9/25/2023 0 Comments Countdowns lyrics sleeping at last![]() ![]() I drove to Kentucky with some friends and had the most transcendent and beautiful, incredible experience I could have imagined. It was good timing because I had the idea to do this Astronomy series, and this was the perfect first event. What did it mean to you to compose this work for a unique North American solar eclipse? ![]() We’ll talk about Atlas in a bit, but let’s first talk about your Astronomy series, starting with the total solar eclipse song. That led me to study as much as I could about the makeup of each planet, just to find musical ideas hidden within each planet, and somehow try to write a song that would do justice to the beauty of our solar system. When I was pulling the concepts together for the Atlas project, I was most excited to write the songs inspired by our solar system. I’ve always been obsessed with the stars, sci-fi, documentaries about space and NASA-everything space-related I’ve been excited about. I’ve always been fascinated by the idea that no matter where we were on the globe, the beautiful universe above would be a consistent and incredibly inspiring source of light. Ryan O’Neal: I’ve been excited about all things space since I was as young as I can remember. We caught up with him just before the release of “Super Blue Blood Moon.” ORBITER: What sparked your interest in astronomy and cosmology? O’Neal unravels a lot of his creative process in his Sleeping at Last podcast, but ORBITER wanted to dig a little deeper. ![]() It’s a pretty remarkable work of art in progress, and we highly recommend giving it a spin.) O’Neal is working on the final round of songs of Year Two, each based on one of the nine personality types from the Enneagram. Year Two ( subscribe here), literally a work in progress, begins with the origins of life and gradually zeroes in on the things that make us uniquely human. He’s also working on phase two of his ambitious three-year Atlas project, which he describes as “an ongoing series of music based on the origins of the universe and life within it.” Year One literally begins before the Earth’s beginnings and gradually zooms into our solar system and, finally, the Earth. Astronomy is just one of many projects O’Neal is juggling these days. ![]()
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