ArtCast is folly’s new ongoing series of podcasting programmes - a platform for public access to new and innovative sound art.

The launch of ArtCast coincides with VELOCITY - a stunning new arts festival along the coastal rail route around Morecambe Bay in England’s North West. folly invited Sonic Arts Network - to join them in the selection of podcasts from an international open call. You can hear submissions from artists working with sound, experimental musicians and composers, writers and performance artists, both locally and from across the world.
The podcasts, chosen to complement the VELOCITY experience, can be downloaded to your mp3 player and enjoyed during train journeys around the Morecambe Bay area, from the comfort of your own home, or at any other location in the world.

This series not only explores the practical delivery of sound art on the internet, but also the very nature of communication through broadcasting; from the transmissions of a cosmonaut beyond our own atmosphere, to communicating ideas about spirituality through frequency, and through inviting sounds from our computers to occupy our environment as a backdrop to our own lives. You will hear (and become the proud owners of) strange music, stories and electronic noises, and all of them have the potential to change your life.

A new edition will be released every Thursday for 7 weeks from the 4th of October.