Here’s a production note about the human connection scene that “got away” from my song “The Flooded Dream”—a song about resilience after disaster.
When I first made “The Flooded Dream,” I wanted it to do a few things:
Release my first recorded song.
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And importantly, I wanted to learn by doing. Not because I was trying to make mistakes, but because I knew there would be lessons in the process. I wanted to go through every step that comes with releasing music and make those early mistakes now, so future releases can be stronger because of what I’m learning.
One thing that got sacrificed along the way was the visual storytelling for the song. I wanted the visuals to reflect the abstract side of natural disaster and the resilience of people, but I also wanted to show actual people and tell more of that human story. There just wasn’t enough time to do that for my first wide release.
That’s part of what this Listening Room gives —a place to come back, document those ideas, and sometimes fill in the pieces that had to be left behind.
So with that, here’s a clip of a scene that didn’t make it into the video. It was cut for continuity, but to me it still carries a lot of the heart of what the song is really saying.
Video clip: “The Flooded Dream” — the scene that got away.
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