For this edition of NIRRH, listeners will hear recordings that NIRRH host Sam Sebren made during a recent visit to the island of Ocracoke, NC. Various sounds included in this collage will be radio transmissions captured while driving en route, field recordings, local television news and weather, local AM and FM radio tuning, local Ocracoker Della Williams Gaskill (b. 1937), and various new synthesizer experiments Sebren created during the trip. 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 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 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.