Falling Leaves, Rising Moon

Metamere

Made for the Record Every Month Challenge for October 2024. On a sunny, warm, and windy autumn afternoon, I took my Deluge groovebox outside for a change and admired the golden maple trees swaying in the wind and dropping leaves with the waxing moon slowly rising above, which became the inspiration for the track that I sketched out over the course of an hour. I wanted to use the Boards of Deluge patches more, and these two seemed to capture the mood well. I then fleshed it out with more percussion and arranged it in the studio over several sessions, mixing it fully in the Deluge, with some compression and hall reverb applied in the Model 12 mixer. It captures my feelings of the fall season in Minnesota. It is alternately wondrous and difficult, joyful and bittersweet. The eventual loss makes one appreciate the temporary beauty all the more.