What?

The Casual Artscast is a recorded supplement to the live music show The Casual Arts on bauhaus fm in Weimar Germany. Unlike the live show, however, the focus of the Artscast (as in many podcasts) is on the spoken content. The Funk Doc and the Old Man record a new Artscast every week to ten days and discuss important cultural and political issues from the perspective of Americans living abroad.

Discussions on the show will cover a range of important topics from art and music to language, culture, social problems and even more abstract issues like democracy, media criticism, education, and communication.

Naturally, the Artscasts will also feature the best of hip hop, funk, jazz, soul, blues and other great music from the States.

Why?

There are several reasons:

First, podcasting extends our listening audience beyond the small city of Weimar Germany. Through podcasting, we hope to gain more listeners from around the world, especially from the US.

Another reason is the convenience and flexibility it offers us as well as the listening audience. We the hosts live in different German cities and can't always record a live show together, but podcasting gives us more options to do a show when and where we want. Likewise, listeners download episodes to their computers or MP3 players and play the shows back when they have time.

Finally, the podcast medium is based on Internet technology and therefore offers great opportunities for direct communication between the listeners and the producers of The Casual Artscast. If you have any comments or questions, email us at Artscast@casualarts.net

When?

That's up to you, really. We will try to post a new show every week to ten days, and the first show is already available for listening. Click the links below to find out more about the content and location of each Artscast, and the graphics at the bottom of this page will introduce you to the basics of podcasting.