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Tuesday Night! Oct 9 Hear and There: A KBOO 50th Celebration of the Environment and Sound

Produced for Threshold Shift
  KBOO Celebrates its 50 Years of Sound, Science and Environmental Awareness In a Unique Immersive Sound and Site Collaboration with OMSI Tuesday October 9, 7:30PM OMSI’s Kendall Planetarium In honor of KBOO and OMSI's long-standing commitment to education and environment... Read more

TONIGHT 9 pm: Elephant Path Film and Elephant Bai Soundscape

Produced for Threshold Shift
Portland filmmaker Todd McGrain's EcoFilm Festival Best Feature winning film, Elephant Path/Njaia Njoku, will be having an encore showing tonight at 9pm as the wrap up to the Portland EcoFilm Festival. Mr. McGrain also worked with Bill McQuay, the recent guest host of this ... Read more

Radio Lost and Found for 09/27/18

Airs at: Thu, 09/27/2018 at 10:00pm - Fri, 09/28/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Radio Lost and Found
We heard some of a soon-to-be released album by Portland singer/songwriter Rachel Taylor Brown, justreleased music from Tim Hecker, newly rereleased album from Lol Coxhill via 48 Chairs (from ’81) and brand new material from Lying On Ice that I got just minutes before airti... Read more

Insectuality: The Radio Show

Airs at: Sat, 09/29/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Threshold Shift
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 feat... Read more

Insectuality: The Sequel

Produced for Threshold Shift
  Bill McQuay is guest spotting an entire Threshold Shift long-form episode bringing us brand new radio stories focusing on the all-women research team from Dartmouth College, Laurel Symes and Hannah ter Hofstede. We'll be going deep into the rain forests of Barro Colorado... Read more

BTTE Episode 254: I Can Japan

Airs at: Sun, 09/16/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Back To The Egg
Back To The Egg returns from a short summer hiatus with a new themed show just in time for Fall Membership Drive! "I Can Japan" was co-conceptualized, co-hosted, and co-curated by Todd Bayles. Thanks to everyone who lent a hand with suggestions, or made a request: Christi... Read more

Radio Lost and Found for 09/13/18

Airs at: Thu, 09/13/2018 at 10:00pm - Fri, 09/14/2018 at 12:00am
Produced for Radio Lost and Found
A giant Billy Jack arrives on Earth disturbing communications, while a soy-enriched corndog appears. Captain Rodney Allen Rippy is sent with his spaceship and crew to find the origin of the signal. The corndog rotates tantalizingly, then disappears. Little foulmouthed robot... Read more

Early Sept 2018

Airs at: Sun, 09/09/2018 at 12:00am - 3:00am
Produced for Sounds Unsound
Sounds Unsound brings you new music from the slightly off ot very strange... Read more

New Experimental Releases

Airs at: Mon, 09/10/2018 at 8:00pm - 10:00pm
Produced for A Different Nature
Tonight on ADN we listen from to experimental releases that have come out in the last several months. This will also be a mmbership drive show, and will be hosted by Rolf. Read more

OMSI & KBOO--Insectuality: Love Songs and Death Dances in the Panamanian Rain Forest

Produced for Threshold Shift
  This Wednesday, at OMSI the planetarium, doors will open at 7:45 PM to allow seating for the 8:00 PM immersive experience of Insectuality, a collaboration between Echo Collector Events, KBOO's Threshold Shift, and OMSI. This is a short form program (20 minutes) that will... Read more