During a recent visit to the island of Ocracoke, NC, NIRRH creator Sam Sebren made numerous field recordings of the surrounding environment, including the Atlantic ocean and the Pamlico Sound, plus some local radio tuning and other various new, synthesizer and electronics experiments created while there. For this summer 2018 edition of the Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, listeners will hear Sebren's new collage of those sounds. Ocracoke, first named Wokokkon by the Hatterask tribe, is a remote barrier island with a small village (pop. 591) at the end of a 13 mile stretch of National Seashore, and is known historically as a favorite hideout of Blackbeard the pirate (1680-1718).

The Nothing Is Real Radio Hour, created by Sam Sebren, broadcasts on WGXC 90.7-FM from 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 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 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.