Slow-motion Nebraska




Slow-motion Nebraska is a rework of the seminal Bruce Springsteen song Nebraska written in late 1981. Harmonica, guitar and voice parts were selected, processed and overlayed in order to give an unrecognizable though appealling result. The different parts were stretched 30 times as if they had time-traveled 30 years from the moment they were first captured on Springsteen's cassette-tape recorder to finally reach our ears now. As sound artist and researcher Barry Truax observed, extreme time stretching treatments actually bring an effect of distance with sounds slowly coming up and dying away, and renew the whole imagery. Thrilling tremolos, reverberating howls and menacing drones create a frightening soundscape, echoing the darkness of the original song and its bleak serial killer couple story.
This work was created to be part of a collective exhibition in a gallery in Lincoln, NE, but was eventually not selected.