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As a kid coming of age at the tail end of the Cold War, Nate Hofer was aware of the rhetoric and sword-rattling between global superpowers that had played out on the world stage in the early 1980s. That much was evident with a glance at the backs of his grade-school assignment sheets, which he filled with sketches of battle scenes reminiscent of World War II combat with tanks, airplanes and infantry troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When he showed his drawings to his stepfather, seeking praise, he instead got straight talk about the realities of war.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe was like, \u2018Oh, I see what you\u2019re doing,\u2019\u201d says Hofer, f\u201902, who majored in design\/visual communication and painting. \u201c\u2018This isn\u2019t what war is. War is gross and messy and there\u2019s a lot of killing. It\u2019s not glamorous.\u2019\u201d The next war, his stepfather told him, would be fought with nuclear weapons, not guns and tanks. \u201cHe didn\u2019t give me a lot of hope for what World War III would look like,\u201d Hofer recalls, chuckling. \u201cI appreciated that, but he also kind of put my first existential fear into my head, and I think I was probably a little too young to have that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That specter of nuclear war receded as the breakup of the Soviet Union unfolded, leading to arms-reduction treaties between U.S. and Soviet forces and spurring talk of a peace dividend. But by 2019, when Hofer earned a monthlong sabbatical from his job at the global creative digital agency VML, those threats had returned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe \u2018fire and fury\u2019 rhetoric was really heating up, and that brought back some of the old anxieties,\u201d Hofer says. With more nations having nuclear weapons and with many of the old nonproliferation treaties now abandoned, \u201cI hear the term \u2018New Cold War\u2019 with a chill,\u201d he says now. \u201cAll the old feelings are back, but now the stakes are higher because I\u2019m a husband, a father, with my eyes wide open.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The missile silo that guitarist Nate Hofer recorded in had \u201cspooky\u201d vibes and out-of-this-world reverb. \u201cYou play a note and it just rings and rings,\u201d he says, \u201clike a Gregorian chant in a cathedral.\u201d<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hofer decided to focus his creative energies during the sabbatical on a project he\u2019d been \u201csneaking up on\u201d for a while: documenting some of the 150 decommissioned Minuteman Missile sites across Missouri. Using a camera attached to a drone, he took a series of aerial photographs that highlight the different ways these formerly identical sites evolved after the missiles were removed and the underground silos that housed them were filled in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That project, \u201cOne and a Half Acres: Images from America\u2019s Decommissioned Minuteman Missile Silos,\u201d<\/a> won a Global Peace Photo Award in 2021. Hofer traveled from his Overland Park home to Vienna, Austria, to collect the Alfred Fried Peace Medal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey look peaceful, these rectangular pieces of landscape in the American Midwest. Farming land, parking for scrapped cars, areas of wild growth, church square, forest, harvesting yard,\u201d the prize citation reads. \u201cBut beneath them used to be hidden what could once have brought the death of millions: 450 launching platforms for intercontinental ballistic missiles, aimed at the Soviet Union.\u201d Decommissioned after the signing of the START treaty in 1991, these plots \u201cdon\u2019t just look peaceful … now they really are.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But for Hofer, a longtime pedal steel guitarist who has performed, recorded and toured with Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys and other country and indie bands, interest in the topic didn\u2019t stop there. \u201cThe photography came first, but being a musician I always envisioned there would be some kind of soundtrack for this,\u201d he says. \u201cI was thinking it would be pedal steel, but I wasn\u2019t quite sure how that was going to work.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then he discovered an Airbnb listing for a former Atlas Missile site near Wilson, Kansas. The owner let him record in the empty launch chamber, which, unlike the destroyed Minuteman silos, was still intact.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thus was born \u201cDecommissioned,\u201d<\/a> a 22-minute, six-track EP of solo guitar music that Hofer described in an Aug. 2 TEDxKC presentation as \u201cambient pedal steel chill.\u201d Recorded in 2021 and released this May, the evocative, ethereal music makes the most of the 150-foot-deep underground chamber\u2019s unique echo, which creates a trippy sustained reverb that enhances the music\u2019s ethereal feel. A device called an Ebow and an effects pedal that creates a repeating loop contribute further to the otherworldly vibe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Like the photographs, the music\u2014which Hofer describes as \u201cthe magnificent sound of what\u2019s missing\u201d\u2014explores and celebrates what\u2019s not there. Namely, nukes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe missile is obviously gone, thus there is this beautiful reverb chamber to make experimental sounds in,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cDecommissioned,\u201d by Nate Hofer, is available through Apple Music and other streaming services or as a clear vinyl LP from Hammerpress.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The result is a collection of tunes in the tradition of ambient musician Brian Eno that makes the most of the steel guitar\u2019s singular sonic capabilities and the unique recording environment. Fluid glissandos shimmer and cascade, and single notes ring clear and impossibly long, creating a haunting, eerie mood that is more soothing than alarming\u2014a surprise, Hofer allows, to those expecting a gloomier tone from music made in a missile silo. \u201cIt\u2019s experimental. It\u2019s got lots of soft edges. It\u2019s not really jarring,\u201d he says. \u201cIt\u2019s intentionally very chill or maybe even ignorable, but it puts you in a particular frame of mind.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With two kids of his own who are near the same age he was when he learned of the world-ending power of nuclear weapons, Hofer these days tries to strike a more hopeful note. He sees abandoned missile sites not as grim totems of militarization, but as reminders of what\u2019s possible when foes step back from the brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI\u2019m really trying to be as optimistic as possible. I want this ideally to communicate a mindset ultimately for arms negotiation, of being agreeable to diplomacy. I think that starts with being open-minded and in a good mood and optimistic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In other words, chill\u2014not chilled.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steven Hill is associate editor of Crimson & Blue.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Photo by Frank Morris\/NPR-KCUR
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