Last summer, I teamed up with good friend and industrial design student Joe Bradford for an experimental music project. We called ourselves Broken Flowers and wrote, recorded, and released one song every week. We started at the end of June and continued until September. The result was our self-titled first album.
The process pushed us to not only create something new every week, but also force us to release it. I’m proud of what we accomplished, and I’m excited to announce the next step in Broken Flowers.
Joe and I have started working on new material, but this time, in yet another experimental move, we are taking a more traditional route. Instead of writing, recording, releasing a song on a weekly basis, we’ll take an extended period of time to write and record the songs, and then more time to mix/master, followed by a proper release. We’re looking at something more along the lines of EP, about four or five songs.
On New Year’s Eve, we wrote, recorded and released a song just before midnight. The appropriately working title – “Dick Clark” – is a taste of what’s to come.
I'm Ryan Rivard, a student filmmaker at Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY.
