Hello there. Thank you so much for pressing play. This is the Sleeping at Last Podcast and my name is Ryan O'Neill.

I make music under the name Sleeping at Last. And this podcast is where I have this opportunity to get to share all the little details and the things that go into the music that I make.

And I get to tell you about the new songs that are coming out and just the intentionality and the meaning behind my music.

So it means a great deal to me that you are curious and would be interested in listening to this podcast. So thanks so much for for me and with me today.

This episode is going to be a little bit more brief than previous episodes. I just wanted to record something to share a little bit about this new piece of music that I released called Parade of Planets.

The official title is June 24, 2022 Parade of Planets. And this song belongs to my Astronomy Series of Music. And if you are unfamiliar with what that is, my Astronomy Series is inspired by astronomical events.

So when really really cool things happen in space that we can observe, I try to write a soundtrack to those events.

And so for this one, there's the Planet Serial Alignment that just happened if you're listening to it, it happened last night because this episode comes out on the 24th.

We're basically, we can see our solar system on display in sequence. And so the last time this happened, I believe was in 2004. And it won't happen again until 2040.

So anyway, I thought the Parade of Planets was a worthy event to try my hand at writing a piece of music for.

Again, if you are unfamiliar, my Astronomy Series is where I write about the macro and my Adam's Series is where I write about the micro.

And then my Atlas, which is sort of my main thing, that is everything in between. It is the human experience of both the macro and the micro.

So let's listen to Parade of Planets before I tell you a little bit about what went into it.

So here is June 24, 2022 Parade of Planets.

A while back as part of my Atlas 1 series, I wrote a song for each of the planets in our solar system.

And so the beginning of this song, Parade of Planets, you hear this kind of orchestrotuning effect.

And that's made up of clips of each of my planet songs. And they are actually spaced out in the same sequence that they appear in the in the night sky as part of the Parade of Planets.

So each little piece of those planet songs were tuned to the pitch of the song and kind of stretched and kind of squeezed together to create this orchestra tuning.

There's also an actual orchestra tuning in there as well to kind of pull the whole idea together.

But here's a couple examples of each of those individual clips and how they are pitched and kind of mutated.

Here's the clip from my song Mercury.

And then Venus.

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