Although it's most likely obvious by the title, I started producing this track when I was working in Marion, Indiana. It might not be evident upon listening, but I really enjoyed it there, mostly because it was different from what I'm use to. The campus I was living at for a week had a very calming energy about it.

I found myself wandering around aimlessly late at night, observing the juxtaposition of modern campus buildings to the trailer parks circling our little collegiate city. At times, I'd venture down the narrow gravel streets that ran between these small rundown homes. I would create for myself the residents that lived there based on the items they left in patches of grass outside. Cigarette buts, plastic lawn chairs, withering plants, and broken bottles. There was a sort of numbness to it all.

On Indiana Streets

Wake Forest University is a little private college in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In the music building on campus, I was extremely thankful to find soundproof rehearsal spaces with upright pianos.

One day of the days I was there, I found a break in the day to use my phone to record a sample of some simple chords and melodies. The result was a lo-fi, distant piano track that I couldn't help but admire.



My environment, once again, played a big role in my creative flow. The forest and this unsettling nostalgia I feel from time to time both run deep in this track. I'm not sure if I'll ever been in a position to write anything like it again.

This Is Wake

Denton, Texas was my last trip before I was released to return home indefinitely. Up until the day we set off for Texas Woman's University, I had somehow managed to never fly on an airplane. I will never forget my first experience flying through, over, and around cumulus clouds and looking down upon the ever changing terrain.

When we arrived, I unpacked my belongings and started working on this song. I reflected on my summer thus far; The good, the bad, and everything in between. For the most part, I simply longed to get back on the plane to return home. After I finished the song, I listened to it several times and daydreamed about landing in Atlanta, driving to my house, and falling asleep in my own bed.

The Borderlands