“Static Radar” by Conner Goertzen | HN Live

words by Michael Todd | photos by Kat Buchanan

Conner Goertzen says playing music in Nebraska is a bit like being a tumbleweed.

He says opportunties come by every so often, but staying put in this state speaks to a Nebraska musician's work ethic. It's an honest answer to a question we've asked many Nebraskans in the past few years. Usually, the response covers the community of interconnected artists. Usually, it's positive.

We hope that with events such as Take Cover — at which Goertzen played on Jan. 19 — Nebraska music is covered as well as it possibly can be, making musicians more like tall, tall trees and less like tumbleweeds. Watch and listen as Goertzen plays his self-made instrument, mashing songs by Prince of Apple Island and Sputnik Kaputnik together to create his "tasty mix" as DJ Foam Form:

Conner Goertzen of Foam Form performs "Static Radar" by Prince of Apple Island, mixed with Sputnik Kaputnik at Hear Nebraska's Take Cover event on Jan. 19, at the The Zoo Bar in Lincoln, Neb.

edited by Kat Buchanan

audio engineer/mixed by Ian Aeillo

cameras:
Kat Buchanan
Nickolai Hammar
Michael Todd

Michael Todd is Hear Nebraska's managing editor. He grew up in a place where old tires caught tumbleweeds as they rolled across sand. Reach Michael at michaeltodd@hearnebraska.org.