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 Pianoptrip : a key word for a spontaneous action : how to set a piano exactly in the place where you do not expect it to be

Pianotrip is the expression of a vital cry. It's foremost a poetic expression of a piano feeling tired of his small showroom success. A piano which decides to break  off its walls in order to encouter the world. Vibrating  life by all its strings. Applying this definition, we challenge to realise a big Europe tour with a new machine: a Piano-bicycle!   As well Pianotrip  is the result of an observation: the necessity of a radical change towards western europe way of life as regards Green Ecology and Humain Being. A way to try out a question: What's happenig at the very instant in daily europe? Do we take time to communicate at the crossroads of our lifes?   We are ready to live the Odyssey of a piano bike cycling over many lands of Europe. We bet on unforseen and unexpected events giving us the power of transcending our limits. It will be a random inventory of the world around us,a reading of the instant with pictures and sounds with the unifying theme of the piano.

Pianotrip is a green technical challenge because we will manage to transport a piano of 200 kilos all over Europe thanks to a human and solar powered vehicle: a freight tricycle designed with solar panels on the top of it.

Pianotrip will take us on the roads of France and Europe in 2010,we will finally cycle 6500 km through 15 countries in 9 months. Looking forward to this adventure we already tested the project last summer on the roads of France.The welcoming passers-by and the French press gave us the desire to develop this story in Europe.       

This Project has been awarded by the European Fund (youth in Action),the National french Fund (Youth Challenge) and the Regional Fund of Rhône-Alpes.