When she returned to Thailand, she met with a really close friend, who’s also a good synth player, and formed X0809. During that time, she gained interest in electronic music and also learned to do it. Although she focused on visual arts, her stay in New York also led to a growing hunger to make new music. In New York, Note scored an internship in a design studio as a requirement for her communication design degree in Chulalongkorn University. And as an artist, I really value originality and being myself, you know?” I have to sing what they tell me to sing. “I have to wear what they tell me to wear.
“They kind of shaped us into what they want us to be,” she says. Soon enough Note knew that the pop star life wasn’t for her. After the competition, she carved out a career as a pop star. Note rose to fame when she finished second in Thai singing reality show, The Star. But for Note, X0809 is a whole new identity she can play around with and make her own. X0809 could just as well be an insignificant combination of characters possibly found on fading stickers behind appliances or tags inside clothes. In the past, sometime in the early 2000s, X0809 could have been a coveted cellphone model.
If this were the future where there are flying cars and steel, the name could belong to an assembly line droid, like a meaningless name assigned for the sake of invevntory. X0809, as a name, sounds too technical and even trivial. With a few hours left before they have to be in the airport to fly back to their home country of Thailand, I take them to a coffee shop in the streets of Poblacion. Wearing a printed polo top, jeans, cheetah print booties, and a cute little Prada knapsack, she greets me with a big smile, introducing her manager, Bass. 11 A.M., the Sunday morning after The Rest Is Noise’s Summer Noise, I wait for Note Panayanggool, who also goes by the moniker X0809, in her hotel lobby.
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