I recently ran across this post via Boing Boing about an abandoned skyscraper I encountered in 2009 while staying in Bangkok. The aesthetic really captured my imagination at the time and led me to wondering about it’s rise & subsequent demise - and speculation about its present afterlife as a sort of open source architecture or reclaimed & re-appropriated structure.

The Abandoned Journey post, which documents a bold & unsanctioned urban exploration of the structure, spoke to the atemporal, cyberpunk, organic futures side of me and highlighted my own musical quest to find a sound that, upon listening, evokes a sense of such a postmodern future beyond reach but beckoning through the present & past.

Thus was born a new music project that will produce 5 songs - hip hop instrumentals - inspired by this structure, by the hopes & dreams of its once-future vision, and the hollowed shell of its ruinous fall. In some fundamental way I feel that the Sathorn ghost tower is a bone slate onto which we can project and examine the patterns of our world.

Which is a long-winded & overly-intellectual way of saying that I’ve started making some music inspired by this gloriously abandoned high-rise building in Bangkok. Along the way I’ll be researching the structure and sharing my thoughts & feelings invoked by the exploration.

I’ll be using this Tumblr as a way to document, share, and explain my process. I hope that, in the end, I can make some good music and add to the mythology of the Ghost Tower.