovers" you'd like. The result is a mashed up MP3 file you can download or play in your browser which contains sounds from points along the path, each with an attendant description and artist information. Everything is Creative Commons Attribution licensed, so remixing and reuse is encouraged with attribution to the contributing phonographer. This site is a very well done execution of a great idea, and will end up having an appeal beyond the already active global phonography community.

[Via LiveWeb]