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Nothing Is Real Radio Hour: SS space systems MRI session
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Created by Sam Sebren.
A special broadcast of the Nothing Is Real Radio Hour originally scheduled for April 30, but preempted due to a special live durational broadcast.
This edition of NIRRH features recent recordings using sounds from a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine to create experimental sound compositions by SS space systems, a duo project of Sam Sebren and Sam Rosen. SSss used multiple MRI samples along with electronics, radio tunings, and some bass guitar, and recorded the live performances with no overdubs. MRI scanners use magnetic fields, radio waves, and field gradients to form images of the body. The sounds produced by the machine (in person) can be as loud as 125 decibels. Both Sebren and Rosen have had actual MRI scans which inspired the project.
The Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, created by Sam Sebren broadcasts on WGXC 90.7-FM from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. on the fifth Saturday (of months with 5 Saturdays) as part of Wave Farm's Transmission Arts and Experimental Sound programming. The Nothing Is Real Radio Hourincludes sound and transmission arts works by Sebren, and occasionally works by other artists, both pre-recorded and performed live in the studio.
In a multidisciplinary practice, much of Sebren's recent work has challenged notions of accepted reality in art, advertising, and public spaces. In mediums including sound, Sebren's work blurs actual, imagined, and technological realities as he critiques socio-political rules & regulations in our consumer "culture" and urges his audience to smile and re-think our priorities.