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For this Spring 2018 edition of the Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, NIRRH creator Sam Sebren renews and revives his work-in-progress, the "Ultra Real Cronenberg Remix" for Part 2 of the project. First premiered on Wave Farm radio on October 29, 2016, the ongoing radio theatre collage is made 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 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 Hour includes 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 work challenges 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.