Palomar Performing Arts Department is making its weekly Concert Hour available to the masses by streaming it online.
Weekly selections from the department?s Concert Hours series are now being recorded for podcast so students and the general public can stream or download the content for their listening pleasure.
?It?s really a way for us to reach out to the community and share the series with? everybody,? said Justin Smiley, manager of Performing Arts Production.
The podcasts are being recorded and edited from the free Concert Hours that take place? on campus most Thursdays from 12:30-1:20 p.m. during fall and spring semesters.?Concerts take place in either the Performance Lab (D10) or the O2 Performance Studio. Each hour? acts? as both entertainment and enrichment that focuses on featuring a musical act for its audience. Podcasts will be uploaded weekly.?The first September Concert Hour is already ?online, and two Concert Hours from last year have been posted as well.
The diversity of the musical content is what makes the series renowned across the ?country and even the world, officials said recently.
?Each hour features a professional performance. It can be a string quartet, piano solo,?or even rock music,? said Randy Hoffman, publicity/program coordinator for the Performing? Arts Department. ?The series is remarkably well-respected amongst musicians and organizations, including the Center for World Music. We have notoriety across borders.?
This isn?t the first technological advancement for the department?s Concert Hours. They ?tried live webcasting the series over the course of 10 years, but it didn?t pan out how they ?would have liked.
?It was Chad Ohlheiser who talked to me about switching to podcasts because we?encountered a certain amount of technical problems with a live webcast. A lot of times the ?webcasts wouldn?t load, and the quality was inconsistent. We figured a podcast would be a more stable platform to work from,? Hoffman said.
While the concerts are exciting to view in person, the department believes the podcasts ?will supplement, and even benefit, the live performances.
?The subscriber can actually listen to the podcasts on their own time,? said?Ohlheiser, audio production coordinator for the department. ?It will also give listeners the?opportunity to listen to the pieces a few times, which can be helpful especially if you?re studying music so you can get deeper into the sound.?
With acts that come from not only San Diego, but all over the world, Hoffman and the?department?s ultimate goal of podcasting is to have the music reach a larger audience.
?We?re all about getting more people involved. I want to attempt to show listeners how?big the music world is. Podcasting creates the potential for more people to enjoy Concert Hour?other than Thursday at 12:30,? he said.
Currently, only audio podcasts are available for download. Ohlheiser and the rest of the? staff are hoping to incorporate video in the near future as well, with aspirations that the ?department can assemble a full archive of concerts.
Podcasts are available for free download by searching Palomar College Performing Arts?on iTunes, and can be streamed online through the Palomar Concert Hour website www2.palomar.edu/performingarts/category/concert-hour.
Source: http://the-telescope.com/2012/09/25/performing-arts-concert-hours-now-on-podcast/
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