Busan, South Korea
International Airspace
While I locked myself in the apartment in Busan in agony waiting for the days to pass so I could fly to Thailand, I did the best thing I can do in these situations and started producing music. At first, it was garbage, but I kept it because I felt there was something there. I started to think of my excitement for visiting Thailand and channeled it.
By the time I left Busan, I had a seed of a track. The plane ride was five hours. I fought strong resistance and pulled out my laptop and keyboard to continue the track on the plane. This time I named it, Excitation, which was short for Excitation for Thailand. For two or three hours, nothing was happening. The production was vanilla. A few hours in, everything came to me.
I spent the rest of the plane ride doing the true production work, which comes to you when you least expect it, usually after a lot of patience, and takes an hour or less. It’s a flow state. When I wrote this track, I was a complete novice with no training in music production. I didn’t know how to use anything but Ableton stock sounds. It sounds like video game music.
It is still one of my favorite tracks to this day. I don’t post my music anywhere but I will now so people know how music ties into my story.
Thailand itself is one of my least favorite countries. Fortunately I didn’t know that at the time of production since I had never been.
Here’s the track. My friends call it video game music.