"Silberius de Ura was visiting Santillan del Agua, a village in the region of Burgos, in northern Spain. He was chatting to one of the neighbours next to the town church when the man raised his hand and pointed to one of the bells, calling it the tentenublo bell. He told me that, when played in the right way, the bell had the power to protect against hail storms, either by pushing the storm away or by turning the hail into water, recalls Silberius."
"I was just thinking that the neighbours would find it amusing, he says. He took pictures, recorded the bell sounds and, aided by ChatGPT, coded a very basic website. But when he finished, he realised he couldn't stop there. It was highly addictive, he recalls. And so the website evolved into a collaborative platform where anyone can upload photographs, audio files and information about their local bell towers and signature bell ringing patterns. He called it Tan:talan, a name that evokes the sound of bells"
Silberius de Ura discovered in Santillan del Agua a tentenublo bell believed to protect against hail by pushing storms away or turning hail into water. A musician and multimedia artist, he initially treated the belief as curiosity. Later visits to Covarrubias and other Burgos villages prompted a project to document bells with photographs and recordings. Using ChatGPT to help code a basic site, he developed Tan:talan into a collaborative platform where anyone can upload images, audio and information about local bell towers and ringing patterns. The platform aims to give bells new life on smartphones and preserve regional ringing traditions.
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