Threshold Shift episodes:

• September 29, 2018Insectuality: The Radio Show

  The Press Release:

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--09-24-2018

  In Pursuit of Science and Sound: 

  A Cornell Lab of Ornithology Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellow will be the

  subject of a three-part series on KBOO radio while the sounds, which are the

  focus of that research, are fe...

  ...more

  

  ---

• June 30, 2018A Different Nature

  Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift. I am your host, Nicole Martin, and

  tonight's show is an 50th anniversary card to KBOO. It is also in memory of

  Mr. Richard Francis, the founder of KBOO's A Different Nature still being

  curated and broadcast by the Different Natu...

  ...more

  

  ---

• March 31, 2018This Land Is Our Land

  Hello and welcome back to Threshold Shift. I am your host Nicole Martin. We

  have weathered the winter and now we are back on the air for every

  fifth Saturday of the year bringing you more long-form soundscape

  immersion.

  On this our first episode of 2018, we have a very ...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 27, 2017The Final Frontier Episode

  Hello and welcome to the final episode of Threshold Shift. I am your host,

  Nicole Martin. You have allowed us to take you around the globe across four

  continents and to the dark waters of the Arctic; from tiny Yellow Island in

  the San Juans all the way to Papua New Gu...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 20, 2017The Echo Episode: Sound and Collecting It

  If you missed our last long-form piece this Wednesday be sure to check it out

  on the special page. So this week, in our penultimate episode, I'd like to

  allow our minds to wander a bit and envision ourselves as echo collectors. I

  know the series has focused quite a bit o...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 18, 2017Threshold Shift Long-Play Special: Space-Time

  This is our second and final long-play special. Our first Long Play focused

  on the Dawn Chorus, tracking how soundscapes evolve over time and give a

  deeper sense of place based on what they contain. In this special, we'll be

  tracking time on a global scale, starting with...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 13, 2017Sound Documentation, Preservation and Advocacy

  "What did I have to offer a world that was forgetting? My memory! How could

  my memory help? By offering comparisons! By telling the young what once was.

  By considering our losses! I found the more I remembered, the more I could

  remember! Millions of things."

  --The Ol...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 06, 2017Sound Ecology: Won't You Be My Neighbor?

  One of the major threads of this project is an attempt to connect us as

  listeners to our ears and our lives a little bit more.

  A literal threshold shift is when your hearing perception changes while

  moving between environments with drastically different volume levels. Mos...

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 05, 2017News from the Boo Interview

  On Wednesday, October 4, 2017 Mic Crenshaw, KBOO's station co-manager, was

  kind enough to interview me for the weekly News from the BOO feature that

  he curates along with Delphine Criscenzo.

  Stay tuned for the transcript.

  ...more

  

  ---

• October 04, 2017Threshold Shift Long-Play Special: The Dawn Chorus

  Airs Wednesday, Oct 4 at 12 AM.

  This is the first of our two long-play specials. We devised these shows

  specifically to be a little more experimental in nature, which lets us push

  the limits of how long we can keep humans off the air. It also gives our

  lengthy submissio...

  ...more

  

  ---