For this edition of NIRRH, host Sam Sebren gets into some dark ambient, deep listening sounds by two artists working decades apart who both utilized radio transmissions in their compositions. "Stealth" (Cold Spring, 2012) by Sleep Research Facility, aka Kevin Doherty, is made from recordings captured inside a U.S. Air Force base hangar in England while a B-2 Stealth Bomber was in for maintenance. Listeners will hear examples from the original source recordings as well as from Doherty's re-mixed, layered compositions using the source sounds. We will also hear a piece by Minoy, aka Stanley Keith Bowsza, legendary sound/noise/cassette artist (1951-2010) who often used short wave radio in his compositions. From the cassette "Physical Radio" (Sound of Pig, 1988) we will hear side one.

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.