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For this special Halloween 2023 edition of the Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, NIRRH creator Sam Sebren presents a remastered version of his work-in-progress, the "Ultra Real Cronenberg Remix”. First premiered on Wave Farm radio on October 29, 2016, the ongoing radio theatre collage is made with a script using hundreds of clips of characters' dialogue from eight different movies by Canadian film director David Cronenberg. Mixed with field recordings and electronic soundtracks made by Sebren, the result is a new, quasi-narrative "movie" that blurs reality in search of some new level of truth. Obtuse money issues, political conspiracies, drugs, dreams and hallucinations, technology, our bodies, riots, war, and psychological examinations are all melded together using Cronenberg's oeuvre as a jumping-off point into some whole other abyss of mysterious characters and sounds living in a transmogrified reality that questions its own existence as a giant game, all in homage to Cronenberg's uncompromising work.

"Because of our necessity to impose our own structure of perception on things, we look at ourselves as being relatively stable. But, in fact, when I look at a person I see this maelstrom of organic, chemical, and electron chaos; volatility and instability, shimmering, and the ability to change and transform and transmute," David Cronenberg, on his characters' transformations.

The "Nothing Is Real Radio Hour," created by Sam Sebren, is broadcast quarterly on WGXC 90.7-FM and at wavefarm.org/listen on the fifth Tuesday. The "Nothing Is Real Radio Hour" includes sound and transmission artworks by Sebren, and occasionally works by other artists, both pre-recorded and performed live in the studio.